Christine Exeter
Personal information
Full name Christine Exeter
Date of birth (1992-09-03) 3 September 1992
Place of birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Pickering SC
Ajax SC
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Louisville Cardinals 72 (31)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Toronto Lady Lynx
2022 Darby FC 14 (8)
International career
2012 Canada U20 7 (1)
2015– Jamaica 4
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 July 2022

Christine Exeter (born 3 September 1992) is a footballer who plays as a forward. Born in Canada, she represented Jamaica at senior international level.

Early life

She began playing youth soccer at age 6 with Pickering SC.[1] She later played youth soccer with Ajax SC.[2] In 2004, at the age of 11, she was a recipient of the Bob Marley Award, which is given out to Jamaican-Canadians whose works have elevated the city of Toronto.[3]

College career

In 2010, she began attending the University of Louisville, where she played for the women's soccer team on a soccer scholarship.[4] In 2010, she was named the Big East Rookie of the Year, after she led her team with seven goals.[5] In 2011, she was named an NSCAA Third Team All-American, the Big East Conference Offensive Player of the Year, and a First Team All-Big East, helping the team clinch the program's first ever Big East National Division title.[6][7] In 2012, she was named to the Third Team All-Big East[2] and was a nominee for the Hermann Trophy.[8][9]

Club career

In 2010 and 2011, she played for the Toronto Lady Lynx in the USL W-League.[10] She was named to the 2011 W-League All-Star team.[11]

In 2022, she played for Darby FC in League1 Ontario.[12] She was named a league Third Team All-Star in 2022.[13]

International career

Born in Canada, Exeter was also eligible to represent St. Vincent & the Grenadines, where her father was born, and Jamaica, where her mother was born.[1]

In 2008, she was called up to a Canada U17 camp for the first time.[1] She won a silver medal with the Canada U20 at the 2012 CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship and also played at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.[1][14] She scored her first international goal at the U20 World Cup on August 27 against North Korea U20.[15]

In 2015, she switched to begin representing the Jamaica women's national football team.[16] She was named team captain ahead of her third game.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Christine Exeter at the Canadian Soccer Association
  2. 1 2 "Christne Exeter Louisville profile". Louisville Cardinals.
  3. ↑ "11-year-old among recipients of Bob Marley Award". Jamaica Information Service. February 12, 2004.
  4. ↑ "Pickering Christine Exeter and Canada done at U20 World Cup in Japan". Oshawa This Week. August 30, 2012.
  5. ↑ Sykes, Sonja; Sykes, Paul (November 5, 2010). "Exeter named rookie of the year and BREEDERS CUP!". Cardinal Couple.
  6. ↑ "Women's Soccer Spotlight: Christine Exeter". Louisville Cardinals. March 13, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Christine Exeter named Player of the Year". Oshawa This Week. November 4, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Pickering's Christine Exeter on soccer watch list". Oshawa This Week. August 18, 2012.
  9. ↑ Wahman, Jeremy (August 15, 2012). "Women's Soccer: Christine Exeter named to MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List". Cardinal Sports Zone.
  10. ↑ "Louisville Women's Soccer Summer Recap". Louisville Cardinals. August 2, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Whitecaps FC women's midfielder named to W-League All-League Team". Vancouver Whitecaps. July 26, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Christine Exeter 2022 L1O Stats". League1 Ontario.
  13. ↑ "Simcoe skipper Cloey Uddenberg at the heart of the 2022 Women's Premier Division All-Star team". League1 Ontario. November 17, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Cards' Exeter, Melhado Named to Canada's U20 Team at CONCACAF Championship". Louisville Cardinals. March 2, 2012.
  15. ↑ "Canada eliminated from U-20 World Cup". The Globe and Mail. August 27, 2012.
  16. ↑ Williams, Sean (August 23, 2015). "The Reggae Girlz and the 'Ex' factor". Jamaica Observer.
  17. ↑ Walker, Howard (November 19, 2015). "Captain Christine Exeter aims high for Senior Reggae Girlz". Jamaica Observer.
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