Jennifer Anne Nobis (born March 22, 1984) is an American

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playing until 2012 for

Piteå IF Piteå Idrottsförening (), commonly known as Piteå IF (), is a Swedish football club located in Piteå that currently competes in Sweden's top-division women's league, Damallsvenskan, which it won in 2018. History The sports club Piteå IF ...

of the Swedish

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Playing career

Early life and university

Played for four Missouri state champion club teams as a member of the Wolfpack (1998) and Busch (2000–02) soccer clubs. Nobis attended Quincy High School. She led Quincy to three consecutive regional championships from 2000 to 2002 and finished as the schools all-time scoring leader with 107 career goals and 50 career assists. She was recruited to and eventually enrolled at the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

. While at university, she was a student-athlete and played for the

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women's soccer team from 2002 through 2005. She was selected to the All-Big 12 Second Team as a Junior in 2004. She set a school record with 14 assists as a senior in 2005, and her 0.78 assists per game averaged in 2005 ranks fourth all-time in the Big 12. For her career, Nobis ranks second all-time on Missouri's career list in goals (32) and third in both points (93) and assists (28).

Professional career

In her first of two seasons (2006–2007) with the River Cities Futbol Club, Nobis was named 2006 WPSL Player of the Year and led the WPSL in scoring and total points. She scored 10 goals in 8 matches. Nobis played in

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in 2006 for Charlton Athletic L.F.C. and in

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from 2007 through 2008. Her first season in Sweden was spent with Danmarks IF Uppsala, where she appeared in 10 games and scored nine goals. The following season she joined

Umeå Södra FF Umeå Södra FF is a football club from Umeå, Sweden. The club was established in 1982 with the merging of Röbäcks IF and Tegs SK. The club qualified for the Damallsvenskan league on October 13, 2007, by defeating the Ornäs BK 4–0 in the seco ...

in the

. There she notched three goals and three assists in 18 matches. Upon the return of top-flight professional soccer to the

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, Nobis decided to return home. She was the 29th overall selection in the

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and her playing rights were assigned to

Boston Breakers The Boston Breakers were an American professional women's soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defu ...

. In the inaugural

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, Nobis played in 11 matches and scored 2 goals. After the conclusion of the

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season, Nobis went on loan to

. Her first appearance for the team was on September 27, 2009 and she scored on her debut. Jennifer continued playing successfully for the Piteå IF ladies team in the Swedish Damallsvenskan (Premier league), one of the top contenders in the league, and retired from professional sports at the end of their 2012 season.

References

External links

Boston Breakers player profile

JNO's Blog

Piteå IF
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nobis, Jennifer 1984 births Living people Boston Breakers players Sportspeople from Quincy, Illinois Women's association football forwards Missouri Tigers women's soccer players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Piteå IF (women) players Damallsvenskan players Soccer players from Illinois American women's soccer players 21st-century American sportswomen American expatriate women's soccer players American expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate women's footballers in England American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Women's Professional Soccer players Umeå Södra FF players