Chantel Nicole Jones (born July 20, 1988) is a retired American professional

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 ...

player who works as a goalkeeping coach at

Canberra United Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the southern Canberra suburb of Wanniassa, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and t ...

in the W-League. She previously played as a goalkeeper for the professional Icelandic team,

Þór Akureyri Íþróttafélagið Þór, commonly known as Þór Akureyri, simply Þór or Thór, is a multi-sport club in Akureyri, Iceland. It features departments in Basketball, football, Handball and Taekwondo. Its main rivals is another sport club from A ...

, Washington Spirit and Western New York Flash of the

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as well as

Perth Glory Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Perth, Western Australia. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues. Founded in 19 ...

and

in the Australian W-League and the

Virginia Cavaliers The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as ''Wahoos'' or ''Hoos'', are the athletic teams representing the University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers compete at the NCAA Division I level ( FBS for football), in the Atlantic C ...

College

She currently holds the NCAA record for most career shutouts, with 47 during her college career at the University of Virginia.

Club career

In 2012, Jones played for

Akureyri, Iceland Akureyri (, locally ) is a town in northern Iceland. It is Iceland's fifth-largest municipality, after Reykjavík, Hafnarfjörður, Reykjanesbær and Kópavogur, and the largest town outside Iceland's more populated southwest corner. Nickn ...

. She made 18 appearances for the club, starting all games for a total of 1620 minutes. She wrote about her experience in Iceland for Resolution Sports. In February 2013, Jones was signed to the Washington Spirit for the inaugural season of the

. In July 2014, Jones signed for

in the Australian W-League. During the Grand Final match on December 21, 2014, Jones saved a penalty kick taken by Perth Glory FC in the 76th minute, preserving Canberra United's 2–1 lead. Canberra United FC scored again to win the championship 3–1. Jones signed for the Western New York Flash for the 2015 season. Jones retired from soccer in January 2016. In January 2021, while working as

's goalkeeping coach, Jones returned from retirement to sign a playing contract with the club until the end of the 2020–21 W-League season. At the end of the season, she returned to retirement.

International career

Jones represented the United States at the

2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 4th edition of the tournament. It was held in Chile between 19 November and 7 December 2008. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all six confederations, took part in the final competition, i ...

and also participated in the

2007 Pan American Games The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to 29, 2007. A total of 5,633 athletes from 42 National Olympic Com ...

References

External links

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Virginia profile

Washington Spirit player profile
* American women's soccer players 1988 births Living people Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer players Soccer players from New York (state) People from Brookhaven, New York Soccer players from Virginia People from Midlothian, Virginia Washington Spirit players Perth Glory FC (A-League Women) players Canberra United FC players National Women's Soccer League players Western New York Flash players Women's association football goalkeepers Lesbian sportswomen American LGBT soccer players Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States United States women's under-20 international soccer players Pan American Games medalists in football Chantel Jones LGBT people from Virginia Footballers at the 2007 Pan American Games American expatriate women's soccer players American expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland American expatriate sportspeople in Australia Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia USL W-League (1995–2015) players Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 21st-century LGBT people {{US-women-footy-bio-stub