Ciara Marie McCormack (born 29 September 1979) is a soccer defender who plays for Treaty United. She has made eight appearances for 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 = Ol ...

College career

McCormack won a scholarship to

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and played

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for four years. She spent a further year at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

Club career

McCormack has featured for

Boston Renegades Boston Renegades was an American women’s 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 ...

Vancouver Whitecaps Women The Vancouver Whitecaps FC women was a Canadian soccer club based in Vancouver, British Columbia that played in the USL W-League, the second tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada. The team was formed in 2001 under the name Vancou ...

and

Ottawa Fury Women Ottawa Fury Women was a Canadian women's soccer team based in Ottawa, Ontario. Founded in 2000, the team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues USL W-League, the second tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada. The team competed ...

in the W-League. She also played for

Fortuna Hjørring Fortuna Hjørring is a women's association football team from Hjørring, Denmark. The club was formed in 1966 and play in green and white. Their biggest achievement in European football was reaching the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup final where the ...

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of Denmark , establishe ...

. Since moving to

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

in 2008, McCormack represented

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in ...

clubs

Asker Fotball Asker Fotball is the football department of Norwegian sports club Asker SK from Asker. The women's football team is one of the most successful clubs ever in Norway, with 6 top flight championships and 5 cup championships. Due to financial di ...

, FK Larvik and

Kolbotn Fotball Kolbotn IL Fotball is a sub-section under the sports club Kolbotn IL from Kolbotn, Norway. The club started football in 1916 and organized football as a semi-autonomous sub-section in 1960. The women's team plays in Toppserien and is one of ...

. She left Kolbotn for Donn Toppfotball in August 2010. In January 2023, McCormack joined Irish club Treaty United.

International career

In late 2007 McCormack delayed her arrival in

to attend a training camp with the

Canada women's national soccer team The Canada women's national soccer team (french: Équipe du Canada féminine de soccer) represents Canada in international soccer competitions. They are overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association, the governing body for soccer in Canada. T ...

. However, McCormack first appeared for 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 Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...

in three friendly games against the

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in September 2008. She then played in both defence and midfield for Ireland. McCormack's father Barry is from

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and her mother is from County Cork. She won the last of her eight

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in a defeat by the

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in August 2010. On 5 May 2014, Ireland

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Susan Ronan recalled McCormack to an experimental squad for a friendly against the Basque Country. McCormack started Ireland's 2–0 defeat in

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, which was not classified as a full international fixture.

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Ciara McCormack
at Football Association of Ireland (FAI) * * 1979 births Living people Republic of Ireland women's association footballers Republic of Ireland women's international footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark Canadian people of Irish descent Fortuna Hjørring players Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Newcastle Jets FC (A-League Women) players Sportspeople from North Vancouver Yale Bulldogs women's soccer players University of Connecticut alumni Irish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Toppserien players Canadian women's soccer players UConn Huskies women's soccer players Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia Irish expatriate sportspeople in Australia Women's association football defenders Ottawa Fury (women) players Boston Renegades players {{Ireland-women-footy-bio-stub