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Charmaine Elizabeth Hooper, born on January 15, 1968, is a retired Canadian soccer player. She was a forward, known for her powerful play. Charmaine won the Canadian Players of the Year award four times. She is also a proud member of the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame.

Hooper played for the Canada women's national soccer team from 1986 to 2006. When she retired, she held the record for most games played and most goals scored for the Canadian women's national team. She played in three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments: in 1995, 1999, and 2003. During her club career, Charmaine played professionally in Norway, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

Early Life and School Years

Charmaine Hooper was born in Georgetown, Guyana. When she was 6 years old, her family moved to Zambia. A few years later, when she was 9, they moved to Ottawa, Canada. She went to J. S. Woodsworth Secondary School.

After high school, Charmaine attended North Carolina State University. There, she was a student and played on the NC State Wolfpack women's soccer team. She set many records for the team, including most points and goals in a single season, and most points and goals in her entire college career.

Her team, the Wolfpack, won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship in 1988. They also reached the NCAA quarterfinals in 1987 and 1990, the semifinals in 1989, and the final game in 1988. Charmaine played in 89 games and scored 58 goals for the Wolfpack. She earned a degree in food science. In 2014, she was honored by being added to the NC State Athletic Hall of Fame.

Playing for Clubs

In 1993, Charmaine Hooper played for FK Donn in Norway. She scored 17 goals in just 13 games. After a short time with Lazio in Italy, she signed a professional contract with Prima Ham FC Kunoichi in Japan. She was a very important player in Japan. After four seasons, she decided to return to North America. She felt she had achieved everything she could in Japan.

Back in the United States, she played for the Rockford Dactyls and the Chicago Cobras in the USL W-League. In 2002, she was part of the first group of players to be inducted into the United Soccer League's Hall of Fame.

When the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) professional league started in America, Charmaine joined the Atlanta Beat. She played for the team for all three years the WUSA league existed. She even played in the championship games in 2001 and 2003.

After the WUSA, she returned to the W-League. She played for the Chicago Cobras again in 2004 and then for the New Jersey Wildcats in 2006. Her final season playing for a club was in 2008, when she played for the Fort Worth FC in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL).

Playing for Canada

Charmaine Hooper display at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Charmaine Hooper played 128 games and scored 71 goals for Canada. For a time, these were both national records. Her first game for Canada was on July 7, 1986, against the United States. She proudly represented Canada in three FIFA Women's World Cups: in Sweden in 1995, and in the USA in both 1999 and 2003.

In August 2006, Charmaine Hooper and Christine Latham did not attend two friendly games against China. This led to a disagreement with their team coach, Even Pellerud. Along with another player, Sharolta Nonen, they spoke out about the coach. Pellerud then suspended the players and stopped their funding. In June 2007, an independent person reviewed the situation and decided in favor of the coach. Christine Sinclair, who became captain after Hooper, said that the players had let down their teammates.

In June 2012, Charmaine Hooper was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. Later that year, in October, she was also inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary.

International Goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	16 April 1991	Port-au-Prince, Haiti	Costa Rica	2–0	6–0	1991 CONCACAF Women's Championship
2.				4–0
3.	18 April 1991		Jamaica	2–0	9–0
4.				4–0
5.				5–0
6.				6–0
7.	21 April 1991		Haiti	1–0	2–0
8.	4 August 1993	New Hyde Park, United States	Trinidad and Tobago	4–0	4–0	1993 CONCACAF Women's Championship
9.	12 April 1994	Milford, Trinidad & Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	2–0	2–0	Friendly
10.	14 April 1994	San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago	United States	1–?	1–4
11.	27 July 1994	Montreal, Canada	Germany	1–0	1–2
12.	5 August 1994		Sweden	1–?	1–2
13.	13 August 1994		Jamaica	1–0	7–0	1994 CONCACAF Women's Championship
14.				5–0
15.				6–0
16.	15 August 1994		Mexico	3–0	6–0
17.	19 August 1994		Trinidad and Tobago	4–0	5–0
18.				5–0
19.	28 August 1998	Toronto, Canada	Puerto Rico	7–0	21–0	1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship
16.				11–0
17.	30 August 1998		Martinique	3–0	14–0
18.	1 September 1998		Guatemala	1–0	4–0
19.	4 September 1998		Costa Rica	1–0	2–0
20.				2–0
21.	23 June 1999	Landover, United States	Norway	1–1	1–7	1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
22.	26 June 1999	East Rutherford, United States	Russia	1–2	1–4
23.	24 June 2000	Foxborough, United States	Mexico	4–3	4–3	2000 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
24.	26 June 2000	Hershey, United States	China	1–2	2–3
25.				2–3
26.	28 June 2000	Louisville, United States	Guatemala	7–0	12–0
27.				9–0
28.	1 July 2000		United States	1–3	1–4
29.	3 July 2000	Foxborough, United States	China	1–1	1–2
30.	11 March 2001	Lagos, Portugal	United States	1–0	3–0	2001 Algarve Cup
31.				3–0
32.	3 October 2002	Vancouver, Canada	Haiti	1–0	11–1	2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
33.				4–1
34.				6–1
35.	1 November 2002		Jamaica	2–0	9–0
36.	3 November 2002		Costa Rica	1–0	3–0
37.				2–0
38.	9 November 2002	Pasadena, United States	United States	1–1	1–2 (aet)
39.	24 September 2003	Columbus, United States	Argentina	1–0	3–0	2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
40.	2 October 2003	Portland, United States	China	1–0	1–0
41.	26 February 2004	Heredia, Costa Rica	Jamaica	2–0	6–0	2004 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
42.	5 March 2004		Costa Rica	2–0	4–0
65.	23 February 2006	Aguascalientes, Mexico	Mexico	2–1	3–1	Friendly
66.	4 March 2006	Vancouver, Canada	Netherlands	1–0	3–1
67.				2–0
68.	25 June 2006	Toronto, Canada	Italy	2–0	2–1
69.	18 July 2006	Blaine, United States	Sweden	1–?	4–2
70.				2–?
71.				4–1

Personal Life

Charmaine Hooper has two brothers. One of them, Lyndon Hooper, was also a Canadian soccer player. Her other brother, Ian Hooper, works in baseball. Charmaine is from Nepean, Ontario.

In 2002, she married Chuck Codd, who was a college soccer coach. They have a daughter together. In 2014, Charmaine and her husband were featured on the TV show Fixer Upper. They chose and renovated their home, which later became a child care center and then an Airbnb.

Career Statistics

Club

These statistics are not complete and show only some of Hooper's career.