Background
She was born in Bridgend and won 56 caps for the Wales women"s national football team, scoring 18 goals.
She was born in Bridgend and won 56 caps for the Wales women"s national football team, scoring 18 goals.
Harries played for Cardiff City and Bristol Academy before joining Everton Ladies in July 2009. Harries returned to Bristol Academy in February 2013. Her Cardiff City debut came versus Newton Abbot in October 2002, and she scored 15 goals in her debut season.
She made her senior debut against Moldova in the 2005-2006 season.
As a student at UWIC, Harries has twice represented Great Britain in the World University Games, playing in the 2007 tournament in Bangkok and in the 2009 tournament in Belgrade. Harries expressed disappointment at the Welsh FA refusing to allow its players to represent a Great Britain Olympic football team at the 2012 London Olympics.
In February 2011, fluent Welsh speaker Harries was appointed as a Welsh FA ambassador for female football. A knee injury sustained in November 2012 before a friendly with the Netherlands eventually brought about Harries"s retirement, after a three-year struggle to regain fitness.
She said: "the decision was made with a heavy heart but a realistic head".
In 2012 Harries qualified and began working as a PE teacher at Cardiff High School. She became the first female pundit on S4C"s Sgorio in March 2015.
Quotations: "the decision was made with a heavy heart but a realistic head".