Ruthny Mathurin (born 14 January 2001) is a

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

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who plays as a defender for the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the

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and for the Haiti women's national team.

Early life

Born in

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...

, Haiti, Mathurin is one of three siblings born to her parents, Denise and Hector. She grew up in

Gressier Gressier (; ht, Gresye) is a List of communes of Haiti, commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest (department), Ouest Departments of Haiti, department of Haiti. It has 25,947 inhabitants. According to the CAGH – Committee for ...

, a

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located just west of Port-au-Prince. At the under-12 level, she was identified and moved to the Camp Nous, the training center of the

Haitian Football Federation The Haitian Football Federation (FHF) (french: Fédération Haïtienne de Football, ht, Federasyon Foutbòl Ayisyen) is the governing body for association football, football in Haiti. The FHF is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game ...

International career

Mathurin first represented

at the 2016 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship. She then stepped up to the under-17 level, at which she played at the

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship was the 6th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organized by CONCACAF for the women's under-17 national teams of the North, Central ...

. Mathurin made her senior debut for

during

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. On 3 October 2019, in the Group C opener against

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, she started in a 10–0 victory.

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* 2001 births Living people Haitian women's footballers Footballers from Port-au-Prince Women's association football utility players Haiti women's international footballers Haitian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Haitian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns women's soccer players 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Haiti-women-footy-bio-stub