Heather Ann Garriock (born 21 December 1982) is an Australian former

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player and coach. Garriock played as a

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in a career based mostly in Australia. Her last stint as a player was for

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of the Australian W-League. Garriock played 130 matches for the Australian women's national team, appearing at two Olympic football tournaments and three

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Playing career

Club career

Garriock began her career playing football in Australia. She played for

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, NSW Sapphires, and Queensland Sting before moving overseas. She signed with

Adirondack Lynx Adirondack Lynx is an American women’s soccer team, founded in 2005. The team is a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League, the third tier of women’s soccer in the United States and Canada. The team plays in the North Division of the Ea ...

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in 2006. She made six appearances in 2006 before returning to the Australian National Team. In 2007, she made a further five appearances. In total, she made 11 appearances for Adirondack Lynx, while scoring 10 goals and chipping in eight assists. Garriock was on the move once again in 2008, playing for

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in Denmark, before moving back to Australia to play for

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in the Australian W-League. In 2009, Garriock was selected for the

Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 ...

league in the United States. In the

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, she was picked 12th overall by

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. For the inaugural

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, she appeared for Chicago in 5 games (0 starts, 89 total minutes) and recorded an assist. It was announced on 30 September 2009 that Chicago had waived their option for a second year, thus making Garriock a free agent. She returned to her previous team,

, following her release from Chicago. In October 2013, Garriock joined

. Garriock retired from national league football after the 2013–14 W-League season.

International career

Garriock first represented the

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in October 1999 in a friendly against

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at 16 years old. She has represented her country in the

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in Sydney as well as the

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in Athens. She has also appeared for Australia in the

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and

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editions of the

. She scored two goals in 2003 and one in 2007. In 2013, Garriock was selected for a national team tour that included a match against the United States, though did not play in the match. After the tour, Football Federation Australia denied a claim from Garriock to cover childcare expenses for her young daughter. A subsequent appeal to the

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was unsuccessful.

Coaching career

Garriock was appointed senior head coach of the Sydney Uni SFC women's first team in 2014. In 2017, Garriock was appointed an assistant coach of

for the

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. On 22 May 2017, Garriock was appointed head coach of

Canberra United Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and the only club not affiliated with ...

. She was let go in February 2020.

Personal

Garriock was born in Campbelltown in the western suburbs of Sydney. She attended

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. Garriock started the Macarthur Youth Football Academy, based in the southwestern Sydney area of Camden. In 2003, Garriock's brother, Nathan, died from injuries sustained during an altercation at a party he attended in Camden, NSW.

Career statistics

International goals

''Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first.''

Honours

Playing

Club

; NSW Sapphires *

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Championship: 1999–2000 ;

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: 2007–08 ;

* W-League Premiership:

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* W-League Championship:

; LdB FC Malmö *

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: 2011

Country

;

* OFC Women's Championship:

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Individual

Julie Dolan Medal The Julie Dolan Medal is awarded annually to the player voted to be the best player in the highest women's soccer league in Australia. The medal has been presented to players in the W-League (retitled A-League Women) and previously in the Women's ...

: 2002–03

Coaching

; Sydney Uni SFC *NPL NSW Women's 1 Coach of the Year: 2014

References

External links

*
Australia player profile

Official website

Sydney FC player profile

Women's Professional Soccer player profile

Adirondack Lynx player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Garriock, Heather Living people 1982 births Australian women's soccer players Sydney FC (women) players Western Sydney Wanderers FC (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark Chicago Red Stars players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States FIFA Women's Century Club Olympic soccer players for Australia Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Australia women's international soccer players Soccer players from Sydney Women's association football midfielders Adirondack Lynx players Women's Premier Soccer League players Damallsvenskan players FC Rosengård players Women's Professional Soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Australian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Fortuna Hjørring players Sportswomen from New South Wales A-League Women managers 21st-century Australian sportswomen