Brianna Scurry
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Scurry in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Briana Collette Scurry | ||
| Date of birth | September 7, 1971 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1989–1993 | UMass Minutewomen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2003 | Atlanta Beat | ||
| 2009–2010 | Washington Freedom | ||
| National team | |||
| 1994–2008 | United States | 173 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2018- | Washington Spirit (assistant) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Briana Collette Scurry (born September 7, 1971) is an American retired soccer goalkeeper and current assistant coach of the Washington Spirit. 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 is the first female goalkeeper and first black woman in that Hall of Fame.
Scurry was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to parents, 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 was instrumental in their Minnesota State Championship win in 1989 which ended in a shootout victory. In high school, Scurry ran track and played floor hockey and softball, but basketball was her first and deepest love.
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