Kelly Maree Golebiowski (born 26 July 1981) is a former Australian soccer player who played at national league level in Australia and the United States.
Playing career
Club career
Golebiowski played in the Australian
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 thr ...
for
NSW Sapphires.
Between 2001 and 2002 Golebiowski played for
Hampton Roads Piranhas in the
USL W-League
The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, pl ...
.
In 2003 Golebiowski played 19 matches for the
Washington Freedom
Washington Freedom was an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Germantown, Maryland, that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The Freedom was founded in 2001 as a member of the defunct Women's Uni ...
in the final season of the
Women's United Soccer Association
The Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals. Founded in February 2000, the league began its first season in April 2001 with eight teams in the Un ...
(WUSA).
After her stint with the Freedom, she rejoined the Piranhas.
Golebiowski later returned to the Washington Freedom, who had joined the
USL W-League
The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, pl ...
.
She played for
Sydney FC during the
2008–09 season of the
Australian W-League.
Golebiowski joined the
Central Coast Mariners
Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional association football, soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League, A-League Men, under ...
for the 2009 season.
International career
In July 1996, Golebiowski made her debut for
Australia as a 14-year-old.
She represented Australia at the
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup was the third edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for women's national soccer teams. It was hosted as well as won by the United States and took place from June 19 to July 10, 1999, at ...
,
2000 Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
, and
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.
References
1981 births
Living people
Australian people of Polish descent
Australian Institute of Sport soccer players
Australian women's soccer players
Central Coast Mariners FC (A-League Women) players
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Olympic soccer players of Australia
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Australia women's international soccer players
Soccer players from Sydney
Women's association football midfielders
People educated at Westfields Sports High School
Hampton Roads Piranhas players
Australian expatriate women's soccer players
Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
Washington Freedom players
Women's United Soccer Association players
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