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{{Short description|Canadian soccer player}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name                 = Clare Rustad
| image                =
| image_size           =
| fullname             = Clare Ada Rustad<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canadasoccer.com/profile/?id=2794 |title=Clare Rustad |work=[[Canadian Soccer Association]] |access-date=February 6, 2021}}</ref>
| birth_date           = {{birth date and age|1983|5|27}}
| birth_place          = [[North Vancouver (city)|North Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada
| height               = {{height|m=1.78|precision=0}}
| position             = [[Midfielder]] / [[Defender (association football)|defender]]
| youthclubs1          =
| youthyears1          =
| collegeyears1 = 2001–2004 | college1 = [[Washington Huskies women's soccer|Washington Huskies]] | collegecaps1 = | collegegoals1 = 
| clubs1               = [[Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women)|Vancouver Whitecaps FC]]
| years1               = 2003–2005
| caps1                = 19
| goals1               = 0
| clubs2               = [[Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women)|Vancouver Whitecaps FC]]
| years2               = 2007
| caps2                = 12
| goals2               = 0
| clubs3               = [[Toronto Lady Lynx]]
| years3               = 2009–2010
| caps3                = 14
| goals3               = 2
|nationalyears1 = 2002 |nationalteam1 = [[Canada women's national under-20 soccer team|Canada U-19]] |nationalcaps1 =6 |nationalgoals1 =1
| nationalteam2        = [[Canada women's national soccer team|Canada]]
| nationalyears2       = 2000–2008
| nationalcaps2 =  45
| nationalgoals2 = 3
}}

'''Clare Ada Rustad''' (born May 27, 1983) is a Canadian broadcaster and former [[Association football|soccer]] [[midfielder]]. Her last club was the [[Toronto Lady Lynx]] in 2010. She played for [[Canada women's national soccer team]] between 2000 and 2008, making 45 appearances and scoring three goals.

==Playing career==

===Club===
Rustad played collegiate soccer for the [[Washington Huskies women's soccer|University of Washington]] between 2001 and 2004, and professionally for [[Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women)|Vancouver Whitecaps FC]]. She is a distinguished alumnus of Gordon Head Soccer Association.

===International===
Rustad competed for the Canada national under-19 soccer team at the [[2002 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship]], winning the silver medal.<ref name="FIFA"/> She made her international debut for Canada on June 26, 2000 against [[China women's national football team|China]] in the [[2000 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup]]. Rustad scored her first goal for the senior team on September 4, 2003 in a 6-0 friendly win over [[Mexico women's national football team|Mexico]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-20 |title=National Team Match Past - Canada Soccer |url=https://canadasoccer.com/national-team-match-past/?matchId=673 |access-date=2025-05-18 |language=en-CA}}</ref> She last represented Canada at the [[Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2008 Olympics]] in [[Beijing]], reaching the quarterfinals and retiring from international football afterwards.<ref name="FIFA"/>

==Broadcasting career==
Rustad has served as a soccer analyst on [[CBC Television|CBC]], [[The Sports Network|TSN]] and [[Sportsnet]] for events including the Pan Am Games, the FIFA Women's World Cup, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Clare Rustad bio |url=https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/bio/dr.-clare-rustad |website=CBC Media Centre |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref> Rustad was the colour commentator at the [[2024 Summer Olympics|2024 Paris Olympics]] for the CBC.

==Personal life==
Rustad grew up on [[Saltspring Island]] in [[British Columbia]]. She began medical school at the [[University of Toronto]] in 2008 and graduated in 2012. She has a [[molecular biology]] degree from the [[University of Washington]] and a master's degree in [[epidemiology]] from the [[University of Cambridge]]. Dr. Rustad is currently a family doctor on Saltspring Island.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TEAM |url=https://ssihealth.ca/team/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Salt Spring Island Health Centre |language=en-US}}</ref> In March 2013, Rustad joined the National Organizing Committee for the [[2015 FIFA Women's World Cup]] held in Canada.<ref name="FIFA">{{cite news | url=https://www.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=2030395/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601204538/http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=2030395/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 1, 2013 | title=Clare Rustad joins NOC for Canada 2015 | publisher=FIFA.com | date=March 14, 2013 | accessdate=August 2, 2013}}</ref>

==Honours==
* [[Canada Soccer Awards|Brian Budd Award]]: 2023
* BC Soccer Hall of Fame: 2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clare Rustad |url=https://heritage.bcsoccer.net/entries/clare-rustad/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=BC Soccer Hall of Fame & Heritage Archive |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{FIFA player|190144}}
* {{Canada Soccer|2794}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070428090930/http://www.ghsa.bc.ca/ Gordon Head Soccer Association]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080812101249/http://gohuskies.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/rustad_clare00.html Washington Huskies Profile]

{{Canada women's football squad 2008 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:1983 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States]]
[[Category:Canadian expatriate women's soccer players]]
[[Category:Canadian women's soccer players]]
[[Category:Canada women's international soccer players]]
[[Category:Soccer players from North Vancouver]]
[[Category:University of Washington alumni]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic soccer players for Canada]]
[[Category:Washington Huskies women's soccer players]]
[[Category:USL W-League (1995–2015) players]]
[[Category:Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women) players]]
[[Category:Women's association football defenders]]
[[Category:Women's association football midfielders]]
[[Category:Toronto Lady Lynx players]]
[[Category:Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen]]