Jordan Baker (soccer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jordan Ashleigh Baker | ||
Date of birth | 1 November 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Paddington, Sydney, Australia | ||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Gymea United | |||
2007–2011 | Sutherland Shire | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013 | Illawarra Stingrays | 21 | (16) |
2013–2016 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 10 | (0) |
International career | |||
Australia U-20 | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 October 2016 |
Jordan Ashleigh Baker (born 1 November 1996) is an Australian soccer player, who last played for Western Sydney Wanderers in the Australian W-League.
Playing career
[edit]Soccer
[edit]Baker played youth football with Gymea United FC and Sutherland Shire FA from 2007 to 2011.[1]
Baker played for Western Sydney Wanderers in the 2013–14 W-League and re-signed with the Wanderers for the 2014–15 W-League season.[2]
Baker represented the Australia Schoolgirls and Australian under-20 teams.[3]
Baker again was selected in the Wanderers squad for the 2015–16 W-League.[4]
Rugby league
[edit]In 2017, Baker began playing rugby league, where she represented Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.[5] She was one of the competitions top-scorers in 2018.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Haigh, Paul (30 September 2014). "Three talented Sutherland Shire Football Association women players scoring goals in W-League". St George and Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ Cohen, Mitch (25 August 2014). "Star Stingrays trio back to Sydney". Illawarra Mercury.
- ^ Cohen, Mitch (30 March 2015). "Jordan Baker has the golden touch". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ Parkinson, Andrew (16 October 2015). "Western Sydney Wanderers from shire beaches will be at home in west". St George and Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ Airth, Jocelyn (26 April 2017). "From Soccer to Rugby League". Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ Bollen, Fiona (12 April 2018). "NRL could pick up cross code female athletes but it may not last". Perth Now. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
External links
[edit]- Jordan Baker at Soccerway
Categories:
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Australian women's soccer players
- Western Sydney Wanderers FC (A-League Women) players
- A-League Women players
- Footballers from the City of Westminster
- People from Paddington
- Women's association football forwards
- Australian female rugby league players
- Australian women's soccer biography stubs
- Australian soccer forward stubs