 | Julie Foudy |
Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Julie Foudy, who has been hailed as one of the world's best female soccer players, will speak on campus on Thursday, April 7, as a guest of the Kiphuth Fellowship.
Her talk, "Going for Gold," will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 114, Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. It is free and open to the public.
Best known as the recently retired captain and 17-year veteran of the U.S. Women's National Team, Foudy won Gold Medals in the 1996 and 2004 Olympics, and a Silver Medal in 2000. She was one of the founding players of the first-ever Women's Professional Soccer League, the WUSA. Within the league, she played midfield for the San Diego Spirit, where she reigned as captain. She is also a voting player representative on the WUSA board of governors.
Foudy began garnering accolades at Mission Viejo High School in California, where she was a two-time first-team All-American and honored as Player of the Year for Southern California three straight years. She debuted with the National Team in 1987 at age 16. She was with the U.S. team when they captured the 1991 inaugural FIFA Women's World Championship in China, playing every minute of the game.
At Stanford University, where she earned a degree in biology, she was a four-year varsity soccer star and four-time National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-American. She also earned the title of Los Angeles Times Soccer Player of the Decade.
In 1994, Foudy played in Sweden for Tyreso Football Club along with U.S. National Team teammates Michelle Akers, Mary Harvey and Kristine Lilly. She was a member of the Sacramento Storm, which won the 1993 and 1995 California State Amateur Championship, and also played for the 1999 team that captured the FIFA World Championship in the U.S. Foudy then went on to co-captain the team that won the 2000 Algarve Cup.
Foudy has been an advocate for building gender equality in sports, as well as for combating teen smoking abuse. She is the past president of the Women's Sports Foundation and was most recently named one of the "Most Powerful People" in sports from The Sporting News. She has also worked as a color commentator for ESPN's coverage of the 1998 Men's World Cup.
The Kiphuth Fellowship Fund was established in 1970 in memory of the late Yale swimming coach and athletic director Robert J.H. Kiphuth. The Fund provides the opportunity for men and women distinguished in the fields of physical training, sport, sports writing, physiology, literature and the arts to visit the Yale campus.
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