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Lucy Philomena Maino (born 2 August 1995) is a Papua New Guinean footballer and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Papua New Guinea 2019. She is a two-time Pacific Games gold medalist as part of the Papua New Guinean women's national football team.

Lucy Maino

Personal information
Full name	Lucy Philomena Maino
Date of birth	(1995-08-02) 2 August 1995 (age 27)[1]
Place of birth	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea[1]
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s)	Right back[2]
Youth career
Team
	Heritage Christian HS
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014–2015	College of the Canyons Cougars	41	(1)
2017–2018	Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans	33	(3)
National team‡
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2015–	Papua New Guinea	4[lower-alpha 1]	(2)
Honours Women's soccer Representing  Papua New Guinea Pacific Games 2015 Port Moresby Team 2019 Apia Team OFC Nations Cup Winner 2022 Fiji
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 July 2022

Education

Lucy Maino is an alumna of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (UH Hilo) in Hilo, Hawaiʻi. She majored in business administration graduating in 2019.[1]

Junior football

Youth

Maino attended and played for the Heritage Christian School in North Hills, graduating in 2014.[1]

College

In 2014–15, she attended the College of the Canyons (COC), a public community college, in Santa Clarita, California. She appeared in 40 of her teams' 41 matches over two seasons (2014 and 2015). She starred in her teams win-draw-loss record of 29-4-8 during that time and won two conference championships. They were ranked number 13 in the national junior college poll in 2015.[1]

NCAA

From 2016–18, she attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo as a recognized NCAA Division II student athlete. She spent the whole of 2016 as a red-shirt for the Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans. On 2 September, 2017, she made her debut for the Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans with a 2–0 win over Pace University. She would go on to cap 33 games for the Vulcans in two seasons (2017–18).[1]

Representative career

Summer Youth Olympics

In 2010, Lucy Maino made her debut appearance in Papua New Guinea colours when she was named to the Papua New Guinea Girls Under-15 football team to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.

Pacific Games

In 2015, Maino made her first senior appearance for the Papua New Guinea women's national football team at the Pacific Games in 2015. She played as right back for the national squad as the team went through the tournament undefeated winning gold against New Caledonia by a goal to nil.[7]

In 2019, she made her second Pacific Games team to play in Apia, Samoa. Maino was also named as co-captain of the national squad. During the Games, she scored 2 goals in the pool stages to help the team advance into the play-off for gold. In the gold medal match, Maino and the PNG women's football team successfully defended their title from 2015 this time defeating hosts Samoa, 3–1.

OFC Nations Cup

In 2022, Maino was part of the historic PNG squad that won the country's first Nations Cup title at the 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup in Suva, Fiji. She was awarded player of the match after their 2–1 win over Tahiti in the pool stages.

Beauty pageant

Personal life

Notes

References

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