| Selin Kuralay |
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AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM:
Member of the Australian National Team that competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens...played in three of Australia's four matches and was part of the first Australian team to win a match in a senior women's FIFA event (1-0 over Greece)...reached the quarterfinals of the 2004 Olympiad... has 13 caps with the Australian National team since being called up in 2004...played in the 2005 Four Nations Tournament held in China and faced Germany, China and Russia...participated in the 2004 Oceanic Olympic Qualifiers in April at the age of 19 in her first ever full national team duty...made her international debut in Australia's 2-0 win over New Zeland...was tied for the tournament led for goals scored with five in two matches including a hat trick versus Papua New Guinea...played in the 2004 Youth World Cup...competed at the inaugural U-19 FIFA Women's World Championship in Canada in 2002...started three of four matches in the tournament...helped guide Australia to the quarterfinals where they lost 4-3 to Brazil on a golden goal...Kuralay's penalty kick tied the game at 3-3 and sent the match into extra time...a member of the national team for Oceanic U-19 qualifiers in Tonga (2002)...awarded Top Goal Scorer for the tournament with nine goals...five of her nine goals came against Samoa in the semifinals...also recorded a hat trick versus host country Tonga as a first half substitute...first appearance with the national team came in 2000 when she traveled to the U-17 adidas Cup in Houston, TX.
STATE/CLUB: Member of the WNSL's Victoria Vision...won the WNSL Rising Star Award for 2000-2001 becoming the first Victorian to win a WNSL award...won the youth National Championship 1999 as a member of the Victorian team...member of the boy's Victorian State U-13 team, which won the National Championship...won the Victorian Women's Premier League in 2000 with Ringwood City and in 2001 with Box Hill.
PERSONAL: First played at the age of six with a local boy's team...had reconstructive surgery on her knee in 2003...also speaks Turkish.