Kay Joyce Hawke (born 28 March 1983) is an English

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, who most recently played as a

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for Lincoln Ladies in the FA WSL. During her career she has played for

Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the , the second tier of the English football league system. They have played home matches at Ewood Park since 1890. Th ...

, Lincoln Ladies and

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, USA. She has played for

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at Under 21,

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and full senior international level in her career.

Club career

Hawke joined Lincoln from Blackburn Rovers Ladies in the summer of 2007. She had joined Blackburn in 2005 and won her first league championship ( Northern Premier) that season. In a September 2009 Premier League Cup match against

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, Hawke scored with an enormous clearance but was then controversially sent-off for handling outside her area. Lincoln went on to lose 6–2. While preparing for the 2011

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season with Lincoln, Hawke joined

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on loan in August 2010. FA Women's Premier League National Division Leeds had a goalkeeper crisis after

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departed and Jules Draycott was injured. Hawke left Lincoln before the 2012 WSL season.

United States

In May 2009 Hawke joined

in California with the permission of Lincoln Ladies to play against teams in the Central and Western U.S.A and also Canada, she was made captain of the team upon arrival. She was voted as the goalkeeper for the Western Conference All Star IX for the season 2009/10.

International career

Hawke's international debut was against Sweden at U21 level on 1 October 2004. The match took place at

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, home ground of Swedish side

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, and ended 1–0 to

, giving Hawke an international debut clean sheet. Having played football for

at U21 and U23 level Hawke finally made her full debut for

on 14 February 2008 against

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. She replaced

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after 73 minutes of the 2–1 win.

References

1983 births Living people People from Walkden English women's footballers England women's international footballers Blackburn Rovers L.F.C. players Leeds United Women F.C. players Notts County L.F.C. players FA Women's National League players Women's Super League players USL W-League (1995–2015) players England women's under-23 international footballers Women's association football goalkeepers {{England-women-footy-bio-stub