PARRIS Nikita

Date of Birth: 10 Mar 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.62/5'3''

Place of birth: LIVERPOOL

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Football	Women GBR Great Britain	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Sapporo Dome	Women's Group E #02 GBR Great Britain 2 CHI Chile 0	Finished
	Sapporo Dome	Women's Group E #07 JPN Japan 0 GBR Great Britain 1	Finished
	Ibaraki Kashima Stadium	Women's Group E #14 CAN Canada 1 GBR Great Britain 1	Finished
	Ibaraki Kashima Stadium	Women's Quarter-final #19 GBR Great Britain 3 AUS Australia 4 AET	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

FIFA Women's World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Senior	2019	France

UEFA Women's Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Senior	2017	Netherlands

Occupation:

Liverpool John Moores University, Great Britain

Languages spoken:

Olympique Lyonnais [France] since 2019

Sonia Bompastor [club], FRA; Hege Riise [national], NOR

Position style:

Forward (ol.fr, 20 Aug 2019)

Right-footed (ol.fr, 20 Aug 2019)

Sporting relatives:

Her sister Natasha Jonas is a professional boxer. As an amateur she represented Great Britain in the sport, and reached the quarterfinals of the lightweight division at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (skysports.com, 02 Jul 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 04 Feb 2020)

2016 for Great Britain Against Serbia, in Great Britain (thefa.com, 04 Jun 2016)

National league:

Division 1 Feminine [FRA] (ol.fr, 12 Jan 2020)

She began playing football at age six in Toxteth, England. (theplayerstribune.com, 30 Sep 2020; theguardian.com, 19 Jun 2019)

"This story begins with a knock on my front door when I was six years old. It was Calvin, my next-door neighbour. He wanted me to come out to play football. The court where we lived, in Toxteth, had a circle of houses, and in the middle there was a grass verge where the boys would play football. Most of them were in their early teens, far older than I was, so I guess I should have been intimidated. But that day, when I first stepped out on the grass and got picked to play for one of the teams, something just clicked inside my head. I felt like I belonged. I felt secure. I felt ready. I felt as if this was what I was meant to do." (theplayerstribune.com, 30 Sep 2020)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She also aspires to work as a physical education teacher at secondary school. (theguardian.com, 31 May 2021; ljmu.ac.uk, 01 Aug 2017)

Scottish footballer Julie Fleeting. (theplayerstribune.com, 30 Sep 2020)

Coach Mo Marley. (dailymail.co.uk, 07 Jun 2019)

She was named the Football Writers' Association [FWA] Women's Footballer of the Year for the 2018/19 season. (bbc.co.uk, 29 Apr 2019)

General Interest

General
EARLY DAYS
After joining an all-boys football team at under-nine age level, she decided to create her own all-girls team at age 11. "I started a football team myself at the age of 11 because I wanted to have a women's team in the local community. So, I gathered all my friends and family and everyone I knew. I was like, 'Come on, we could play together', and we were successful. We won the league. I always said to my mum, 'I'm going to play football for a living', and she was like, 'But girls don't play football. There's no team like the men. There's no pathway'. And I used to say, 'But there will be'." (skysports.com, 02 Jul 2019; joe.co.uk, 01 Jan 2019; gaffer.online, 21 May 2019)

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lilkeets
https://instagram.com/nikitaparris17
https://twitter.com/lilkeets

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
AET:: After Extra Time

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