Professional footballer and coach Jess Fishlock MBE has been honoured with a Fellowship of Aberystwyth University.
Raised in Llanrumney, Fishlock recently became the first footballer to win 150 international caps for Wales. Just this week she made history once again by breaking Wales’ all-time goal-scoring record.
After making her debut in Stighag, Switzerland in 2006, she reached her 100th cap playing against Northern Ireland in Ystrad Mynach in 2017, and her historic 150th cap in Podujevo, Kosovo in April this year.
During her eighteen-year professional career, she has played for multiple championship and season title winning teams across the world, winning the UEFA Champions League with FFC Frankfurt and Lyon.
She currently plays for Seattle Reign FC as well as Wales’ national team.
She has been named Welsh Footballer of the Year five times and was awarded an MBE for services to football and the LGBT community in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2018.
Jess Fishlock was presented as Honorary Fellow by Dr Elin Royles at Aberystwyth University on Thursday 18 July 2024.
Aberystwyth University Honours 2024
Each year, Aberystwyth University confers Honorary Awards on a small number of distinguished individuals in recognition of their outstanding achievement and contribution.
The 2024 Honorary Fellows are:
- Professor Sir Stewart Cole KCMG FRS, internationally renowned microbiologist working in global health
- Jess Fishlock MBE, professional footballer and coach, who has won 150 international caps for Wales
- Clare Hieatt, co-founder of globally acclaimed ideas festival The Do Lectures and Hiut Denim Co
- David Hieatt, co-founder of Cardigan-based jeans company Hiut Denim Co and The Do Lectures
- Professor Uzo Iwobi CBE FLSW FRSA, Founder and Chief Executive of Race Council Cymru
- Dr Anna Persaud, CEO and Founder of luxury British skincare and wellness brand, This Works
- Manon Steffan Ros, award-winning author, columnist and scriptwriter
