Kelley Maureen O’Hara is an Olympic gold winner and two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion from the United States. She is presently a defender for the Washington Spirit of the NWSL and the United States women’s national soccer team. FC Gold Pride, Boston Breakers, Sky Blue FC, and Utah Royals FC were among her prior professional teams.
While playing for the Stanford Cardinal women’s soccer team in 2009, O’Hara won the Hermann Trophy. She played in the FIFA Women’s World Cups in 2011, 2015, and 2019, and was one of three players for the United States who played every minute in the 2012 Olympics women’s football tournament, in which the team won gold.
She is the host of the podcast Just Women’s Sports.
Achievements:
Club
FC Gold Pride
WPS Championship: 2010
International
FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion: 2015, 2019
FIFA Women’s World Cup Runner-up: 2011
Olympic Gold Medal: 2012
Olympic Bronze Medal: 2020
Algarve Cup: 2011, 2013, 2015
Four Nations Tournament: 2011
CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament: 2012; 2016; 2020
CONCACAF Women’s Championship: 2014, 2018
SheBelieves Cup: 2016; 2018; 2020, 2021; 2022
Individual
Pac-10 Conference First-Team: 2006, 2007, 2009
U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year Finalist: 2007, 2009
Hermann Trophy Winner: 2009
NCAA All-American First-Team: 2009
ESPN Academic All-America First-Team: 2009
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame: Inducted February 22, 2020. O’Hara was the youngest person ever inducted and the first soccer player to be inducted.
IFFHS CONCACAF Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020
FIFPro Women’s World XI: 2019