Tabitha Michelle Tindell (born August 25, 1995) is an American

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player who plays as a

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for

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of the Swedish

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Youth career

Tindell attended

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, where she played girls' soccer. She scored 160 career goals and 80 career assists, including a 44-goal/40-assist campaign in her sophomore season that led all high school players in the United States in points. Trinity won the

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2A State Championship in 2013, the program's first, with Tindell scoring 52 goals and 30 assists on the season and

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s in four of five playoff matches, including the championship match.

College career

Tindell joined

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in 2013 and played for the

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team. As a freshman she set a single-season university record with 15 goals scored, then broke the record in the following season with 20, in which she also became the program's all-time leading goalscorer. Her 8th-second goal against Lipscomb on October 12, 2014, was one of the fastest from kickoff in NCAA history. She finished her career as the Eagles' all-time leading scorer with 66 goals and 162 points, both of which set university and

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records. She scored 31 career game-winning goals, the second-most in

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history, and became the program's only two-time

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n after being named in 2014 (second team) and 2016 (third team). The ASUN Conference named her its women's soccer player of the year in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Club career

IFK Kalmar, 2019–2021

Tindell signed with Swedish second-division

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club

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in 2019, and scored a

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in her debut. A jury of team captains and media representatives named her the Elitettan's player of the month in May 2021 following her

against

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in a 4–0 victory. She scored a total of 39 goals in 63 appearances in three seasons with the club. Kalmar finished as league runners-up to

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in 2021, her final season with the club, in which Kalmar won promotion to the top-flight

. Her 19 goals in the 2021 Elitettan were second-most on the season behind Henna-Riikka Honkanen's 22.

Kristianstads DFF, 2022–2024

Tindell and IFK Kalmar teammate Klara Rybrink together signed with top-flight

club

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in November 2021. In her first

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match with the club, she scored four goals against Ifö Bromölla. Tindell's 14 goals in 25 league appearances during the

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was third-most on the season, behind

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and Tindell's teammate

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, despite suffering a mid-season knee injury.

BK Häcken, 2024–

Tindell joined

in the middle of the 2024 season.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tindell, Tabby 1995 births Living people American women's soccer players Women's association football forwards Sportspeople from Ocala, Florida Florida Gulf Coast Eagles women's soccer players IFK Kalmar players Kristianstads DFF players Damallsvenskan players American expatriate women's soccer players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden 21st-century American sportswomen Soccer players from Florida