Shanice Alfred
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 29 August 2001 | ||
| Place of birth | Soufrière, Saint Lucia | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Airdrie & District SA | |||
| Calgary Blizzard SC | |||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019 | MacEwan Griffins | 1 | (0) |
| 2021–2023 | Seneca Sting | 25 | (48) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024 | Pickering FC | 2 | (0) |
| 2024 | → Pickering FC B | 2 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020 | Guyana U20 | ||
| 2022– | Guyana | 6+ | (3+) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 30 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 3 December 2023 | |||
Shanice Alfred (born 29 August 2001) is a footballer who plays as a forward. Born in Saint Lucia, she plays for the Guyana women's national team.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Alfred was born in St. Lucia, before later moving to Canada at age four.[1] She began playing youth soccer at age seven with Airdrie & District SA.[1] She later played youth soccer with Calgary Blizzard SC.[2]
College career
[edit | edit source]In 2019, she began attending MacEwan University, where she played for the women's soccer team.[3]
In 2020, she moved to Ontario and began attending Seneca College. She made her debut on September 18, 2021, netting a hat trick in a 9–0 victory over the Sault Cougars and was named the school Athlete of the Week.[4][5] In 2021, she was named the OCAA Women's Soccer Central Division Player of the Year, and was named to the OCAA Women's Soccer Central Division All-Star Team and a CCAA Women's Soccer All-Canadians.[6] On September 13, 2022, she scored four goals in the season opener, in a 10–1 victory over the Loyalist Lancers.[7] She was twice named the Athlete of the Week in 2022,[8][9] and helped the team advance to the CCAA semi-finals.[10] In 2022, she was named an OCAA Women's Soccer East Division First Team All-Star.[11] On October 14, 2023, Alfred tied an Ontario Colleges Athletic Association record, scoring nine goals in a single match, in a 10–0 victory over the Loyalist Lancers.[12][13] In 2023, she helped Seneca win their first ever CCAA national title, also setting a team record with 25 goals in a single season.[14] She was named the OCAA Women's Soccer Player of the Year, the OCAA Top Scorer, and was named an OCAA East Division League First-Team All-Star and CCAA All-Canadian.[15]
Club career
[edit | edit source]In 2024, she joined Pickering FC in League1 Ontario.
International career
[edit | edit source]Alfred was eligible to represent St. Lucia (where she was born and where her mother is from), Guyana (where her father is from), and Canada (where she was raised).[16][17]
In March and April 2017, she attended training camps with the Canada U17 team.[1]
In 2020, she began playing with the Guyana U20 team at the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.[16] She later played with the Guyana senior team.[18][19]
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Shanice Alfred at Canada SoccerLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 2001 births
- Living people
- Guyanese women's footballers
- Women's association football forwards
- Guyana women's international footballers
- People from Soufrière Quarter
- Saint Lucian people of Guyanese descent
- Sportspeople of Guyanese descent
- Saint Lucian emigrants to Canada
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- Canadian women's soccer players
- Black Canadian women's soccer players
- Canadian sportspeople of Guyanese descent
- Canadian people of Saint Lucian descent
- Guyanese people of Saint Lucian descent
- 21st-century Guyanese sportswomen
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen