Brittany Timko

Brittany Baxter

Personal information
Date of birth	5 September 1985[1]
Place of birth	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [1]
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Playing position	Forward, midfielder
Youth career
2003–2007	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2006	Vancouver Whitecaps Women	17	(4)
2008–2009	Melbourne Victory	9	(2)
2009	Piteå IF	7	(0)
2010	SG Essen-Schönebeck	0	(0)
National team‡
2002–2004	Canada U-20 (U-19)	32	(16)
2002–	Canada	126	(5)
Honours Olympic Games Bronze 2012 London Team Pan American Games Bronze 2007 Rio de Janeiro Canada Gold 2011 Guadalajara Canada
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23 December 2013

Brittany Baxter (née Timko) (born 5 September 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian female soccer player.

Career

Baxter's first senior club team was Vancouver Whitecaps Women. She also played on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln soccer team from 2003 to 2007, graduating in May 2007. She then signed for Melbourne Victory of Australia's newly formed W-League in October 2008,^[2] linking up with her former coach Matt Shepherd.^[3] In the first half of the 2009/2010 season Baxter played in Sweden's Damallsvenskan league for Piteå IF^[4] and in the second played for SG Essen-Schönebeck.^[5] She left SG Essen-Schönebeck during the summer of 2010.^[6]

International career

Baxter has been capped over 100 times^[7] by Canada, scoring four times. However, at the U-19 level where she played more often as a forward, Baxter found significant scoring success. She earned the adidas Golden Shoe as top scorer at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship with seven goals in four games.

Baxter won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan Am Games tournament when Canada defeated Brazil 4-3 in penalty kicks. Baxter was also a member of the Canada women's national football team that competed in the 2012 Olympics. She won a bronze medal when Canada defeated France 1-0 on 9 August 2012 in the bronze medal match.

References

External links

• Bio at Melbourne Victory
• Profile on Canada Soccer website
• Nebraska player bio

v t e Canada squad – 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 LeBlanc 2 Latham 3 Consolante 4 Andrews 5 Neil 6 Nonen 7 Morneau 8 Kiss 9 Wilkinson 10 Hooper 11 Hermus 12 Sinclair 13 Matheson 14 Moscato 15 Lang 16 Timko 17 Burtini 18 Dennis 19 McLeod 20 Swiatek Coach: Pellerud

v t e Canada women's football squad – 2007 Pan American Games – Bronze Medalists 1 LeBlanc 2 Kiss 3 Booth 4 Tancredi 5 Neil 6 Andrews 7 Wilkinson 8 Matheson 9 Chapman 10 Franko 11 Hermus 12 Sinclair 13 Walsh 15 Lang 16 Thorlakson 17 Timko 19 Vermeulen 20 Swiatek Coach: Pellerud

v t e Canada squad – 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 LeBlanc 2 Kiss 3 Booth 4 Gayle 5 Neil 6 Dennis 7 Wilkinson 8 Matheson 9 Chapman 10 Franko 11 Hermus 12 Sinclair 13 Walsh 14 Tancredi 15 Lang 16 Thorlakson 17 Timko 18 McLeod 19 Schmidt 20 Swiatek 21 Robinson Coach: Pellerud

v t e Canada women's football squad – 2008 Summer Olympics 1 LeBlanc 2 Robinson 3 Zurrer 4 Rustad 5 Gayle 6 Schmidt 7 Wilkinson 8 Matheson 9 Chapman 10 Franko 11 Hermus 12 Sinclair (c) 13 Walsh 14 Tancredi 15 Lang 16 Filigno 17 Timko 18 McLeod Coach: Pellerud

v t e Canada squad – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 LeBlanc 2 Zurrer 3 Parker 4 Moscato 5 Gayle 6 Kyle 7 Wilkinson 8 Matheson 9 Chapman 10 Robinson 11 Scott 12 Sinclair 13 Schmidt 14 Tancredi 15 Julien 16 Filigno 17 Timko 18 McLeod 19 Stewart 20 Nault 21 Labbé Coach: Morace

v t e Canada women's football squad – 2011 Pan American Games – Gold Medalists 1 Beanlands 2 Booth 3 Chapman 4 Gayle 5 Julien 6 Kyle 7 LeBlanc 8 Legault-Cordisco 9 Matheson 10 Parker 11 Schmidt 12 Scott 13 Sesselmann 14 Simpson 15 Sinclair 16 Timko 17 Wilkinson 18 Woeller Coach: Herdman

v t e Canada women's football squad – 2012 Summer Olympics – Bronze Medalists 1 LeBlanc 2 Zurrer 3 Stewart 4 Moscato 5 Gayle 6 Kyle 7 Wilkinson 8 Matheson 9 Chapman 10 Sesselmann 11 Scott 12 Sinclair (c) 13 Schmidt 14 Tancredi 15 Parker 16 Filigno 17 Timko 18 McLeod 19 Booth 20 Nault Coach: Herdman