# Jen Buczkowski
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{{short description|American former soccer midfielder|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Jen Buczkowski
| image = Jen Buczkowski2010.jpg
| caption = Jen Buczkowski, 2010
| fullname = Jennifer Rose Buczkowski[{{cite web |url=https://und.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/13279__w_soccer__mg-players2-04.pdf |title=2004 Women's Soccer |work=[Notre Dame Fighting Irish](/source/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish) |year=2004 |access-date=November 20, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120155958/https://und.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/13279__w_soccer__mg-players2-04.pdf |archive-date=November 20, 2021}}]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|04|04}}
| birth_place = [Park Ridge](/source/Park_Ridge%2C_Illinois), [Illinois](/source/Illinois), U.S.[{{cite web|url=http://www.und.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/buczkowski_jen00.html|title=Jen Buczkowski profile|publisher=[Notre Dame Fighting Irish](/source/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617052515/http://www.und.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/buczkowski_jen00.html|archive-date=June 17, 2011}}]
===University of Notre Dame===
Buczkowski attended the [University of Notre Dame](/source/University_of_Notre_Dame) from 2003–2007 and set the Notre Dame record for 103 career games played. During her career at Notre Dame, she scored 77 points (22nd in Notre Dame history), 20 goals, 37 assists and 97 starts. Buczkowski was a three-time NSCAA All-American.[{{cite web|title=Eclipse Select alumna Buczkowski re-signs with WPS's Independence|url=http://triblocal.com/elk-grove-village/community/stories/2012/01/eclipse-select-alumna-buczkowski-re-signs-with-wpss-independence/|publisher=Chicago Tribune Local|accessdate=October 8, 2012}}] The team went on to win the national championship.
===Philadelphia Independence (WPS)===
The following season, Buczkowski was selected in the first round of the expansion draft by the [Philadelphia Independence](/source/Philadelphia_Independence). During the 2011 season, Jen won the "Iron Women Award" for playing every minute of the season.[{{cite web|title=Reynolds Among Small Group of WPS Iron Women|date=August 12, 2011 |url=http://equalizersoccer.com/2011/08/12/reynolds-aomng-small-group-of-wps-iron-women/|publisher=Equalizer Soccer|accessdate=October 8, 2012}}]
From 2009–2010, Buczkowski started in 38 of 41 games played in the [WPS](/source/Women's_Professional_Soccer).[{{cite web|title=Red Stars Sign Buczkowski & Sitch |url=http://chicagoredstars.net/2012/03/09/red-stars-sign-buczkowski-sitch/ |publisher=Chicago Red Stars |accessdate=February 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613205305/http://chicagoredstars.net/2012/03/09/red-stars-sign-buczkowski-sitch/ |archivedate=June 13, 2012 }}] The team would go on to come in second to the [Western New York Flash](/source/Western_New_York_Flash) after penalty kicks during the WPSL final.[{{cite web|title=Injuries play major role in WPSL Elite final|date=July 28, 2012 |url=http://equalizersoccer.com/2012/07/28/injuries-play-major-role-in-wpsl-elite-final/|publisher=Equalizer Soccer|accessdate=February 3, 2013}}]
===FC Kansas City (NWSL), 2013–2016===
In 2013, she signed with [FC Kansas City](/source/FC_Kansas_City) for the inaugural season of the [NWSL](/source/National_Women's_Soccer_League).[{{cite web|title=Q&A time with FC Kansas City's Jen Buczkowski|url=http://www.nwslnews.com/question-and-answer-time-with-fc-kansas-citys-jen-buczkowski-interview/|publisher=NWSL News|accessdate=February 3, 2013|archive-date=February 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207012403/http://www.nwslnews.com/question-and-answer-time-with-fc-kansas-citys-jen-buczkowski-interview/|url-status=dead}}] She started all 66 regular-season matches in the first three seasons of the NWSL for FCKC, the only player in the whole league to do so. Buczkowski won the NWSL Championship in 2014 & 2015 with FCKC.["Breakers waive Ketler; Ochs has Surgery", ''The Equalizer'',http://equalizersoccer.com/2015/05/07/breakers-waive-ketlen-ochs-surgery/ accessed May 7, 2015][{{cite news|last1=Gier|first1=Kathleen|title=Jen Buczkowski keeps FC Kansas City consistent|url=http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mls/fc-kansas-city/article35077047.html|accessdate=October 5, 2015|work=The Kansas City Star|date=September 12, 2015}}]
She retired after FCKC's match on May 13, 2016, as she had enrolled in the DPT Program at the [University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas) and her school schedule prevented her from playing soccer.[{{cite web|url=https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mls/fc-kansas-city/article76190362.html|title=FC Kansas City midfielder Jen Buczkowski announces retirement|accessdate=July 19, 2018|date=May 6, 2016}}]
==International career==
Buczkowski was a member of several youth national teams. She was a member of the U-19 World Cup team in 2003 and played every minute of the U-21 Nordic Cup tournament in 2005, in which the team won the championship.[{{cite web|title=Chicago Red Star Player Joins LTSC Coaching Staff|url=http://www.ltsc.us/news_article/show/153811?referrer_id=154837|publisher=Lyons Township Soccer Club|accessdate=October 8, 2012|date = June 13, 2012}}]
==Honors and awards==
'''FC Kansas City'''
* [NWSL championship](/source/National_Women's_Soccer_League): 2014, 2015[{{cite web|title=FC Kansas City Earns 2014 NWSL Championship|url=http://www.fckansascity.com/2014/08/31/fc-kansas-city-earns-2014-nwsl-championship/|publisher=FC Kansas City|accessdate=November 12, 2014|date=August 31, 2014}}]
==Coaching career==
Buczkowski joined the [University of Notre Dame](/source/University_of_Notre_Dame) as Assistant Coach in 2007.