Melissa Palma Julie Tancredi was born on December 27,1981 and is a Canadian retired soccer forward who played for the Canada women's national soccer team.
26 Facts About Melissa Tancredi
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Melissa Tancredi was born in Ancaster, Ontario, to parents Peter and Ann-Marie Melissa Tancredi, her father being Italian-born from Ascoli Piceno.
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Melissa Tancredi played soccer, volleyball, and track at Cathedral High School in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Melissa Tancredi was named soccer MVP and senior athlete of the year during her senior year.
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Melissa Tancredi played for the under-19 provincial team and Burlington Sting club program.
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Melissa Tancredi helped the Burlington Sting win the Canadian title and Ontario Cup and was named the Most Valuable Player of the Burlington Sting in 1999.
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Melissa Tancredi attended the University of Notre Dame in the US from 2000 to 2004 where she majored in anthropology and pre-medicine studies.
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Melissa Tancredi played on the school's soccer team, but she was sidelined her first year due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
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In 2003, Melissa Tancredi was named First Team All-American, Second Team All-American, NSCAA Second Team All-Region, Big East Defensive Player of the Year, and First Team All-Big East Conference.
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Melissa Tancredi was a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy.
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In 2004, Melissa Tancredi returned to Notre Dame after being awarded a fifth year of eligibility and was named as tri-captain.
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Melissa Tancredi helped lead the Irish to the NCAA National Championship and was named First Team All-American, Second Team All-American, First Team All-Big East, and Big East Defensive Player of the Year for a second straight season.
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In 2004, Melissa Tancredi played with the Detroit Jaguars in the W-League, scoring two goals and providing two assists in ten games played.
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In 2009, Melissa Tancredi played for the Saint Louis Athletica in the Women's Professional Soccer league.
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In 2011, Melissa Tancredi was a member of the Pitea IF in Sweden.
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Melissa Tancredi was a member of the Canadian U19 national team and trained in British Columbia with the U20 national team in 2000.
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Melissa Tancredi was a member of the 1999 national 'B' training team.
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Melissa Tancredi made her debut with Canada as a central back, starting in all five games of the 2004 Olympic qualifying tournament in Costa Rica.
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Melissa Tancredi had previously been invited to play with the Canadian national team at the 2000 Algarve Cup in Portugal.
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Melissa Tancredi was part of the Canadian team that finished second to the United States at the 2006 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup.
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In 2007, Melissa Tancredi scored the second-fastest goal in World Cup history in her first game at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.
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Melissa Tancredi won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games.
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Melissa Tancredi played for 199 minutes at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
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Melissa Tancredi was part of the bronze medal-winning teams at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, scoring four goals in the London games and two in the Rio games.
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Melissa Tancredi competed for team Canada in three World Cup final tournaments: 2007,2011 and 2015; and three Olympics: Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016.
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Melissa Tancredi is a Doctor of Chiropractic, practicing out of The Workshop Performance Clinic in Vancouver.