Kendall Fletcher

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Kendall Fletcher
Personal information
Full nameKendall Lorraine Fletcher
Date of birth (1984-11-06) November 6, 1984
Place of birthCary, North Carolina, United States
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing positionDefender/Midfielder
Club information
Current clubCanberra United
Number4
Youth career
2002–2005North Carolina Tar Heels
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2004Carolina Dynamo11(4)
2005–2006New Jersey Wildcats11(2)
2007Jersey Sky Blue
2008Pali Blues11(3)
2009Los Angeles Sol1(0)
2009–2010Saint Louis Athletica22(0)
2009→ Central Coast Mariners (loan)10(4)
2010–2012Sky Blue FC30(1)
2010–2012Melbourne Victory22(4)
2012–2013Vittsjö GIK
2013–Canberra United1(1)
National team‡
2001–2002United States U-19
United States U-21
2009–United States1(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:18, 26 September 2009 (UTC).

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:18, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Kendall Fletcher (born November 6, 1984) is an American soccer defender currently playing for Canberra United of the Australian W-League. She has also been capped once by the United States women's national soccer team.

Early life

Born in Cary, North Carolina to parents, Gwen and Yates Fletcher, Fletcher has one brother, Eric, and a sister, Preston. She attended Apex High School in Apex, North Carolina where she played center midfield for the soccer team for four years and played two years of varsity basketball as a point guard.

In 2002, she was ranked as the nation's sixth best high school senior by Soccer America, was a Parade and NSCAA High School All-America selection, and was named Gatorade Player of the Year. She was also named All-State in 2001 as well as All-conference and All-region in 2001 and 2002.[1]

University of North Carolina

Fletcher attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and played for the Tar Heels from 2002–05. During her career, she won three ACC championships and was a starter for the 2003 NCAA-title winning team that went 27–0–0 for the season.[2]

Playing career

Club

Fletcher signed for Jersey Sky Blue for the 2007 W-League season, but did not make an appearance for the club.[3] She switched coasts in 2008, joining Pali Blues in Los Angeles, California as the first signing in team history.[4]

Fletcher during a game against the Boston Breakers in 2009.
She joined Los Angeles Sol in the WPS in 2009, but only played one game for the club before she was traded to Saint Louis Athletica.[5] She played seventeen games for Athletica, and gave multiple assists in helping the team go from the bottom of the ladder to second place and the playoff semifinal. Athletica then loaned her to the Central Coast Mariners, where she scored four goals in ten games as the Mariners finished second in the league.

Athletica kept Fletcher for the 2010 WPS season, but surprisingly folded only six games into the season, all of which she started. Sky Blue FC picked up her contract, and she became a regular player there as well, starting ten of the fifteen games she played with the Jersey-based club. During the off-season, she returned to Australia, this time with the Melbourne Victory – the Mariners had folded as well – and helped them to the semi-finals.

Fletcher playing for the Central Coast Mariners of the Australian W-League.

Fletcher returned to the Sky Blue FC for the 2011 WPS season, and started all 15 games that she played. Like the previous season, Sky Blue was just short of making the playoffs. Fletcher is currently back with the Victory for the fourth season of the W-League.

International

Fletcher was a member of the U-19 United States Women's National Team that won the first ever U-19 World Cup in 2002. She played for the team in two Nordic Cup Championships with the U-21 National Team winning the championship in 2005. She was team captain in 2006.[2]

Fletcher was also a member of the Women's National Team player pool having trained with the team during residency in previous years.[6]

Coaching career

Fletcher was an assistant coach for the University of California, Irvine and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kendall Fletcher bio". University of North Carolina. Retrieved 27 December 2012. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Kendall Fletcher, assistant coach". UC Irvine. Retrieved 27 December 2012. 
  3. ↑ "Fletcher joins Sky Blue". W-League. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 26 September 2009. 
  4. ↑ "KENDALL FLETCHER SIGNS AS FIRST-EVER PLAYER FOR PALI BLUES". Pali Blues. 26 December 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2009. 
  5. ↑ "Athletica acquires Welsh, Fletcher from L.A. in trade". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 8 May 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2009. 
  6. ↑ "Kendall Fletcher". US Soccer. Retrieved 27 December 2012. 

External links

Canberra United FC – current squad
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