Lizzie Durack

Lizzie Durack
Personal information
Full name Elizabeth Christina Mary Durack[1]
Date of birth (1994-05-20) 20 May 1994
Place of birth Sydney
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Notts County
Youth career
North West Sydney Koalas
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013– Harvard Crimson
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2013 Western Sydney Wanderers 5 (0)
2013 Everton 6 (0)
2016– Notts County
National team‡
2014– England 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:35, 9 July 2016 (UTC).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15:35, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Elizabeth Christina Mary "Lizzie" Durack (born 20 May 1994) is an association football goalkeeper who has played for the England national team. She plays college soccer for Harvard Crimson and signed for FA WSL club Notts County in June 2016.

Club career

Durack played alongside Chloe Logarzo for five years at the North West Sydney Koalas, and played on an Australian under-19 schoolgirl team which toured Britain and Ireland in 2012.[2] In the 2012–13 W-League season, Durack played for expansion team Western Sydney Wanderers. She was back-up goalkeeper to Þóra Björg Helgadóttir.[3]

When Durack travelled to England to train with the England women's national under-19 football team in early 2013, the Football Association found her a place at Everton, where she understudied experienced but injury-prone veteran Rachel Brown.[4] Later that year Durack took up a place at Harvard University, to study human development regenerative biology and play for the varsity soccer team.[5]

In June 2016 Durack joined Notts County.[6] The Lady Pies were in the market for a goalkeeper after their first choice Carly Telford suffered torn ankle ligaments a few days previously.[7]

International career

Durack attended the New South Wales Institute of Sport and was a member of the Australia women's national under-17 soccer team, before the coach rejected her as not good enough for international level.[8][9]

Later the English Football Association e-mailed Harvard University asking for details of any players who were eligible for their women's national teams. As Durack's mother was born and raised in Doncaster, her name was put forward and she was invited to try out for the England women's national under-19 football team.[10]

She was named as one of ten "emerging talents" by UEFA after helping England reach the final of the 2013 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.[11] At the 2014 Cyprus Cup, England's senior national team coach Mark Sampson gave Durack her first cap in a six-minute substitute appearance in a 3–0 win over Finland.[12]

Later that year she played in all three of England under-20's matches at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada. In June 2016, Durack played for the England women's national under-23 football team against the United States.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 "List of Players – England" (PDF). FIFA. 4 August 2014. p. 5. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "NWS Koalas snap up star Matilda Ellyse Perry". Football NSW. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "A Wanderer in Harvard". Western Sydney Wanderers FC. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Hart, Patrick (21 August 2013). "From New South Wales to old south Wales". Swansea: UEFA. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Notts County Ladies: Jade Moore, Jo Potter and Lizzie Durack sign".
  6. ↑ "Notts County Ladies: Jade Moore, Jo Potter and Lizzie Durack sign". BBC Sport. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Carly Telford: England and Notts County Ladies goalkeeper out for up to three months". BBC Sport. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  8. ↑ Odong, Ann (25 September 2013). "Lizzie Durack's journey from Wanderland to the motherland". The Women's Game. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Callow, James (29 June 2014). "England is for keeps, says rising star Lizzie Durack". The Football Association. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Anglo-Aussie Durack grasping second chance". FIFA. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  11. ↑ "Ten emerging talents from Women's U19 finals". UEFA. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  12. ↑ Lavery, Glenn (7 March 2014). "Cyprus Cup match report: Finland 0–3 England Women". The Football Association. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  13. ↑ "Purce, Durack Wrap Up Competition at Nordic Tournament". Harvard University. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.


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