Christine Sinclair (born June 12, 1983 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian soccer player. She is a striker for the national team and the women's section of the Vancouver Whitecaps in the W-League, the de facto top-level league in North American women's soccer. Sinclair completed an extremely successful college career at the University of Portland with a national championship in 2005, her second with the Pilots. She is already second all-time in goals scored for the Canadian national team; her 53 (as of December 4, 2005) trails only Charmaine Hooper. June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Burnaby, British Columbia, is a city immediately east of Vancouver. ... Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Confederation of African Football (CAF) Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) The Current Laws of the Game (LOTG) The Rec. ... Strikers, also known as centre forwards, forwards, and attackers, are the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing teams goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals. ... First International United States 1 - 0 Canada (Minneapolis, USA; July 7, 1986) Largest win Puerto Rico 0 - 21 Canada (Etobicoke, Canada; August 28, 1998) Worst defeat United States 9 - 1 Canada (Dallas, USA; May 19, 1995) United States 9 - 1 Canada (Sydney, Australia; June 2, 2000) Norway 9 - 1 Canada... The Whitecaps (officially Whitecaps F.C.) are a Canadian professional soccer team, which currently plays in the USL First Division (formerly the A-League) of the United Soccer Leagues (USL), the largest system of national soccer leagues in North America. ... The W-League is the first modern womens soccer league in the United States pyramid. ... An NCAA tournament game between Indiana University and the University of Tulsa in 2004 College soccer is a term used to describe soccer that is played by teams operated by colleges and universities as opposed to a professional league operated for exclusively financial purposes. ... The University of Portland (UP) is a private Catholic university specifically affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross; like its better known sister school, the University of Notre Dame. ... This article lists NCAA Womens soccer championships. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sinclair proved herself to be a potential star from childhood, as she was first selected to British Columbia's under-14 girls' all-star team at age 11. She went on to lead club teams to six league titles, five provincial titles, and two top-five national finishes, as well as leading her high school team at South Burnaby Secondary School to three league championships. She also played for Canada's under-18 national team before making her debut at senior level in the 2000 Algarve Cup, leading Canada in goal scoring at that event with three. Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Splendour without diminishment) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Area 944,735 km² (5th) • Land 925,186 km² • Water 19,549 km² (2. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Algarve Cup is an annual invitational tournament in womens football (soccer) that has been held in the Algarve region in Portugal. ...

In 2001, she arrived at the University of Portland, and made an immediate impact on that already-strong program. She had 23 goals and 8 assists, leading all freshmen in NCAA Division I in total scoring, was named Freshman of the Year by Soccer America magazine, and was a consensus All-America. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced NC-Double- A) is a voluntary and often controversial association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ...

She was also very active internationally during this time. In 2002, she scored seven goals in the Women's Gold Cup, tying her for the tournament lead with Hooper and the USA's Tiffeny Milbrett, a Portland alum. Also in 2002, she played for Canada in the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship. Sinclair's 10 goals in the tournament, still a record, helped lead Canada to a surprising second-place finish, and earned her both the Golden Boot as leading scorer and Golden Ball as tournament MVP. 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tiffeny Carleen Milbrett (born October 23, 1972) is a womens soccer player who was born in Portland, Oregon. ... The FIFA U-20 Womens World Championship is a world championship football tournament, organized by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), for national teams of women under age 20. ...

In the 2002 college season for Portland, she led Division I in goals with 26. Her last two goals were in that season's national championship game against conference rival Santa Clara, the second of which was a golden goal that gave the Pilots the national championship. Sinclair earned three different national Player of the Year honors, and was a finalist for the Hermann Trophy, the most prestigious Player of the Year award in college soccer. She was also West Coast Conference Player of the Year, and was again a consensus All-American. In the wake of her success for Canadian national teams and in U.S. college soccer, she was also named by The Globe and Mail (Toronto) as one of the 25 most influential people in Canadian sports in 2002. Santa Clara University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. ... The Golden goal was a method used in football (soccer) to decide the result of games in elimination matches which end in a draw after the end of ordinary time (90 minutes). ... The Hermann Trophy is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the United Statess top male and female college soccer players. ... The West Coast Conference is an NCAA collegiate athletic conference consisting of eight member schools in California, Oregon, and Washington. ... The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ...

Sinclair chose to redshirt in 2003 in order to play for Canada at the Women's World Cup. She scored three goals in that tournament as Canada finished a better-than-expected fourth. 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The FIFA Womens World Cup 2003 was held in the United States and won by Germany. ...

She returned to Portland in 2004, scoring 22 goals that season, and was again named WCC Player of the Year and a consensus All-American. She also won the Hermann Trophy that season. Her 2005 senior season at Portland proved to be historic, as she set an all-time Division I goal-scoring record with 39. Sinclair capped off her career for the Pilots with two goals in a 4-0 rout of UCLA in the national title game. This performance also gave her a career total of 25 goals in NCAA tournament play, also a record. She was again named WCC Player of the Year, becoming only the second player in conference history to be so honored three times. Sinclair was also named Academic All-American of the Year by ESPN The Magazine (she carries a 3.75 grade point average in life sciences). She is also likely to receive other major national honors yet to be announced. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university located in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... ESPN The Magazine is a biweekly sports magazine affiliated with the ESPN sports network. ... A grade in education can mean either a teachers evaluation of a students work or a students level of educational progress, usually one grade per year (often denoted by an ordinal number, such as the 3rd Grade or the 12th Grade). This article is about evaluation of...

External links

• Official national team profile
• Official Portland profile