Kay Joyce Hawke is an English footballer, currently playing as goalkeeper for Lincoln Ladies

Lincoln City L.F.C.

Lincoln Ladies Football Club are an English women's football club. The club were known as Lincoln City Ladies Football Club until a sponsorship deal in 2008 with OOH Media PLC made them OOH Lincoln Ladies for two seasons. However, they changed their name to Lincoln Ladies FC for their entry into...

 and England

England women's national football team

The England women's national football team represents England in international women's football. The side has been quite successful of late, qualifying for three World Cups, 1995, 2007 and 2011...

.

Club career

Hawke joined Lincoln from Blackburn Rovers Ladies

Blackburn Rovers L.F.C.

Blackburn Rovers Ladies Football Club are an English women's football club affiliated with Blackburn Rovers. In 2006 they won the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division and were promoted to the FA Women's Premier League National Division, where they played until relegation in the 2010–11...

 in the summer of 2007. She had joined Blackburn in 2005 and won her first league championship (Northern Premier

FA Women's Premier League Northern Division

The FA Women's Premier League Northern Division is a league in the third-level in the women's football pyramid in England, along with the Southern division. These two divisions are below the FA Women's Super League and National Division....

) that season.

In a September 2009 Premier League Cup match against Birmingham City

Birmingham City L.F.C.

Birmingham City L.F.C. is a semi-professional English Women's football club who are affiliated to Birmingham City F.C.. They play their home games at Knights Lane, the home of Stratford Town F.C., and were named as founder members of the FA Women's Super League which started in 2011.-History:The...

, Hawke scored with an enormous clearance but was then controversially sent-off for handling outside her area. Lincoln went on to lose 6–2.

While preparing for the 2011 FA Women's Super League season with Lincoln, Hawke joined Leeds United

Leeds United L.F.C.

Leeds United Ladies Football Club are an English women's football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. They compete in the FA Women's Premier League National Division for the 2009–10 season and are one of two Yorkshire teams in the FA Women's Premier League National Division, along with...

 on loan in August 2010. FA Women's Premier League National Division

FA Women's Premier League National Division

The FA Women's Premier League National Division is the second level of the English women's football league pyramid. From 1991 until the introduction of the summer competition FA Women's Super League the National Division functioned as the top league in England. Below it are simultaneously the...

 Leeds had a goalkeeper crisis after Carly Telford

Carly Telford

Carly Mitchell Telford is an English international football goalkeeper from County Durham. She currently plays for Chelsea Ladies.-Club career:...

 departed and Jules Draycott was injured.

United States

In May 2009 Hawke joined Ventura County Fusion

Santa Clarita Blue Heat

Santa Clarita Blue Heat is an American women’s soccer team, founded in 2008. The club was known as the Ventura County Fusion for its first two years of existence. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues W-League, the second tier of women’s soccer in the United States and Canada...

 in California for three months, with the permission of Lincoln Ladies

Lincoln City L.F.C.

Lincoln Ladies Football Club are an English women's football club. The club were known as Lincoln City Ladies Football Club until a sponsorship deal in 2008 with OOH Media PLC made them OOH Lincoln Ladies for two seasons. However, they changed their name to Lincoln Ladies FC for their entry into...

.

International career

Hawke's international debut was against Sweden

Sweden women's national football team

Sweden women's national football team are a football team officially representing Sweden in women's football. They won the unofficial European Championships in 1984, a success the team has not managed to repeat, it has however won one World Cup-silver as well as three European Cup-silvers...

 at U21 level on 1 October 2004. The match took place at Örjans Vall

Örjans Vall

Örjans Vall is a football stadium in Halmstad, Sweden, built in 1922.- History :It was finished on 30 July 1922 and was then named Halmstads Idrottsplats , it was opened by HRH The Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf, later king of Sweden, 12 000 people had been allowed entrance to see the opening,...

, home ground of Swedish side Halmstads BK

Halmstads BK

Halmstads Bollklubb, also called HBK or just Halmstad, is a Swedish football club located in Halmstad in the southwest of Sweden. The club, formed 6 March 1914, competes in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan, and has won 4 national championship titles and 1 national cup title...

, and ended 1–0 to England

England women's national football team

The England women's national football team represents England in international women's football. The side has been quite successful of late, qualifying for three World Cups, 1995, 2007 and 2011...

, giving Hawke an international debut clean sheet. Having played football for England

England women's national football team

The England women's national football team represents England in international women's football. The side has been quite successful of late, qualifying for three World Cups, 1995, 2007 and 2011...

 at U21 and U23 level Hawke finally made her full debut for England

England women's national football team

The England women's national football team represents England in international women's football. The side has been quite successful of late, qualifying for three World Cups, 1995, 2007 and 2011...

 on 14 February 2008 against Norway

Norway women's national football team

The Norway women's national football team represents Norway in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Football Association of Norway, are former European, World and Olympic champions and thus one of the most successful national teams...

 in Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

. She replaced Siobhan Chamberlain

Siobhan Chamberlain

Siobhan Rebecca Chamberlain is an English female international football goalkeeper, currently playing her club football for Bristol Academy.-Club career:...

after 73 minutes of the 2–1 win.