Tag: Ashlyn Harris

Ashlyn Harris elected to the Florida Sports Hall of Fame

Ashlyn Harris joins Vince Carter as Tar Heels elected to the Florida Sports Hall of Fame.

Former UNC goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris has been elected to the Florida Sports Hall of Fame.

Harris joins dunking sensation Vince Carter, as one of the two Tar Heels to be elected to the Florida Sports Hall of Fame. Harris joined UNC in 2005, and despite missing her first season due to ACL Knee surgery, she became instrumental to the Tar Heels’ success following that year.

In 2008 she was one half of the studded duo with Anna Rodenbough, combining 17 shutouts that season. Harris finished the year with nine goals allowed while making 28 saves for a .757 save percentage. She finished the year as a Duke Adidas Classic All-Tournament team member.

Harris helped UNC reach new heights as they won national championships in 2006, 2008, and 2009.

During her time at UNC, Harris also trained with the US National team. Since Harris’s UNC days, the goalkeeper has continued to carve out her legacy, winning 2016 NWSL Goalkeeper of the YearGoalkeeper of the Year and being a 2X FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion.

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Former USWNT star Ali Krieger to retire after 2023 NWSL season

One of the NWSL’s biggest names will hang up her boots this winter

One of the most decorated careers in U.S. Soccer history will come to a close at the end of this NWSL season.

Ali Krieger announced Thursday that she will retire at the end of the year, bringing to an end a 17-year professional career in which the Virginia native won two World Cups with the U.S. women’s national team, made three NWSL Best XI lists, and became the first American to win UEFA’s biggest club tournament for women.

“I see the 2023 season as an opportunity to celebrate with our fans and my fellow players, but make no mistake – my entire focus is on winning the NWSL championship with Gotham FC,” said Krieger in a press release from NJ/NY Gotham FC.

“In a career filled with blessings, the NWSL title is one of the only trophies I still have yet to win. I’ve worked really hard to get to this point. I’ve always been inspired by winning, competing, and a desire to be the best, and this will be my last chance to win a championship. I’m determined to work with my teammates to make this final goal a reality. To achieve this before our incredible Gotham FC fans will motivate me every day this season.”

Standout career with USWNT

Following a standout four years with the Penn State Nittany Lions, Krieger’s pro career began abroad with 1.FFC Frankfurt. There, Krieger saw instant success, as Frankfurt won the 2007-08 Frauen-Bundesliga, the Frauen DFB–Pokal, and the UEFA Women’s Cup (the forerunner to today’s Champions League).

While injuries cost her some time with Frankfurt — and necessitated a loan to the Washington Freedom in the 2009 WPS season — Krieger would spent six seasons in Germany before requesting a release from her contract to return home and join the Washington Spirit.

Krieger’s NWSL career would be split fairly evenly between stints with three clubs: four seasons with the Spirit (where she captained the club for three years), five with Orlando, and two with Gotham FC.

With the USWNT, Krieger would pick up 108 caps and was a crucial factor in two World Cups, playing all but 10 minutes in the 2011 and 2015 World Cups. The USWNT would go on to win the latter tournament, and Krieger was also part of the 2019 side that successfully defended that title, including an appearance in their 2-0 win over the Netherlands in that tournament’s final.

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Farewell Ashlyn Harris: USWNT goalkeeper, World Cup champ, celebration chronicler

The two-time World Cup winner has announced her retirement

Former U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris has announced her retirement, bringing an end to a decorated 13-year career.

Harris was a member of two World Cup-winning teams, in 2015 and 2019, earning 25 USWNT caps after making her debut in 2013.

The 37-year-old also played in all 10 seasons of the NWSL thus far, playing her final season in 2022 with NY/NJ Gotham FC alongside her wife and fellow World Cup champion Ali Krieger.

After Harris announced her retirement, Gotham FC confirmed she would be staying with the club in the newly created position of Global Creative Advisor.

