Charmaine Hooper

Charmaine Hooper
Personal information
Full name Charmaine Elizabeth Hooper[1]
Date of birth (1968-01-15) January 15, 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Georgetown, Guyana
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1990 NC State Wolfpack 89 (58)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993 FK Donn 13 (17)
1993–1994 Lazio
1994–1998 Prima Ham FC Kunoichi
1995–1996 Rockford Dactyls
1998–2000 Chicago Cobras[2]
2001–2003 Atlanta Beat 59 (34)
2004 Chicago Cobras 4 (1)
2006 New Jersey Wildcats[3] 3 (4)
2008 Fort Worth FC
International career
1986–2006 Canada 129 (71)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Charmaine Elizabeth Hooper (born January 15, 1968) is a Canadian retired soccer player. A four-time winner of the Canadian Players of the Year award and member of the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame, Hooper played on the Canada women's national soccer team from 1986 to 2006. As a forward, she stood as Canada's record holder for the women's national team for appearances and goals scored when she retired.[4] Hooper competed in three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments: 1995 in Sweden, 1999, and 2003 in the United States. At club level, Hooper played professionally in Norway, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

Early life and education

Hooper was born on January 15, 1968, in Georgetown, Guyana.[5] She and her family moved to Zambia when Hooper was 6 years old, then later to Ottawa when she was 9.[5] She attended J. S. Woodsworth Secondary School, then later North Carolina State University.[5]

While at NCSU, Hooper was a student-athlete on the NC State Wolfpack women's soccer team. She set the record for most points in a season, most goals in a season, most points in a career, and most goals in a career.[6] The team was Atlantic Coast Conference champions in 1988, made it to the NCAA quarterfinals in 1987 and 1990, the semifinals in 1989, and the final in 1988.[6] She made 89 appearances and scored 58 goals for the Wolfpack and graduated with a degree in food science.[5][7] Following her career, she was inducted into the NC State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.[6]

Club career

In 1993, Hooper played for FK Donn of the Norwegian Toppserien.[8] She scored 17 goals in 13 league appearances.[9] After a short period with Lazio of Serie A, Hooper signed a professional contract with Japanese L. League club Prima Ham FC Kunoichi.[5] She was a highly valued player in Japan and returned to North America after four seasons: "There was nothing more to gain in Japan. I had won just about every award there. Plus there was the distance."[10]

She returned to the United States and played for the Rockford Dactyls and the Chicago Cobras of the USL W-League. She would be inducted into the inaugural class of the United Soccer League's Hall of Fame in 2002.[2]

When the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) professional league was being put together in America, Hooper signed a letter of intent but had concerns over the salary structure.[11] Hooper was selected by the Atlanta Beat in the 2000 WUSA foreign player allocation and played for the team for all three seasons of the WUSA's existence, including the championship matches in 2001 and 2003.

She returned to the W-League Cobras in 2004, then played in the same league for the New Jersey Wildcats in 2006. In 2008, she played for the Fort Worth FC of the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL), her final season of club competition.

International career

Charmaine Hooper display at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Hooper made 128 appearances and scored 71 goals for Canada, at one time both national records. Her international debut came on July 7, 1986 against the United States. She represented Canada at three FIFA Women's World Cups (Sweden 1995, USA 1999 and USA 2003).

In August 2006 Hooper and Christine Latham refused to attend two exhibition games against China and fell into dispute with team coach Even Pellerud. Along with a third disgruntled player, Sharolta Nonen, they publicly called for Pellerud's removal. Alleging he had pressured them to break their club contracts in order to join Vancouver Whitecaps and had tried to fix the outcome of a USL W-League play-off by releasing certain national team players but not others.[12] Pellerud suspended the players and terminated their funding. In June 2007 an arbitrator ruled in favor of the coach. Hooper's replacement as captain Christine Sinclair strongly criticized the players' actions: "They let down their teammates and since then have done nothing to rectify it. I wouldn't want them as teammates."[13]

Hooper was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in June 2012.[14] The same year in October she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary.

