Goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc has represented Canada at two consecutive Olympic Games. A 2012 bronze medallist, LeBlanc started one game in London – a 3-0 victory over South Africa.
LeBlanc has represented Canada at four FIFA Women’s World Cups and three Pan American Games where Canada won the gold medal when she stopped two penalty shots in the 2011 Pan American Games final.
Playing for the Canadian women’s national team since 1998, LeBlanc experienced the inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1999 in America. In 2010, she played in all three tournaments, which Canada won, playing a key role in Canada’s most successful year in the last decade.
LeBlanc is American-born with dual citizenship with Canada. She grew up in Maple Ridge, B.C. and played college soccer at the University of Nebraska earning a degree in Business Administration.
Goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc has
represented Canada at two consecutive
Olympic Games. A 2012 bronze medallist,
LeBlanc started one game in London – a
3-0 victory over South Africa.
LeBlanc has represented Canada at four
FIFA Women’s World Cups and three Pan
American Games where Canada won the
gold medal when she stopped two penalty
shots in the 2011 Pan American Games
final.
Playing for the Canadian women’s national
team since 1998, LeBlanc experienced the
inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1999 in
America. In 2010, she played in all three
tournaments, which Canada won, playing
a key role in Canada’s most successful year
in the last decade.
LeBlanc is American-born with dual
citizenship with Canada. She grew
up in Maple Ridge, B.C. and played
college soccer at the University of
Nebraska earning a degree in Business
Administration.
Languages spoken:
English
Idols (in sport or other):
My parents…I grew up on a small island in the caribbean called Dominica. They gave up all their successes in work and in life to come here to start over again to give my brother, my sister and I more opportunity.
Favourite activities outside of sport:
Writing…I love to write poetry; I love to travel; I love to speak…I do some motivational speaking on the side.
Sibling(s) Name(s) (date of birth):
Older sister, Sharma; Younger brother, Kurt.
