HAYLEY MOORWOOD has had an incredible year, beginning it by making her first cap-earning appearances for New Zealand at the Oceania Football Confederation's qualifying tournament in Canberra in April for soccer's 2003 Women's World Cup Finals. She scored on her debut for the SWANZ at this event, and had a very strong all-round tournament, as well as some impressive displays against American university sides in the tournament lead-up games. Her efforts on the international stage were recognised by New Zealand Soccer, who named her as a finalist in their International Young Player of the Year award. Hayley went on to clinch winners' medals with her club, Lynn-Avon United, in both the Northern Premier Women's League and Uncle Toby's Women's Knockout Cup competitions, producing some at times sensational individual performances during the course of a season in which she scored nine goals for her club from her playmaking midfield role. Her displays, as well as earning her the chance to represent her province in the National Women's Soccer League, were recognised by Hayley's naming as the Northern Premier Women's League's Player of the Year. In claiming it, Hayley became the youngest winner of the award in its twenty-five year history, and it was this achievement which earned her a share of The Jeremy Ruane Trophy at the 2003 Northern Premier Women's League prize-giving ceremony, an excellence award presented to recognise meritorious achievement at local, national or international level by a team or individual from the Northern Women's Soccer region. She carried her club form into her provincial performances, helping Auckland-Manukau to a second consecutive National Women's Soccer League championship when the competition was held in October and November, scoring three goals in the process, including the strike which secured the Challenge Cup for the champions, an honour which they successfully defended in their remaining home games. A late starter in soccer terms - Moorwood was twelve when she first started playing the game, she is embarking on a Bachelor of Sport and Recreation course at AUT in 2004, and plans to cross-credit her work to the equivalent course in America, where she plans to continue her studies and further improve her footballing prowess at the same time.