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 16 April 1991 Port-au-Prince, Haiti  Costa Rica 2–0 6–0 1991 CONCACAF Women's Championship
2. 4–0
3. 18 April 1991  Jamaica 2–0 9–0
4. 4–0
5. 5–0
6. 6–0
7. 21 April 1991  Haiti 1–0 2–0
8. 4 August 1993 New Hyde Park, United States  Trinidad and Tobago 4–0 4–0 1993 CONCACAF Women's Championship
9. 12 April 1994 Milford, Trinidad & Tobago  Trinidad and Tobago 2–0 2–0 Friendly
10. 14 April 1994 San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago  United States 1–? 1–4
11. 27 July 1994 Montreal, Canada  Germany 1–0 1–2
12. 5 August 1994  Sweden 1–? 1–2
13. 13 August 1994  Jamaica 1–0 7–0 1994 CONCACAF Women's Championship
14. 5–0
15. 6–0
16. 15 August 1994  Mexico 3–0 6–0
17. 19 August 1994  Trinidad and Tobago 4–0 5–0
18. 5–0
19. 28 August 1998 Toronto, Canada  Puerto Rico 7–0 21–0 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship
16. 11–0
17. 30 August 1998  Martinique 3–0 14–0
18. 1 September 1998  Guatemala 1–0 4–0
19. 4 September 1998  Costa Rica 1–0 2–0
20. 2–0
21. 23 June 1999 Landover, United States  Norway 1–1 1–7 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
22. 26 June 1999 East Rutherford, United States  Russia 1–2 1–4
23. 24 June 2000 Foxborough, United States  Mexico 4–3 4–3 2000 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
24. 26 June 2000 Hershey, United States  China 1–2 2–3
25. 2–3
26. 28 June 2000 Louisville, United States  Guatemala 7–0 12–0
27. 9–0
28. 1 July 2000  United States 1–3 1–4
29. 3 July 2000 Foxborough, United States  China 1–1 1–2
30. 11 March 2001 Lagos, Portugal  United States 1–0 3–0 2001 Algarve Cup
31. 3–0
32. 3 October 2002 Vancouver, Canada  Haiti 1–0 11–1 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
33. 4–1
34. 6–1
35. 1 November 2002  Jamaica 2–0 9–0
36. 3 November 2002  Costa Rica 1–0 3–0
37. 2–0
38. 9 November 2002 Pasadena, United States  United States 1–1 1–2 (a.e.t.)
39. 24 September 2003 Columbus, United States  Argentina 1–0 3–0 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
40. 2 October 2003 Portland, United States  China 1–0 1–0
41. 26 February 2004 Heredia, Costa Rica  Jamaica 2–0 6–0 2004 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
42. 5 March 2004  Costa Rica 2–0 4–0
65. 23 February 2006 Aguascalientes, Mexico  Mexico 2–1 3–1 Friendly
66. 4 March 2006 Vancouver, Canada  Netherlands 1–0 3–1
67. 2–0
68. 25 June 2006 Toronto, Canada  Italy 2–0 2–1
69. 18 July 2006 Blaine, United States  Sweden 1–? 4–2
70. 2–?
71. 4–1

Personal life

She is the sister of Lyndon Hooper, also a former Canadian soccer player, and Ian Hooper, the Director of Business Operations for the Ottawa Champions Baseball Club. She is from Nepean, Ontario. She married Chuck Codd in 2002, a former University soccer coach. They have a daughter.

In 2014, she and her husband were featured on the show Fixer Upper as they selected and renovated their home, which ultimately became a child care center and eventually an Airbnb.[15][16]

Career statistics

Club

These statistics are incomplete and currently represent a portion of Hooper's career.

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
FK Donn 1993[9] 1. divisjon 13 17 0 0 13 17
FK Donn total 13 17 0 0 13 17
Atlanta Beat 2001[17][18] WUSA 19 12 2 1 21 13
2002[19][18] WUSA 19 11 1 0 20 11
2003[18] WUSA 21 11 2 2 23 13
Atlanta Beat total 59 34 5 3 64 37
Chicago Cobras 2004[20] USL W-League 4 1 0 0 4 1
Chicago Cobras total 4 1 0 0 4 1
New Jersey Wildcats 2006[21] USL W-League 3 4 0 0 3 4
New Jersey Wildcats total 3 4 0 0 3 4
Career total 79 56 5 3 84 59

References

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