Career
A tough-tackling full back who can also play in midfield, Champ previously played for FA Forest, Snow and Landscape club Chelsea Ladies, Arsenal and Pali Blues as well as spending three spells with Millwall Lionesses. She has also represented England at youth and senior level Champ began her career with nine years at Millwall Lionesses, moving to Arsenal in 2001.
She spent six years with Arsenal, working in the club laundry when not playing, before returning to Millwall during 2007-2008.
Champ had sat out Arsenal"s quadruple-winning 2006-2007 season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury. In the 2008-2009 season, she helped Millwall to the FA Women"s Premier League Southern Division title, and with it a return to the FA Women"s Premier League National Division.
Early in the 2009-2010 campaign Champ switched to Chelsea and scored against former club Arsenal in a 3–2 home League defeat in November 2009. She played for North American West-League club Pali Blues in summer 2010.
She returned to Chelsea for the inaugural 2011 FA Forest, Snow and Landscape and played in 13 of the club"s 14 league matches.
In 2012 Champ played for Philadelphia Fever in America"s Women"s Premier Soccer League Elite (WPSL Elite). She agreed a brief return to Millwall in January 2013, before heading off again to America in April 2013, with North Jersey Valkyries. In 2014 Champ was employed as a soccer coach by the Boston Breakers.
She coached the National Women"s Soccer League club"s academy teams and intended to play for the reserve team as player-coach.
Champ played for England in the 2002 Fédération internationale de football association U-19 Women"s World Championship and reached the quarter-final. In February 2003 Champ made her Senior debut in a 1–0 friendly defeat in Italy.
Champ worked as a postwoman in her native Kent.