“It has been my greatest honor to represent this country both on and off the field,” Harris said.

“I started this journey with U.S. Soccer at the age of 13 and it has shaped me in every part of my life. I’m proud of the woman I’ve become, and I can only thank the people who have supported me and lifted me throughout it all. Thank you to all my youth national team coaches, full national team coaches, goalkeeper coaches, support staff, and everyone in between.

“To all my teammates, you have been the driving force to my longevity. This journey has always been about the people for me, so thank you for all the incredible memories and life-long friendships. To the fans, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope in some small way I’ve impacted your lives the way you all have impacted mine.”

Harris also gained fame for her tremendous work as unofficial USWNT videographer following the team’s 2019 World Cup win. Her Instagram stories from that evening in Lyon are the stuff of legend. Some (very NSFW) highlights can be found here.

From all of us Ashlyn, thank you for the content.

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Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger have adopted another child

The Gotham FC couple now have a family of four

Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger have added to their family.

Both players announced via Instagram on Tuesday that they had adopted a baby boy named Ocean. That takes their family up to four, as they adopted their daughter Sloane last year.

Harris and Krieger, both normally starters for Gotham FC, had both announced that what they referred to as a “family matter” would keep them out of the team’s August 7 game against the Chicago Red Stars, and the pair were both listed as out with an excused absence for Gotham’s trip to face OL Reign on August 14.

As it turns out, the unexpected absence was for good news, a relative rarity in the NWSL: The couple were simply adding to their family.

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“My wife and I are excited to share that we have adopted a baby boy. Our hearts are full during this time and we are so grateful for the love and support our family, friends and club have shown,” Harris wrote on Instagram. “Sloane has been thriving and wakes up every morning saying ‘Baby, baby.’ We are incredibly thankful and excited for this new chapter as we parent 2 under 2. Let the sleepless nights rage on @alikrieger … I wouldn’t want it any other way. Ocean Maeve Krieger-Harris, welcome to the family baby boy. Your Moms and big sister love you very much.”

“Welcome to the world, Ocean Maeve!” wrote Krieger. “We are so thrilled for our growing family and couldn’t be more excited to have two beautiful babies to share life with! Baby Boy, you are so loved and adored already and I’m so proud to be your Mommy.”

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WATCH: USWNT stars call out male counterparts to get behind push for equal pay

U.S. Women’s National Team stars Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger are calling for their male counterparts to get behind their push for equal pay.

U.S. Women’s National Team stars Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger are calling for their male counterparts to get behind their push for equal pay.

The USWNT received class status on Nov. 8 in its gender discrimination lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation, which opens the door for any athlete who was a part of the women’s team national team camp or a game since Feb. 14, 2014, can now join the class-action suit.

But Harris and Krieger believe that in order for the equal pay fight to succeed, the members of the U.S. Men’s National Team need to be a part of the battle. In March, several of the men’s players spoke with Yahoo! Sports saying they support the women, and the USMNT players association released a statement in July which aimed to dispel a factsheet released by the U.S. Soccer Federation that claimed that the women have actually been paid more than the men.

“I think at the end of the day, we need men to step up, and we need these men to see our value and to see our worth and take a stance and say, ‘You know what? This is not okay. We need to make a change and our children need to make a change.’ And I think that is right now the (…) thing that’s missing,” Harris said, speaking to PowerPlays.news, which is a newsletter about sexism in sports which reporter Lindsay Gibbs launched in late October.

Mediation talks between US Soccer and the women broke down in August and a new trial date is set for May 2020, but Harris insists that she and the cause for equal pay needs, “boys and teenagers and adult men to really value and appreciate these women who are giving so much.”

USWNT stars Ashlyn Harris, Ali Krieger call out male counterparts to get behind push for equal pay

U.S. Women’s National Team stars Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger are calling for their male counterparts to get behind their push for equal pay.

U.S. Women’s National Team stars Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger are calling for their male counterparts to get behind their push for equal pay.