Kelly Parker (born 8 March 1981) is a Canadian former

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who last played for Atlanta Beat in

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 ...

. She was also a member of the Canadian national team from 2003 to 2012.

Career

Prior to joining

SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg (), is a Football in Germany, German professional football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions ...

, Parker played for

Sky Blue FC Gotham Football Club is an American professional soccer team based in the New York metropolitan area that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Founded in 2006 as Jersey Sky Blue, the team was known as Sky Blue FC from 2008 un ...

UTEP Miners The UTEP Miners is the name given to the sports teams of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). They are informally referred to as the Miners, UTEP, or Texas–El Paso. UTEP was a member of the Western Athletic Conference from 1967 to 2005, ...

, Ottawa Fury and F.C. Indiana. Parker played for W-League winners Buffalo Flash in 2010 and was named

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after scoring 11 goals in seven games. This was the second time she had won the award, having done so with Ottawa Fury in 2004. She is the only player to have won the award twice. In August 2010 Parker returned to Sky Blue FC, where she had played in 2009. Parker played her last professional season in 2011 with the

Western New York Flash The Western New York Flash (WNY Flash) was an American women's soccer club based in Elma, New York, that most recently competed in the United Women's Soccer league in 2018. They won league championships in four different leagues: the USL W-Leag ...

and the Atlanta Beat.

International career

Parker was a member of the Canada women's national soccer team from 2003 to 2012. She won the bronze medal with Canada in the 2012 Olympics when they defeated

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1–0 on 9 August 2012.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parker, Kelly 1981 births Living people UTEP Miners women's soccer players Women's association football midfielders Gotham FC players SC Freiburg (women) players Frauen-Bundesliga players Western New York Flash players Atlanta Beat (WPS) players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic soccer players for Canada Olympic medalists in football Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Canada women's international soccer players Canadian women's soccer players Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Soccer people from Saskatchewan Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Pan American Games gold medalists in football F.C. Indiana players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's Professional Soccer players 21st-century Canadian sportswomen Ottawa Fury (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States