Rachel Buehler
Rachel with the Gold Pride in September 2010
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| Full name | Rachel Marie Buehler Van Hollebeke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | August 26, 1985 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Del Mar, California, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2003–2007 | Stanford Cardinal | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | San Diego WFC SeaLions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | FC Gold Pride | 39 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Boston Breakers | 10 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Atlanta Beat | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Portland Thorns FC | 32 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| United States U-19 | 30 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States U-21 | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States U-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2015 | United States | 113 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 23, 2014. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of March 10, 2015 |
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Rachel Buehler Van Hollebeke (born August 26, 1985), née Rachel Marie Buehler, is a former American soccer defender who last played for the Portland Thorns FC and the United States women's national soccer team. In 2015, Van Hollebeke revealed she was retiring from professional soccer in order to train as a doctor.
Van Hollebeke attended Stanford University, where she was named by the NCAA Honors Committee as a recipient of the NCAA Top VIII Award, and completed her senior year in 2007, majoring in human biology/pre-medicine. A three-year captain for the Cardinal, Van Hollebeke was an All-Pac-10 Conference First-Team selection, an NSCAA First-Team All-American Scholar Athlete, and was chosen as the ESPN Academic All-American of the Year. As a redshirt junior in 2006, she was one of two players in the conference to be selected in the All-Pac-10 First Team and the Pac-10 All-Academic First Team.
On September 16, 2008, Van Hollebeke was one of three members of the 2008 Beijing gold medal team allocated to the brand new Santa Clara, California, club FC Gold Pride, along with Nicole Barnhart and Leslie Osborne. FC Gold Pride, coached by former San Jose Clash midfielder Albertin Montoya, was the seventh and final club named in 2008 to compete in the inaugural season of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) the following year.
On January 11, 2013 Van Hollebeke was one of three members from the United States women's national team that was allocated to the new NWSL club Portland Thorns FC, along with Alex Morgan and Tobin Heath.
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