Heather OReilly

A forward and winger who starred in the U.S. Women’s National Team for more than a decade, Heather O’Reilly won three Olympic gold medals and a World Cup title while playing in 231 full internationals for the United States between 2002 and 2016.

Those games included 12 World Cup games in 2007, 2011 and 2015, 13 World Cup qualifiers in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014, and 14 Olympic games in 2004, 2008 and 2012. She is one of four players to earn three Olympic gold medals, winning in 2004, 2008 and 2012, and she also played on the team that won the Women’s World Cup in 2015. In all, she scored 47 goals for her country.

O’Reilly played a total of nine seasons in first-division American women’s soccer, three in Women’s Professional Soccer between 2009 and 2011, all with Sky Blue, and six in the National Women’s Soccer League between 2013 and 2019, with Boston, Kansas City and North Carolina. She won first-division titles with three different teams: She won a WPS title in 2009 with Sky Blue and NWSL titles in 2015 with Kansas City and 2019 with North Carolina. Over the course of those WPS and NWSL seasons, she played 138 regular-season games and nine playoff games, scoring 23 goals.

In 2009, she scored the only goal of Sky Blue’s victory over Los Angeles in the WPS final. O’Reilly, who had earlier played two seasons in the W-League and one in the WPSL, also played two first-division seasons in England with Arsenal, winning an English League Cup title in 2018, and one first-division season in Ireland.

She was elected to the Hall of Fame in her first year of eligibility.