Kelly Parker (born 8 March 1981) is a Canadian former

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who last played for Atlanta Beat in

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 ...

. She was also a member of the Canadian national team from 2003 to 2012.

Career

Prior to joining

SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg () or just Freiburg, is a German football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bund ...

, Parker played for

Sky Blue FC NJ/NY Gotham FC is a professional women's soccer team based in Harrison, New Jersey. Founded in 2006 as Jersey Sky Blue, the team was known as Sky Blue FC from 2008 until 2020. A founding member of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2013 ...

UTEP Miners The UTEP Miners is the name given to the sports teams of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). They are informally referred to as the Miners, UTEP, or Texas–El Paso. UTEP was a member of the Western Athletic Conference from 1967 to 2005, ...

, Ottawa Fury and F.C. Indiana. Parker played for W-League winners Buffalo Flash in 2010 and was named

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after scoring 11 goals in seven games. This was the second time she had won the award, having done so with Ottawa Fury in 2004. She is the only player to have won the award twice. In August 2010 Parker returned to Sky Blue FC, where she had played in 2009. Parker played her last professional season in 2011 with the

Western New York Flash The Western New York Flash (WNY Flash) was an American soccer club based in Elma, New York that competed in the United Women's Soccer league. They have won league championships in four different leagues: the USL W-League in 2010, Women's Profess ...

and the Atlanta Beat.

International career

Parker was a member of the

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from 2003 to 2012. She won the bronze medal with Canada in the

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when they defeated

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1–0 on 9 August 2012.

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* * 1981 births Living people UTEP Miners women's soccer players Women's association football midfielders Sky Blue FC (WPS) players SC Freiburg (women) players Western New York Flash players Atlanta Beat (WPS) players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic soccer players of Canada Olympic medalists in football Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Canada women's international soccer players Canadian women's soccer players Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Soccer people from Saskatchewan Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Pan American Games medalists in football F.C. Indiana players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's Professional Soccer players 21st-century Canadian women Ottawa Fury (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players {{Canada-women-footy-bio-stub