Tracey Wheeler

Tracey Lee Wheeler (born 26 September 1967) is an Australian former soccer goalkeeper who played for the Australia women's national soccer team from 1989 to the 2000 Summer Olympics. During that time she competed in four OFC Women's Championships in 1989, 1991, 1994, 1998 (winning the latter two) and two FIFA Women's World Cups (1995, 1999). Wheeler played for various club teams, mostly based in Sydney and then Perth. She retired from soccer in 2002. In 2008, she was inducted into the Football Federation of Australia's Hall of Fame. Since 1997, she has also worked as a physiotherapist.

Early years and personal life Tracey Lee Wheeler was born on 26 September 1967 in Sydney. She first played soccer as an 8 year-old, in a boys' team. At 13 she joined another Granville districts side, Wenty Waratahs seniors (1981–1985),

After 1991, Wheeler spent most of her club career in Western Australian teams. The latter team won the Women's National Soccer League championship for 1998–99. She first played for the Female Socceroos in the 1989 OFC Women's Championship match against New Zealand, held in Brisbane on 26 March; New Zealand won 0–3. Their coach Steve Darby named Wheeler for the squad for the 1991 OFC Women's Championship held in May in Sydney. Australian had equal points with New Zealand, however due to an inferior goal difference the Female Socceroos finished second. They lost their first game against New Zealand, but won the second. At that world cup, held in Sweden in June, the Matildas lost all three group stage games and were eliminated. She was replaced by Belinda Kitching for the rest of the tournament, which Australia won, again. Wheeler only kept for the first group stage game – a 1–1 draw against Ghana. In their group they faced Germany (0–3), Sweden (1-1) and Brazil (1–2) – they finished bottom of their group and were eliminated.