Danica Joelle Wu is a retired Canadian

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ...

who last played for German

Frauen-Bundesliga The Frauen-Bundesliga (German language, German for ''Women's Federal League''), currently known as the Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. I ...

side

SGS Essen SGS Essen are a German multi-sports club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 2000 from the merger of ''VfB Borbeck'' and ''SC Grün-Weiß Schönebeck''. It is most renowned for its Women's association football, women' ...

Danica Wu—Profile in soccerdonna
Retrieved March 7, 2020. (German) and played for

Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Ohio State University, located in Columbus, Ohio. The athletic programs are named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree, ...

(collegiately) and for the

Laval Comets The Laval Comets () was a Canadian women's soccer team established in 2006 in the city of Laval, Quebec, Canada, a northern suburb of Montreal. The team was a member of the W-League, the second tier of women’s soccer in the United States and ...

in the W-League and was also a member of the

Canada women's national soccer team The Canada women's national soccer team () represents Canada in international soccer competitions. They are overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association, the governing body for soccer in Canada. The team reached international prominence at the ...

Early life

Ohio State University

;As a freshman in 2010 * played 24 matches, started in 21 matches * scored two goals and made 2 assists * Big Ten All-Freshman team * Ohio State University Scholar-Athlete. ;As a sophomore in 2011 * started 22 matches * scored 2 goals, and made 4 assists * second team All-Big Ten * All-Great Lakes Region * Academic All-Big Ten * Ohio State University Scholar-Athlete. ; As a junior in 2012 * played 12 games after missing the start of the season playing for Canada at the U-20 Women's World Cup and the final six games with a broken leg. * first team All-Big Ten * Academic All-Big Ten * Ohio State University Scholar-Athlete. ; As a senior in 2013 * played 18 matches, started in 18 matches * Academic All-Big Ten * Ohio State University Scholar-Athlete.

Youth playing career

Wu captained Alberta provincial team in Canada Summer Games and was selected to the all-star team during those games. She won a bronze medal with Canada's U17 team at the 2008

CONCACAF The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football. Its 4 ...

Women's Under-17 Championship, and was nominated Canadian U-17 player of the year in 2007 and 2008. She won a silver medal with the U20 team at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Championship, and was nominated Canadian U-20 player of the year in 2012. Wu played in all three group-stage matches team Canada played in

2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 6th edition of the tournament. The tournament was played in Japan from 19 August to 8 September with sixteen national football teams and marked the first hosting of a FIFA women's tournament in the co ...

. Noted by the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Technical Study Group as "playmaker with great vision, good ball recovery and distribution skills, hard-working player in defence and attack".

International

Wu made her debut for the

on June 2, 2013, against the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

, at

BMO Field BMO Field is an outdoor stadium located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Constructed on the former Exhibition Stadium site and first opened in 2007, it is the home field of Toronto FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) and Toronto Ar ...

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

. The match was referred to as a rematch of a 2012 Olympics semi-final match.

Personal

Wu speaks English and Cantonese. Her father was born in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

while her mother was born in

Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, R ...

Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...

. She grew up participating in skiing, snowboarding, taekwondo, hockey and swimming. Wu attended

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

beginning in 2010, and has graduated.

References

External links

* *
OhioStateBuckeyes.com – Danica Wu

Laval Cometes – Danica Wu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Danica 1992 births Living people Canadian sportspeople of Hong Kong descent Canadian sportspeople of Chinese descent Women's association football midfielders Canadian expatriate women's soccer players Canadian women's soccer players Canada women's international soccer players Soccer players from Edmonton MSV Duisburg (women) players SGS Essen players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Ohio State Buckeyes women's soccer players Frauen-Bundesliga players Ottawa Fury (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Laval Comets players 21st-century Canadian sportswomen