Emma Rose Regan (born January 28, 2000) is a

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player who plays as a defender for Danish club

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Early life

Regan began playing youth soccer at age six with Burnaby Girls SC. She later played for Mountain United FC, before joining the Vancouver Whitecaps REX program. She also played for the British Columbia provincial team. She also represented BC at the

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. She served as the Vancouver Whitecaps captain since 2014 and was named "Most Promising Player" in 2015, also being named the

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Youth Player of the Year in 2015.

College career

She began attending the

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in 2018 playing for the women's soccer team. She was named to the 2018 Top Drawer Soccer National Preseason Best XI Freshman Team, the 2019 Preseason All-

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Conference Team, and the 2019 All-Big 12 Conference Second Team. She scored her first goal on October 9, 2020 against the

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. In 2021 and 2022, she was again named to the All-Big 12 Conference Second Team and was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team in 2021. In 2022, she was named the 2022 Big 12 Conference Soccer Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year and was a four time Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

Club career

In 2018, she played with

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in the

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, scoring two goals. In 2022, she joined

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. She won the league title that season with Varsity. In January 2023, she signed her first professional contract with Danish club

. She made her debut on March 11, in a league cup match against

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. On May 5, 2023, she scored her first goal for the club against

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. She won the 2022-23 league title with the club in her first season.

International career

She debuted for the Canada U15 team at the 2014 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship, helping Canada win the championship, being named a tournament all-star. She has also represented the Canada U17 and Canada U20. She debuted with the U20 team as a 15 year old in 2015, and played as a 16 year old at the

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. She was again called up for the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. Regan earned her first call-up to the Canada senior team in June 2018, ahead of a friendly against

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. She was then called up for the

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, making her senior debut against

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on October 8, 2018. In October 2023, she was called up to the senior team again, for the first time since her last call-up five years earlier.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Regan, Emma 2000 births Living people Canadian women's soccer players Canada women's youth international soccer players Canada women's international soccer players Women's association football defenders Texas Longhorns women's soccer players Soccer people from British Columbia Sportspeople from North Vancouver Canadian expatriate women's soccer players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States TSS FC Rovers players Women's Premier Soccer League players League1 British Columbia women's players Nautsa’mawt FC players HB Køge (women) players