Brandi Denise Chastain is an American retired soccer player,two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion,two-time Olympic gold-medalist,coach,and sports broadcaster. She played for the United States national team from 1988 to 2004. In her 192 caps on the team,she scored 30 goals playing primarily in the defender and midfielder positions. She scored a World Cup-winning penalty shootout goal against China in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final.
Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm is an American former professional soccer player,two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion. Hailed as a soccer icon,she played as a forward for the United States national team from 1987 to 2004. Hamm was the face of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA),the first professional women's soccer league in the United States,where she played for the Washington Freedom from 2001 to 2003. She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels and helped the team win four NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship titles.
Michelle Anne Akers is an American former soccer player who starred in the 1991 and 1999 Women's World Cup and 1996 Olympics victories by the United States. At the 1991 World Cup,she won the Golden Shoe as the top scorer,with ten goals.
Esports,short for electronic sports,is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized,multiplayer video game competitions,particularly between professional players,played individually or as teams.
Julie Maurine Foudy is an American retired soccer midfielder,two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1988 to 2004. Foudy finished her international career with 274 caps and served as the team's captain from 2000 to 2004 as well as the co-captain from 1991 to 2000. In 1997,she was the first American and first woman to receive the FIFA Fair Play Award.
Heather Ann O'Reilly is an American professional women's soccer player who plays as a midfielder for the North Carolina Courage. She played for the United States women's national soccer team (USWNT),with whom she won three Olympic gold medals and a FIFA Women's World Cup. From 2003 to 2006,she played college soccer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). During her club career,O'Reilly played for the New Jersey Wildcats,Sky Blue FC (WPS),Boston Breakers,FC Kansas City (NWSL),Arsenal Ladies,North Carolina Courage (NWSL),and Shelbourne (WNL).
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School is a private,Catholic,college-preparatory,coeducational high school in Olney,Maryland,an unincorporated area of Montgomery County,Maryland. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
Briana Collette Scurry is an American retired soccer goalkeeper,and assistant coach of the Washington Spirit as of 2018. Scurry was the starting goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team at the 1995 World Cup,1996 Summer Olympics,1999 World Cup (champions),2003 World Cup,and the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. She played in the semi-final and playoff for third place in the 2007 Women's World Cup. She was a founding member of the WUSA,playing three seasons as starting goalkeeper for the Atlanta Beat (2001–2003).
Shannon Ann MacMillan is an American retired soccer player,coach,FIFA Women's World Cup champion,Olympic gold and silver medalist. Named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year for 2002,MacMillan played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1994 to 2006 and was part of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup-winning team. She won gold with the team at the 1996 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Christie Patricia Pearce is an American former professional soccer player who played as a defender. She is the former captain of the United States national team. Pearce is a three-time Olympic gold medalist,and also a two-time world champion in FIFA Women's World Cup.
Sports law in the United States overlaps substantially with labor law,contract law,competition or antitrust law,and tort law. Issues like defamation and privacy rights are also integral aspects of sports law. This area of law was established as a separate and important entity only a few decades ago,coinciding with the rise of player-agents and increased media scrutiny of sports law topics.
The San Jose State Spartans are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent San JoséState University. SJSU sports teams compete in the Mountain West Conference at the NCAA Division I level,with football competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
Megan Anna Rapinoe is an American former professional soccer player who played as a winger. She spent most of her career playing for Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. Winner of the Ballon d'Or Féminin and named The Best FIFA Women's Player in 2019,Rapinoe won gold with the national team at the 2012 London Summer Olympics,2015 FIFA Women's World Cup,and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and played at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup,where the U.S. finished second. Rapinoe co-captained the national team alongside Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan from 2018 to 2020. She previously played for the Chicago Red Stars,Philadelphia Independence,and MagicJack in Women's Professional Soccer (WPS),as well as Lyon Women in France's Division 1 Féminine.
Diana Beverly Matheson is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played for the Canada national team from 2003 to 2020 and multiple professional women's teams over the course of her career. She is best known for scoring the bronze medal-winning goal for Canada in the 92nd minute against France at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games with the senior national team.
Yael Averbuch West is an American former professional soccer player. She was formerly the executive director of the National Women's Soccer League Players Association and is the current general manager of NJ/NY Gotham FC. A retired professional soccer player,she last played as a defender for Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League.
The lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender,queer,and other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender (LGBTQ+) community is prevalent within sports across the world.
The participation of transgender people in competitive sports,a traditionally sex-segregated institution,is a controversial issue,particularly the inclusion of transgender women and girls in women's sports.
Arike Ogunbowale is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish,before being drafted by the Wings with the fifth overall pick of the 2019 WNBA draft. She was the Most Outstanding Player of Notre Dame's 2018 national title run,hitting game-winning baskets in both the semi-final and championship game.
Sky Brown is a British-Japanese professional skateboarder and surfer who competes for Great Britain. She is the youngest professional skateboarder in the world,and has also won the American TV programme Dancing with the Stars:Juniors. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics,where she won a bronze medal in the park event,making her the country's youngest ever medallist. She won the park event at the 2023 World Skateboarding Championship.
Marla Messing is an American attorney and sports executive. She is known primarily for her work in soccer –first with the 1994 FIFA World Cup and as one of the first executives of Major League Soccer in 1995. In 1996,Messing became president and chief executive officer of the committee that organized the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Most recently,Messing served as the interim CEO of the National Women's Soccer League. From 2019 to 2021 she was the CEO of USTA Southern California.
