Heather ReidHeather Reid AM was elected to the Board of Football Federation Australia in 2018 and held the position of Deputy Chair in 2019. She is the first woman CEO of a national Australian football organisation and was CEO of Capital Football for 12 years. Se began playing soccer in Canberra in 1978 while working at the ANU and helped form the ACT Women’s Soccer Association in 1979. She is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to football and women’s sport and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Canberra in 2017. She was inducted into Football Federation Australia’s Hall of Fame in 2007. In 1979 she travelled to Sydney to watch the first international soccer game for women between Australia and New Zealand at Seymour Shaw Park, an event that sparked her lifetime commitment to football. Read More Read Less