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

. 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 {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub