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Briana Scurry

Scurry in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Briana Collette Scurry
Date of birth	(1971-09-07) September 7, 1971 (age 52)
Place of birth	Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1986–1989	Anoka High School
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2001–2003	Atlanta Beat
2009–2010	Washington Freedom
National team
1994–2008	United States	175	(0)
Teams managed
2018	Washington Spirit (assistant)
Honours Women's football (soccer) Representing the  United States Olympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta Team competition Gold 2004 Athens Team competition Silver 2000 Sydney Team competition FIFA Women's World Cup Gold 1999 USA Team competition Bronze 1995 Sweden Team competition Bronze 2003 USA Team competition Bronze 2007 China Team competition
Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (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]. 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.

Early life and education

Scurry was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Ernest and Robbie Scurry. She is the youngest of nine children, with three brothers and five sisters.

She played goalie for the Anoka High School Tornadoes for four years and helped them win Minnesota State Championship in 1989. In high school, Scurry ran track and played floor hockey and softball, but basketball was her first and deepest love.

Briana was named Anoka High School's Athena Award winner as the school's top female athlete. She was also named High School All American and Minnesota's top female athlete.

University of Massachusetts

Scurry attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She completed her four-year collegiate career with 37 shutouts in 65 starts and with a career record of 48–13–4 and a 0.56 goals-against-average.

Scurry played three games in 1992 as a forward. In 1993, she helped lead the UMass Minutewomen to a 17–3–3 record, to the semifinals of the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship and the titles of the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season and tournament. In her senior season, she started all 23 games and recorded 15 shutouts and a 0.48 goals-against average, the third best in the nation.

Scurry was named the National Goalkeeper of the Year in 1993 by the Missouri Athletic Club Sports Foundation and was a 1993 second-team All-American, All-Northeast Region and All-New England first-team selection.

Playing career

Club

Scurry was a founding player for the Atlanta Beat in the Women's United Soccer Association (USA), the world's first women's league where the players were paid as professionals. She was the starting goalkeeper for the three seasons (2001–2003) of the league. She helped the Beat to two WUSA Championship Games and was named the league's Goalkeeper of the Year in 2003.

On March 13, 2009, Scurry was named to the preseason roster of the Washington Freedom, in the inaugural season of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). She suffered a season-ending concussion early in the 2010 season, and announced her retirement later that year on September 8.

International

Scurry in 2011

Scurry was a goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team for most of the years between 1994 and 2008, earning a record 173 caps for the United States. She started 159 of those games and finished her international career with a record of 133–12–14. She also earned 71 shutouts.

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).

Sports administration

Scurry was appointed general manager of the WPS franchise magicJack beginning with the 2011 season.

Broadcasting

Scurry was part of the rotation of studio commentators for ESPN's telecasts of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Since 2021, Scurry has served as a broadcast analyst for CBS soccer coverage. In 2022, she served as the lead desk analyst for the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship.

Coaching

On December 6, 2017, Scurry was announced as the First Assistant Coach of the Washington Spirit and would serve as Technical Advisor for the Spirit Academy programs in Maryland and Virginia.

Personal life

Scurry is openly gay, and on June 1, 2018, she married Chryssa Zizos, CEO of Live Wire Strategic Communications, LLC.

Interesting facts about Briana Scurry

• In 2010, she was inducted into the Minnesota State High School Hall of Fame.
• In September 2011, Scurry was named to the inaugural class of the Anoka High School Hall of Fame.
• 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.
• In 2022, Scurry released her best-selling memoir, My Greatest Save.
• Scurry appeared as a fictionalized version of herself in the 2000 film Air Bud: World Pup.
• Scurry was also the subject of The Only, a CBS feature-length documentary chronicling her life that was released in 2022.

Briana Scurry quote

• "A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past."

Honors and awards

See also

In Spanish: Briana Scurry para niños