Back بريانا سكورى ARZ بریانا اسکری AZB Briana Scurry Catalan Briana Scurry German Briana Scurry Spanish بریانا اسکری Persian Briana Scurry Finnish Briana Scurry French בריאנה סקארי HE Բրայանա Սքարի Armenian
_(cropped).jpg) Scurry in 2014 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Briana Collette Scurry[1] | ||
| Date of birth | September 7, 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1989 | Anoka High School | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1993 | UMass Minutewomen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2003 | Atlanta Beat | ||
| 2009–2010 | Washington Freedom | ||
| International career | |||
| 1994–2008 | United States | 175 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2018 | Washington Spirit (assistant) | ||
Medal record | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Briana Collette Scurry (born September 7, 1971) is an American retired soccer goalkeeper, and assistant coach of the Washington Spirit as of 2018[update]. Scurry was the starting goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team at the 1995 World Cup (3rd place), 1996 Summer Olympics (gold medal), 1999 World Cup (champions), 2003 World Cup (3rd place), and the 2004 Summer Olympic Games (gold medal). She played in the semi-final and playoff for third place in the 2007 Women's World Cup (3rd place). She was a founding member of the WUSA, playing three seasons as starting goalkeeper for the Atlanta Beat (2001–2003).
Her career total of 173 international appearances is the second most among female soccer goalkeepers. It is also the fifteenth most of any American female player, and the thirty-second most among all women.
Scurry was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on August 3, 2017. She was the first woman goalkeeper and first black woman to be awarded the honor.[2][3][4] She is openly gay, and on June 1, 2018, she married Chryssa Zizos, CEO of Live Wire Strategic Communications, LLC.
In 2022, Scurry released her best-selling memoir, My Greatest Save.[5] Scurry was also the subject of The Only, a CBS feature-length documentary chronicling her life that was released in 2022.
- ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007 – List of Players: USA" (PDF). FIFA. September 15, 2007. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
- ^ Goff, Steven. "For U.S. women's soccer, a 3–0 victory and a Hall of Fame honor". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
- ^ "Briana Scurry, Dr. Joe Machnik Elected to National Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2017". U.S. Soccer. August 3, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
- ^ By STAR TRIBUNE SPORTS August 4, 2017 — 1:23am (August 4, 2017). "Anoka's Scurry keeps trailblazing, named to soccer Hall of Fame". StarTribune.com. Archived from the original on September 26, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Soccer Champion Briana Scurry". NPR. July 27, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2023.