NAEHER Alyssa

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Senior	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

FIFA Women's World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2019	France
1	Senior	2015	Canada

CONCACAF Women's Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2018	United States of America

Lys (Instagram profile, 01 Jan 2020)

Athlete

Human Movement Studies - Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

English

Chicago Red Stars [United States of America] since 2016

Rory Dames [club], USA; Vlatko Andonovski [national], MKD

Goalkeeper (ussoccer.com, 01 Jan 2019)

Her father played basketball and competed in track athletics at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States of America. Her twin sister Amanda played football at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, PA, United States of America. (gopsusports.com, 14 Sep 2009)

2014 for United States of America Against Argentina, in Brasilia, Brazil (skybluefc.com, 18 Dec 2014)

She suffered a shoulder injury in the Big Ten Tournament in 2007. (Penn State Athletics, 12 Jun 2007)

National Women's Soccer League [USA] (nwslsoccer.com, 15 Jan 2020)

She began playing football at age four. (ussoccer.com, 01 Jan 2019)

She took up the sport alongside her twin sister Amanda. They both practised together in their garden, and played on the same team as children. (ussoccer.com, 01 Jan 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (wnpr.org, 30 Mar 2020)

US television broadcaster Robin Roberts. (ussoccer.com, 02 Mar 2019)

"You can train as much as you want as a keeper, but to get better at it, you have to play in games." (ussoccer.com, 01 Jan 2019)

In 2014 she was named National Women's Soccer League [NWSL] Goalkeeper of the Year and was included in the NWSL Best XI. (ussoccer.com, 01 Jan 2019)

She received the Golden Glove award at the 2008 U20 World Cup in Chile as the tournament's best goalkeeper. (teamusa.org, 21 Aug 2016)

During her time at the Pennsylvania State University, she was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America [NSCAA] All-American First Team in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2006 she was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team, the All-Big Ten Second Team and the Soccer Buzz Mid-Atlantic All-Freshman and Freshman All-American teams. In 2007 she was named to the Soccer Buzz All-American First Team, Soccer America MVP Second Team, All-Big Ten First Team and College Sports Information Directors of America [CoSIDA]/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Second Team. In 2008 she was named to the Soccer Buzz All-American and All-Great Lakes Region First Teams, NSCAA All-Great Lakes First Team and All-Big Ten First Team, before being named to the Soccer America All-American First Team in her senior year. She was also named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 and Big Ten Tournament Defensive MVP in 2008. (gopsusports.com, 14 Sep 2009; chicagoredstars.com, 22 Nov 2015)