Indi Cowie

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| name = Indi Cowie

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| fullname = Indi Armstrong Cowie{{cite web|title=Indi Cowie|url=http://www.goheels.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205497910|publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|accessdate=10 May 2015}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1994|9|24}}

| birth_place = Boca Raton, Florida
United States

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| position = Midfielder / Forward

| currentclub = North Carolina Tar Heels
(assistant coach)

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| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = CASL

| youthyears2 =

| youthclubs2 = Triangle United

| youthyears3 =

| youthclubs3 = Triangle Futbol Club

| collegeyears1 = 2012

| college1 = North Carolina Tar Heels

| years1 = 2010–2011

| clubs1 = Celtic

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| nationalyears1 = 2010

| nationalteam1 = Scotland U17{{cite web|title=Indi Cowie|url=http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/football_player_profile.cfm?page=1921&playerID=166990&squadID=14|publisher=Scottish Football Association|accessdate=10 May 2015}}

| nationalcaps1 = 3

| nationalgoals1 = 1

| manageryears1 = 2013–

| managerclubs1 = North Carolina Tar Heels
(assistant)

| ntupdate = 03:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

| pcupdate = 03:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

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Indi Armstrong Cowie (born 24 September 1994) is a Scottish American professional freestyle footballer and football coach. She became an assistant coach to Anson Dorrance at the North Carolina Tar Heels when a knee injury caused her retirement from college soccer.{{cite news|last1=McCall|first1=Mike|title=The next chapter: Why freestyle phenom Indi Cowie shelved her NCAA career at UNC|url=http://www.soccerwire.com/news/college/college-women/the-next-chapter-why-freestyle-phenom-indi-cowie-shelved-her-ncaa-career-at-unc/|accessdate=10 May 2015|publisher=SoccerWire.com|date=25 October 2013}} Cowie had previously played as a midfielder or forward for Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) club Celtic and won three caps for the Scotland women's national under-17 football team.{{cite news|last1=Winton|first1=Richard|title=Who's that girl?|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/more-scottish-football/who-s-that-girl-1.1132704|accessdate=10 May 2015|publisher=The Herald (Glasgow)|date=3 November 2011}}

Cowie was born in Florida to parents from the West of Scotland. She was inspired to take up freestyle football after observing a demonstration by John Farnworth.{{cite news|last1=Crothers|first1=Tim|title=A Soccer Phenom Puts the 'I' in Team|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/magazine/mag-27Soccer-t.html|accessdate=10 May 2015|work=The New York Times|date=25 March 2011}} In 2012 male footballer Lionel Messi picked Cowie as the winner of a global freestyle football competition tied in with the FIFA Street video game.{{cite news|last1=McIver|first1=Brian|title=Scots freestyle football star Indi Cowie is crowned world's greatest.. by Lionel Messi|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/scots-freestyle-football-star-indi-1166926|accessdate=10 May 2015|publisher=Daily Record (Scotland)|date=16 July 2012}} As of 2014, Cowie practices her skills for one to three hours per day.{{cite news|last1=Southwick|first1=Andrew|title=Fifa Street World Freestyler Indi Cowie back on home turf|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/get-inspired/27870007|accessdate=10 May 2015|publisher=BBC Sport|date=18 June 2014}} In 2015, Cowie became the first woman to do a three revolution - three full circles around the soccer ball with the foot while it is still in the air.{{cite web|last=Barnes |first=Katie |url=https://www.espn.com/espnw/athletes-life/the-buzz/story/_/id/13550791/freestyler-indi-cowie-revels-three-revolution |title=Freestyler Indi Cowie Revels in Her Three Revolution |publisher=Espn.go.com |date=2015|access-date=2015-09-02}}