Briana Scurry

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Briana Collette Scurry (born September 7, 1971) is an American former soccer goalkeeper who anchored the United States women's national team from 1994 to 2008. She played 173 full internationals, including four World Cups and two Olympic Games, and was the starting goalkeeper for the teams that won the 1996 and 2004 Olympic gold medals and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Her defining play came in the 1999 World Cup final at the Rose Bowl, where her penalty-shootout save against China set up the United States' victory in the most watched women's sporting event of its era. A founding player of the WUSA, the first U.S. women's league to pay players as professionals, she played three seasons for the Atlanta Beat. In 2017 she was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame — the first Black woman and the first female goalkeeper so honored.

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• Also known as: Briana Collette Scurry

Notes

Sports Encyclopedia roster CTL-SPE-0178. Firsts disposition: ASSERTED — 'first Black woman and first female goalkeeper inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame (2017),' supported by two independent accounts in this record (Andscape and Just Women's Sports), with the Hall's own page confirming the 2017 induction, the 173 internationals, and the 1999 save. FLAG: career appearance totals differ across sources (173 full internationals per the Hall of Fame and the U.S. Soccer election release; 175 in some secondary accounts, including a line in that same release's biography) — the description uses the Hall's 173 and asserts no shutout total. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): Scurry held the hardest job in the 1999 final — one save, in front of 90,000 people, as the only Black starter on the team — and made it. Her Hall of Fame firsts arrived eighteen years later than the save deserved. Photo: CLEARED — Briana Scurry.png, Public domain.

Sources

• National Soccer Hall of Fame. "Briana Scurry — 2017 Inductee." Accessed 2026-11-03. (primary source · build store)
• U.S. Soccer (release via OurSportsCentral). "Briana Scurry and Dr. Joe Machnik Elected to National Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2017." August 3, 2017. Accessed 2026-11-03. (primary source · build store)
• Andscape (ESPN). "Briana Scurry's World Cup-winning save opened a path for Olympian Adrianna Franch." Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)
• Just Women's Sports. "It's Time for Briana Scurry to Receive Her Full Due." Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)

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