| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | October 10, 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Edmonton, Canada | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2009– | Piteå IF ladies team | 44 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2003–2006 | Canada U-20 | 18 | (0) |
| 2008– | Canada | 6 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Stephanie Labbé (born October 10, 1986 in Edmonton, Canada) is a Canadian football (soccer) player. She is a goalkeeper for the Piteå IF ladies team.
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Stephanie joined the University of Connecticut and the women's soccer team in the second semester of 2004. In 2005, she played in all 22 games of the season, starting in 9. Stephanie emerged as the top keeper in 2005 and played every minute of the last three games of the season. She posted a 1.15 goals against average and a 4–3 record, made a total of 65 saves, played in 12 conference games, allowing only seven goals and stopping 32 shots.
In 2006, Stephanie played in all 21 season games, and made the start in 20 of those. She finished the season with a 10–7–4 record and an astonishing 0.96 goals against average. Some of her other highlights: made 73 saves and allowed only 20 goals in just over 1879 minutes logged, collected four individual shutouts and was part of a Husky team that recorded five straight blankings, posted a scoreless streak of 461:63 consecutive minutes over a six-game span, and was named BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Week on October 16.
In 2007, Stephanie played all 22 games in her junior year, and played every minute in goal that season. She finished with a 14–6–2 record, and a career best 0.61 goals against average. Some of her highlights include: making 71 saves and allowing only 14 goals in 2058 minutes of action, collected 11 shutouts over the course of the year, recorded first career assist on game winning goal against Providence, and earned three shutouts in the NCAA tournament against first round foe Boston College, in the second round against Wake Forest and against third round opponent Stanford.[1]
In 2008, Labbe was named BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Year.
Labbe is also a well accomplished penalty kick taker. Labbe took and made penalty kick's for the Huskies to help them advance in the 2007 NCAA Tournament over Boston College and the 2008 BIG EAST Tournament over West Virginia.
Piteå IF is a Swedish football club located in Piteå. Piteå IF is currently playing in the highest league, Damallsvenskan. The first time the team played in the highest league was in the season of 2009, which also was the first year Labbé joined the team. After the club became regulated to div 1, Labbé was one of three foreign players that stayed within the club and helpet the team to get promoten to Damallsvenskan in the season of 2010. In 2011, Piteå and Labbé once again play in the highest league, Damallsvenskan.
Stephanie has a very accomplished international record for the appearances she has made. Her main highlights include:
– Won a silver medal with Canada at the XIV Pan American Games Santo Domingo in 2003 (lost 2–1 to Brasil in the final)
– Finished first with Canada at the 2004 CONCACAF Women's U-19 Qualitfying Tournament
– Reached the quarterfinal with Canada at the FIFA U-19 Women's World Cup in Thailand in 2004
– Finished second with Canada at the 2006 CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship
– Represented Canada at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia in 2006
– Was nominated as one of Canada’s alternate players before the 2008 Women’s Olympic Football Tournament in Beijing
– Finished first with Canada at the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in Mexico[2]
Currently Stephanie is training with the Canada women's national soccer team for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011.
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