Broome soccer teen Sabrina Beuke kicking goals as she prepares to jet to New York to join city’s squad

Soccer has always been a big part of life for Sabrina Beuke, but now the youngster has the opportunity to kick big goals of her own. Football West Kimberley recently announced the 18-year-old would be jetting off to the Big Apple in August to join the State University of New York’s North Country CC soccer team. She said she was “ecstatic” to get the call telling her she was going to New York. “I got into soccer through playing for my school during the Kimberley Cup for a number of years and then it kind of just turned into me wanting to get into it even more,” she said. “Soccer is also a bit of a family thing so I have always had a bit of a connection with the sport. “I was over the moon when I found out I was going to be going to the US to play soccer." Beuke said she will be attending college over at SUNY while playing soccer for the college. While Beuke has aspirations to work in the medical field after college, she said the opportunity to be professionally scouted would be pretty cool. “It would be pretty amazing if I got scouted and I would be ecstatic to play for any team that would have me if that were to happen,” she said. “Although playing soccer professionally would be an amazing job, I would like to have a solid back-up plan from an educational approach." While New York is a long way from her home in Broome, Beuke will still have a family connection as her older brother, Alex, also plays college soccer just an hour away at Jamestown Community College. “We will definitely be spending as much time together as we can in New York,” she said. “We’re basically best friends so being an hour away from each other is very exciting and we’ll be able to wreak havoc on the town together." Despite her brother already making waves in America and her father Markus having been a former Australian representative youth soccer player, Sabrina said she felt no pressure to follow in family footsteps. “There’s no pressure at all and my family has completely supported me with whatever I’ve wanted to do,” she said. “We all connect through our love of soccer but we all support each other in whatever we choose to do.”