Jayde Riviere
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Full name | Jayde Yuk Fun Riviere[1] | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | January 22, 2001 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pickering, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||
Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Michigan Wolverines | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
Team | ||||||||||||||||
West Rouge SC | ||||||||||||||||
2005-2010 | Pickering SC | |||||||||||||||
Markham SC | ||||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | |||||||||||||||
College career | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2019– | Michigan Wolverines | 28 | (1) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2016 | Canada U15 | 7 | (4) | |||||||||||||
2016–2018 | Canada U17 | 16 | (2) | |||||||||||||
2018 | Canada U20 | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2017– | Canada | 25 | (1) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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‡ National team caps and goals correct as of February 24, 2021 |
Jayde Yuk Fun Riviere (born January 22, 2001) is a Canadian soccer defender for the Michigan Wolverines in the Big Ten Conference and the Canadian women's national team, with whom she won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Early life[]
Riviere started playing for West Rouge SC at the age of four, and later represented Pickering SC, Markham SC and the Ontario REX program.[2] As a midfielder Markham SC, where she played from ages 13 to 15, she was recognized as the Female Athlete of the Year after scoring 50 goals in a season, averaging 2.5 goals per game.[3] In August 2017, Riviere joined the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite Super REX program.[4]
College career[]
Riviere committed to play soccer at the University of Michigan as a 14-year old in 2014. She received 28 other college soccer scholarship offers before she enrolled at Michigan in the fall of 2019.[3]
By the time she began playing collegiately, she had transitioned to the defender position, at which she started 15 of the 16 games that she appeared in as a Michigan freshman en route to being selected to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team. She scored her first career goal in overtime of the Wolverines' semifinal match versus Rutgers in the Big Ten tournament.[5]
International career[]
In 2016, Riviere won a silver medal at the CONCACAF Under-15 Championships and represented Canada at the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan.[4]
On November 12, 2017, she made her international debut in a 3–1 defeat to the United States.[2] On May 25, 2019 she was named to the roster for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[6]
Personal life[]
Riviere's father was born in Dominica, while her mother was born in Hong Kong.[2]
Career statistics[]
International[]
Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Riviere goal.
List of international goals scored by Jayde Riviere
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 29 January 2020 | H-E-B Park, Edinburg, United States | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 6–0 | 11–0 | 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship |
References[]
- ^ "Women's Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 2020 Squad Lists" (PDF). FIFA.
- ^ a b c Jayde Riviere at the Canadian Soccer Association (also available in French). Retrieved September 20, 2020.
- ^ a b "Riviere is on track to be among Canada's next generation of elite soccer players". Ron Fanfair. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
- ^ a b "Jayde Riviere". Vancouver Whitecaps FC. October 3, 2017. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ^ "Jayde Riviere - Women's Soccer". University of Michigan Athletics. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
- ^ "Together We Rise: Canada Soccer announces squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019". Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- 2001 births
- Living people
- Canadian women's soccer players
- Women's association football forwards
- Canada women's international soccer players
- Sportspeople from Markham, Ontario
- Canadian people of Dominica descent
- Canadian sportspeople of Hong Kong descent
- Soccer people from Ontario
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Michigan Wolverines women's soccer players
- Black Canadian women's soccer players
- Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic soccer players of Canada
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Pickering FC (women) players
- Canadian women's soccer biography stubs