Personal information | |||
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Full name | Michele Houchen | ||
Date of birth | [1] | September 23, 1965||
Place of birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Striker [2] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Oakville SC | |||
International career | |||
1987 | Canada | 5 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Michele Houchen (born September 23, 1965) is a Canadian retired soccer player who played as a striker. [2] She made five appearances and scored two goals for the Canada national team. [1] She currently serves as the Girls Junior Academy head coach for Blue Devils FC. [3]
Houchen was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1965, [1] and raised in Scarborough. [4] [2] She began playing soccer at the age of 15. [2] In 1985, she moved with her family to Oakville, Ontario, where she joined the Oakville Soccer Club. [4] In 1986, she won the Canada Soccer Women's All-Star Championship. [1]
In July 1986, Houchen was one of the 23 players selected to participate in the first-ever Canada national team camp in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [1] On July 15, 1987, at the age of 21, she made her debut for the national team in a 2–0 friendly loss to Sweden at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minnesota. [1] [5] Later that year, she made the roster for the 1987 Women's World Invitational Tournament in Taiwan. [1] On December 11, she scored twice in a 2–0 win over Hong Kong in Kaohsiung City. [6] [7] On December 19, she made her 5th and final national team appearance, in a 4–0 loss to the United States in Taipei. [8] Houchen was part of the national team player pool for a total of five years, from 1986 to 1991. [3]
In 2002, Houchen was player-coach for the Oakville Storm, a team part of the Oakville Soccer Club, [9] and helped them win both the Ontario Women's Cup and the Jubilee Trophy. [4] [10] [1] In 2004, she was named as an assistant coach for the Ontario provincial team, and the team went on to win gold at the National All-Star Championship. [11] In 2005, she was player-coach for the Oakville Panthers as they won gold at the World Masters Games, in the age 38–44 category. [12] [11]
In 2015, Houchen founded Future Girls Soccer, an all-girls soccer academy based in Oakville. [13] As of 2022, she serves as the Girls Junior Academy head coach for Blue Devils FC. [3] Before joining the Blue Devils, she was a development director with Oakville SC. [14] [11] [15]
Houchen attended Sheridan College. [1] She is an insurance broker. [2] In 2007, she was inducted into the Oakville Sports Hall of Fame. [2]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Canada [1] | |||
1987 | 5 | 2 | |
Total | 5 | 2 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | December 11, 1987 | Kaohsiung City, Taiwan | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–0 | 1987 Women's World Invitational Tournament |
2 | 2–0 |