Heather Ann Garriock (born 21 December 1982) is an Australian former
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player and coach. Garriock played as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
in a career based mostly in Australia. Her last stint as a player was for
Western Sydney Wanderers
Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier ...
of the Australian
W-League. Garriock played 130 matches for the
Australian women's national team, appearing at two
Olympic football tournament
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s and three
FIFA Women's World Cup
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s.
Playing career
Club career
Garriock began her career playing football in Australia. She played for
Marconi Stallions
Marconi Stallions Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Fairfield, Sydney, New South Wales. The club has been crowned Australian champion four times.
The Stallions are the soccer team of Club Marconi, a social ...
,
NSW Sapphires, and
Queensland Sting before moving overseas.
She signed with
Adirondack Lynx
Adirondack Lynx is an American women’s soccer team, founded in 2005. The team is a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League, the third tier of women’s soccer in the United States and Canada. The team plays in the North Division of the Ea ...
of
Women's Premier Soccer League
The Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) is an amateur women's soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is the top amateur league for women's soccer in the United States soccer pyramid, below only National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). T ...
in 2006. She made six appearances in 2006 before returning to the
Australian National Team. In 2007, she made a further five appearances. In total, she made 11 appearances for Adirondack Lynx, while scoring 10 goals and chipping in eight assists.
Garriock was on the move once again in 2008, playing for
Fortuna Hjørring
Fortuna Hjørring is a women's association football team from Hjørring, Denmark. The club was formed in 1966 and play in green and white. Their biggest achievement in European football was reaching the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup final where they ...
in Denmark, before moving back to Australia to play for
Sydney FC
Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...
in the Australian
W-League.
In 2009, Garriock was selected for the
Women's Professional Soccer
Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 sea ...
league in the United States. In the
2008 WPS International Draft, she was picked 12th overall by
Chicago Red Stars
The Chicago Red Stars are a professional women's soccer club based in Bridgeview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A founding member of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league, they have played in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) sin ...
. For the inaugural
2009 Women's Professional Soccer season, she appeared for Chicago in 5 games (0 starts, 89 total minutes) and recorded an assist. It was announced on 30 September 2009 that Chicago had waived their option for a second year, thus making Garriock a free agent.
She returned to her previous team,
Sydney FC
Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...
, following her release from Chicago.
In October 2013, Garriock joined
Western Sydney Wanderers
Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier ...
.
Garriock retired from national league football after the 2013–14 W-League season.
International career
Garriock first represented the
Australia
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in October 1999 in a friendly against
China
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at 16 years old. She has represented her country in the
2000 Summer Olympics
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in Sydney as well as the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in Athens.
She has also appeared for Australia in the
2003
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and
2007
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editions of the
FIFA Women's World Cup
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. She scored two goals in 2003 and one in 2007.
In 2013, Garriock was selected for a national team tour that included a match against the United States, though did not play in the match. After the tour, Football Federation Australia denied a claim from Garriock to cover childcare expenses for her young daughter. A subsequent appeal to the
New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal
The New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) is a civil law and administrative law tribunal in New South Wales established by statute on 1 January 2014.
It replaced and aggregated the matters of a number of disparate tribunals.
...
was unsuccessful.
Coaching career
Garriock was appointed senior head coach of the
Sydney Uni SFC women's first team in 2014.
In 2017, Garriock was appointed an assistant coach of
Australia
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for the
2017 Algarve Cup
The 2017 Algarve Cup was the 24th edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place from 1 to 8 March.
Format
The twelve invited teams were split into three groups that played a rou ...
.
On 22 May 2017, Garriock was appointed head coach of
Canberra United
Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the southern Canberra suburb of Wanniassa, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and t ...
. She was let go in February 2020.
Personal
Garriock was born in
Campbelltown in the western suburbs of Sydney. She attended
Westfields Sports High School
, motto_translation = Courage and Valour
, established =
, location = 406A Hamilton Road, Fairfield West, Western Sydney, New South Wales
, country = Australia
, type = Government-funded co-educational comprehensive a ...
.
Garriock started the Macarthur Youth Football Academy, based in the southwestern Sydney area of
Camden.
In 2003, Garriock's brother, Nathan, died from injuries sustained during an altercation at a party he attended in Camden, NSW.
Career statistics
International goals
''Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first.''
Honours
Playing
Club
;
NSW Sapphires
*
Women's National Soccer League
The Women's National Soccer League (WNSL) was Australia's top women's association football league. Originally known as the Ansett Australia Summer Series for sponsorship reasons, the WNSL began in 1996 consisting of six clubs and continued thro ...
Championship: 1999–2000
;
Fortuna Hjørring
Fortuna Hjørring is a women's association football team from Hjørring, Denmark. The club was formed in 1966 and play in green and white. Their biggest achievement in European football was reaching the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup final where they ...
*
Danish Women's Cup
The Danish Women's Cup, or Sydbank Kvindepokalen (previously 3F Cup) for sponsorship reasons, is the national women's football cup competition in Denmark and was first held in 1993.
List of finals
The list of finals:
By titles
See also
* ...
: 2007–08
;
Sydney FC
Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...
*
W-League Premiership:
2009
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,
2010–11
*
W-League Championship:
2009
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;
LdB FC Malmö
*
Damallsvenskan
The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...
:
2011
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*
Svenska Supercupen
Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season.
In the event of a ...
: 2011
Country
;
Australia
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*
OFC Women's Championship
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:
2003
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*
AFC Women's Asian Cup
The AFC Women's Asian Cup (formerly known as the AFC Women's Championship) is a quadrennial competition in women's football for national teams which belong to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It is the oldest women's international football ...
:
2010
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Individual
*
Julie Dolan Medal
The Julie Dolan Medal is awarded annually to the player voted to be the best player in the highest women's soccer league in Australia. The medal has been presented for players in the W-League and previously the Women's National Soccer League (WN ...
: 2002–03
Coaching
;
Sydney Uni SFC
*NPL NSW Women's 1 Coach of the Year: 2014
References
External links
*
Australia player profileOfficial websiteSydney FC player profileWomen's Professional Soccer player profileAdirondack Lynx player profile
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Living people
1982 births
Australian women's soccer players
Sydney FC (A-League Women) players
Western Sydney Wanderers FC (A-League Women) players
Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark
Chicago Red Stars players
Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
FIFA Century Club
Olympic soccer players of Australia
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Australia women's international soccer players
Soccer players from Sydney
Women's association football midfielders
Adirondack Lynx players
Women's Premier Soccer League players
Damallsvenskan players
FC Rosengård players
Women's Professional Soccer players
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Fortuna Hjørring players
Sportswomen from New South Wales