Jadyn Aliana Matthews (born 16 November 1999) is an American-born Jamaican

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a defender for

Cornell Big Red The Cornell Big Red is the informal name of the sports teams, and other competitive teams, that represent Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York. The university sponsors 37 varsity sports, as well as numerous intramural and club team ...

and the Jamaica women's national team.

International career

Matthews represented Jamaica at the

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 9th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central ...

. She made her senior debut in a 1–2 loss win against Venezuela on 19 July 2018.

Personal life

Matthews is related to Olympic gold-medalist

Don Quarrie Donald O'Riley Quarrie CD (born 25 February 1951) is a Jamaican former track and field athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the 1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he was the gold medallist in the Olympic 200 meters and silver med ...

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* 1999 births Living people Jamaican women's footballers Women's association football defenders Women's association football midfielders Jamaica women's international footballers Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Sportspeople from Pembroke Pines, Florida Soccer players from Broward County, Florida American women's soccer players Cornell Big Red women's soccer players African-American soccer players American sportspeople of Jamaican descent 21st-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American women {{US-footy-midfielder-stub