Cat Whitehill

Football player infobox
playername = Cat Whitehill


fullname =Catherine Reddick Whitehill
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1982|02|10
cityofbirth = Richmond, Virginia
countryofbirth = United States
height = height|ft=5|in=7
years = | clubs = New Jersey Wildcats| currentclub = Washington Freedom
clubnumber =
position = Defender
youthyears = 1999-2002
2000-2003
youthclubs = Briarwood Christian School
University of North Carolina
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 2000-
nationalteam = United States
nationalcaps(goals) = 123 (11)
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Cat Whitehill (born Catherine Anne Reddick on February 10, 1982) is an American football (soccer) player. She plays as a defender for the New Jersey Wildcats W-League team, and the United States women's national soccer team.

She was born in Richmond, Virginia, but grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She played soccer from an early age, winning many awards, and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a university which has produced several top American players, including Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and Eddie Pope.

She debuted for the United States women's national soccer team on 6 July 2000 against Italy, and has since become a regular for her national side.

She was married to Robert Whitehill on New Year's Eve 2005.

Whitehill is an advocate for the rights of women to participate in sports. On 1 February 2006, she testified at a committee hearing of the United States Senate in support of Title IX, the civil rights law that, among other things, provides women and girls the same opportunities to participate in school sports that boys and men are offered. In her testimony, Whitehill described having to play on boys' soccer teams as a young girl in Alabama because there were no opportunities for girls to play organized soccer there at the time.

References

* [http://ussoccer.com/bio/index.jsp_78453.html USsoccer.com bio of Whitehill]
* [http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/reddick-020106.pdf Testimony of Catherine Anne Reddick before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation]

External links

* [http://soccernet.espn.go.com/wwc/feature?id=279009 Heinrichs sticks with Reddick] - ESPN news story from 2003. Accessed 27 August 2005.
* [http://www.njwildcats.com/ New Jersey Wildcats homepage]