Ueshima Sayaka

Uejima Sayaka is a minor character who appears in the third episode of Heartcatch Pretty Cure!. In this episode, she has a central role as the victim of Sasorina. She loves playing football and has played it since elementary school. Her Heart Flower is the red poinsettia

Personality
As stated by Hanasaki Tsubomi, Sayaka's Heart Flower is a red poinsettia, which in the flower language means that she is burning with passion. This passion is directed to her love for football, but it is wilting with the Heart Flower when Sayaka is discouraged at the football club's rule of not having any girls in the team. However, after her Heart Flower is purified, she regains her passion and decides not to think about the sexism anymore.

Story
When Sayaka went on elementary school, she loved playing football, and played with other boys and girls in the school's football team. However, when she starts at middle school, she is schocked to hear that girls are not allowed to enter the football club, and is about to give up after asking the coach several times. Because of this frustration, she insults Kurumi Erika's fashion club, calling it weak.

After school, Sayaka practices under a bridge, and catches Sasorina's attention. Seeing that Sayaka's Heart Flower is wilting, Sayaka's Heart Flower is stolen and used to create a Desertrian with her football ball. Half-way conscious, she watches as the Desertrian breaks havoc before it is purified by Cure Marine's Blue Forte Wave. When she wakes up, she only remembers the experriences as a dream, and believes Tsubomi and Erika's story that she trained too hard and fell asleep. As her Heart Flower is no longer wilting, she has regained her passion for football and decides to start her own football club for girls. Telling Erika that she will do like them and recruit members, she bids them farewell, not knowing that Coffret produces the Heart Seed that her Heart Flower gave them upon being purified.