Jody Brown
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jody Kimone Brown[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 April 2002 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Portmore, Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Benfica | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Montverde Academy | ||||||||||||||||
| College career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2023 | Florida State Seminoles | 84 | (24) | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Benfica | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Jamaica U15 | 3+ | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Jamaica U17 | 5+ | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | Jamaica U20 | 8 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Jamaica | 18 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 November 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 October 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
Jody Kimone Brown (born 16 April 2002) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a forward for Campeonato Nacional Feminino club Benfica and the Jamaica women's national team.[2] She played college soccer with the Florida State Seminoles.
Early life and education
[edit]Montverde Academy
[edit]Brown attended Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida, a town near Orlando, where she helped lead the soccer team to back-to-back state championships in 2018–19.[3] As a junior in 2019, she recorded 32 goals and 9 assists. The same year, she was named Girls Soccer Player of the Year by the Orlando Sentinel and Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer.[3]
Florida State University
[edit]After graduating from Montverde Academy,[4] Brown moved to Florida State University in August 2020.[5]
International career
[edit]Brown has represented Jamaica on the senior national team as well as the under-15, under-17, and under-20 national teams. She competed at two CONCACAF Girls' Under-15 Championship editions in (2014 and 2016), the 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship and the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualification. She made her senior debut in 2018 at the age of 16. The same year, she was the youngest player competing at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship, the qualifying tournament for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Brown was the top scorer of the tournament with four goals.[6]
At age 17, Brown was selected for Jamaica's 2019 Women's World Cup squad.[7] She made her World Cup debut during the team's first group stage match against Brazil in Grenoble.[8]
Career statistics
[edit]International goals
[edit]Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 23 July 2018 | Estadio Moderno Julio Torres, Barranquilla, Colombia |  Colombia |
2–1 | 2–1 | 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games |
| 2 | 31 August 2018 | National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica |  Trinidad and Tobago |
4–1 | 4–1 | 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification |
| 3 | 2 September 2018 |  Cuba |
4–0 | 6–1 | ||
| 4 | October 11, 2018 | H-E-B Park, Edinburg, United States | Cuba |
2–0 | 9–0 | 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship |
| 5 | 4–0 | |||||
| 6 | 7–0 | |||||
| 7 | 17 October 2018 | Toyota Stadium, Frisco, United States |  Panama |
1–0 | 2–2 | |
| 8 | 3 March 2019 | Catherine Hall Sports Complex, Montego Bay, Jamaica |  Chile |
3–2 | 3–2 | Friendly |
| 9 | 19 February 2023 | CommBank Stadium, Sydney, Australia |  Czech Republic |
1–1 | 2–3 | 2023 Cup of Nations |
Honours
[edit]Florida State Seminoles
- NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament: 2021, 2023
- ACC Women's Soccer Tournament: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- ACC Women's Regular Season Champions: 2020, 2022
Jamaica
- CONCACAF Women's Championship third place: 2018,[9] 2022[10]
Individual
- CONCACAF Women's Championship Young Player of the Tournament: 2018[11]
- CONCACAF Women's Best XI: 2018[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ List of Players – Jamaica" (PDF). FIFA. 27 May 2019. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ "Reggae Girlz count on Jody Brown". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ a b Carnahan, J. C. "Montverde Academy's Jody Brown named Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer". orlandosentinel.com. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Jody Brown Named to 2018 Concacaf XI Female Best Team". Montverde Academy Athletics. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Jody Brown". 24 July 2020. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ FIFA.com. "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ - Profile - Jamaica". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on 28 May 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Two Jacksonville soccer standouts become first from Jacksonville to compete in a Women's World Cup". WTLV. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ Miller, Nick (9 June 2019). "Brazil 3–0 Jamaica: Women's World Cup 2019 – as it happened". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Jamaica claim first-ever Women's World Cup berth". fifa.com. FIFA. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "Vanzanten's late goal earns Third Place honors for Jamaica". CONCACAF. 17 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Concacaf announces the individual awards and Best XI of the CWC". CONCACAF. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Lozano and Morgan Claim Top CONCACAF Awards". beIN SPORTS USA. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
External links
[edit]- Jody Brown – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Player profile at 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
- Jody Brown at Soccerway
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- 2002 births
- Living people
- Women's association football forwards
- Jamaican women's footballers
- Jamaica women's international footballers
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica
- Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Jamaican expatriate women's footballers
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
- Montverde Academy alumni
- Florida State Seminoles women's soccer players
- Soccer players from Florida
- People from Portmore, Jamaica
- Sportspeople from Saint Catherine Parish
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players