Shannon Marie DeVoe (née McDonnell; born 28 September 1984) is a 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 ...

midfielder, who represented the

Republic of Ireland women's national football team ) , Association = Women's Football Association of Ireland , Confederation = UEFA (Europe) , Coach = Vera Pauw , Captain = Katie McCabe , Most caps = Emma Byrne (134) , Top scorer = Olivia ...

. On the club level she most recently played for

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 ...

(WPSL) club

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 ...

, having previously played in the W-League with

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and Chicago Gaels.

College career

DeVoe attended

Carl Sandburg High School Carl Sandburg High School, Sandburg, or CSHS, is a public four-year high school located at the intersection of La Grange Road and Southmoor Drive in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part ...

then spent four years at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

, playing varsity soccer as well as studying speech and hearing sciences.

Club career

While at college DeVoe played for

in the 2004 W-League season. She also featured for Chicago Gaels in 2006. In July 2009 DeVoe and sister

Mary Therese McDonnell Mary Therese McDonnell (born 26 August 1986), is an Irish American soccer defender. She is a Republic of Ireland women's national football team player. After being released from St. Louis Athletica's preseason training camp in March 2010, she r ...

played for the Irish national team against Mary Therese's club side

in an exhibition game at the Sports Complex at Benedictine University. Shannon signed for the Red Stars herself in June 2011, after the club left 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 ...

and reconstituted itself at the lower level of the

. She was also hired as the club's camps director.

International career

Devos first represented the

Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. A ...

during a summer 2009 training camp in

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. Shannon and younger sister Mary Therese McDonnell then featured in Ireland's failed qualifying campaigns for the

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...

and

UEFA Women's Euro 2013 The 2013 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as Women's Euro 2013, was the 11th European Championship for List of women's national association football teams#UEFA, women's national football teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament ...

. Their eligibility for the Irish team derived from their grandfather, who was from

Foxford Foxford () is a village 16 km south of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland. It stands on the N26 national primary route from Swinford to Ballina and has a railway station served by trains between Manulla Junction and Ballina. Foxford lies o ...

Coaching career

After her playing career DeVoe began working as an assistant coach for the

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' women's soccer team. She married the Orediggers wrestling coach Austin DeVoe.

References

External links

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Shannon McDonnell
at FAI {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcdonnell, Shannon Republic of Ireland women's association footballers Republic of Ireland women's international footballers 1984 births Living people American people of Irish descent Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois Illinois Fighting Illini women's soccer players People from Orland Park, Illinois Women's association football midfielders Women's Premier Soccer League players Chicago Red Stars players