Jody Kimone Brown (born 16 April 2002) is a Jamaican

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who plays as a

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for

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club Benfica and the Jamaica women's national team. She played college soccer with the

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Early life and education

Montverde Academy

Brown attended

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, a town near

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, where she helped lead the soccer team to back-to-back state championships in 2018–19. As a junior in 2019, she recorded 32 goals and 9 assists. The same year, she was named Girls Soccer Player of the Year by the ''

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'' and Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer.

Florida State University

After graduating from Montverde Academy, Brown moved to

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in August 2020.

International career

Brown has represented Jamaica on the senior national team as well as the under-15, under-17, and under-20 national teams. She competed at two

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editions in (

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and

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), the

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, the

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and the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualification. She made her senior debut in 2018 at the age of 16. The same year, she was the youngest player competing at the

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, the qualifying tournament for the

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. Brown was the top scorer of the tournament with four goals. At age 17, Brown was selected for Jamaica's 2019 Women's World Cup squad. She made her World Cup debut during the team's first group stage match against

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in Grenoble.

Career statistics

International goals

''Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first''

Honours

Florida State Seminoles *

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* ACC Women's Soccer Tournament:

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* ACC Women's Regular Season Champions:

Benfica *

: 2024–25 *

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: 2024–25 Jamaica *

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third place:

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Individual *

Young Player of the Tournament:

* CONCACAF Women's Best XI:

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Jody 2002 births Living people Women's association football forwards Jamaican women's footballers 21st-century Jamaican sportswomen Jamaica women's international footballers 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games Jamaican expatriate women's footballers Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Montverde Academy alumni Florida State Seminoles women's soccer players Soccer players from Florida People from Portmore, Jamaica Footballers from Saint Catherine Parish 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players