Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Rhian Wilkinson, Canadian female soccer player, born in in Pointe-Claire, Quebec

Rhian Wilkinson (born May 12, 1982 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec) is a British-Canadian female soccer player, who currently plays for Surrey United.

Wilkinson played with Team Strømmen FK in the Norwegian league in the fall of 2005. She won the W-League 2005 Scoring Championship and tied for the Assist Leader with 38 points on 13 goals and 12 assists. She was named to the 2003 W-League All Star team and the 2004 W-League Championship All Tournament team, and was chosen as the University of Tennessee’s Lady Vols' Offensive Most Valuable Player in 2002.

She won the Bronze medal with the Canadian women's national soccer team at the 2007 Pan American Games.

Wilkinson also vompeted for the Lakeshore, a female ice hockey team and also played rugby in 1998-1999.

Her British father was born in the Danish city Copenhagen, he was in the military of Britain and is former director of the Canada national rugby union team, while his mother was born in Cardiff, Wales. She is a major in speech communication and English at the University of Tennessee and holds a British (EU) and Canadian passport.






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