Kelley O'Hara

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Kelley Maureen O'Hara (born August 4, 1988) is a FIFA Women World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist who plays as a winger and midfielder for the women's national football team, and the forward and a right back for the National Soccer League national team Utah Royals FC. As a front player for the Stanford women's soccer team, he is the recipient of the 2009 Hermann Cup. He majored in science, technology, and society with a focus in environmental engineering.

In the history of the United States Under-20 team, he is tied as the third highest scorer of all time and is sixth in the number of matches played. At senior level, she competes in the 2011 Women's World Cup and 2015, and is one of three players for the US who play every minute at the 2012 women's Olympic women's tournament.

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Kelley O'Hara was born in Fayetteville, Georgia to parents, Dan and Karen O'Hara. He has a brother named Jerry and a sister named Erin. O'Hara has an Irish heritage. O'Hara grew up in Peachtree City, Georgia and graduated from Mill Mill's Mill Starr in Fayette County where he played four years on a university football team and captained the team during his junior and senior years. O'Hara helped lead the Panthers to the 5A title in 2006 with 20 goals and 16 assists. The team finished second in the state championship during the second year. O'Hara was named All-American Parade as junior and senior and All-League, All-County and All-State for four years. In 2006, he was named the Constitution Players of the Atlanta Atlanta Constitution (AJC) of the Year and Georgia State Gatorade of the Year. He is also named NSCAA All-American.

O'Hara played for club teams, Peachtree City Lazers and AFC Lightning before playing for US U-16 in 2004 and then joined the national team of young women U-17s in the same year.

Stanford Cardinal (2006-2009)

Twice the All-American Parade came into his first year at Stanford University, O'Hara led Cardinal in scoring in 2006 with nine goals. He repeated that achievement over the past year, helping the Cardinal into the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

During O'Hara's junior year, Stanford advanced to the College Cup for the first time since 1993, beating 2005 national champions Portland, 1-0. The cardinal will fall in the semifinals, 0-1, to Notre Dame.

As a senior, he had one of the best seasons in Division I history, scoring 26 goals with 13 assists. The senior year of O'Hara ended at the 2009 College Cup, where the Cardinal lost to North Carolina. O'Hara received two yellow cards in the second half, kicking him out of the game, forcing Cardinal to complete a woman's game. The game ended with the score 1-0, thus marking the second North Carolina National Championship. He completed his college career at Stanford with 57 goals and 32 assists, both of which were school records at the time.

O'Hara was awarded the 2009 Hermann Trophy as a top college football player. He has been on the MAC list of Hermann Trophy for three consecutive seasons.

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Soccer career

Club

Before graduating from Stanford, O'Hara played for the Pali Blues of the USL W-League (semi-pro) in the summer of 2009, scoring four goals during his tenure with the club.

WPS: FC Gold Pride, Boston Breakers (2010-2011)

O'Hara compiled the third overall by FC Gold Pride at WPS Draft 2010. In addition to the proximity of the Stadium stadium home stadium to O'Hara's alma mater at Stanford University, O'Hara previously worked with FC Gold Pride head coach Albertin Montoya when he served as an assistant coach at Stanford University in 2008.

The team dominated the first finishing season during the regular season after beating Philadelphia Independence 4-1 with goals from O'Hara, Christine Sinclair and Marta. As regular season champions, the team gets a direct route to a championship playoff game where they face Independence Philadelphia. During the final, FC Gold Pride defeated Independence 4-0 to clinch the WPS Championship. Despite their successful season, the club ceased operations on November 16, 2010, as it did not meet the league's financial reserve requirements.

After FC Gold Pride was folded in November 2010, O'Hara was signed by Boston Breakers. He scored 10 goals over two seasons at WPS playing mainly as an outside midfielder. On January 5, 2012, it was announced O'Hara will return to his hometown because he has signed a contract with Atlanta Beat. However, the league is folded just before the 2012 season begins.

NWSL: Sky Blue FC (2013-2017)

On January 11, 2013, O'Hara joined Sky Blue FC in the new National Women's Football League. Since the club's head coach, Jim Gabarra, intends to play O'Hara as a forward, the converted US WNT switches back to a role he has met with success in college (26 goals and 65 points in his senior season at Stanford, earning him MAC Hermann Trophy).

During his career at Sky Blue, O'Hara has played in several roles including forward, winger, right-back, and central midfielder.

On December 29, 2017, O'Hara traded to Utah Royals FC.

International

Youth national team (2005-2010)

O'Hara represented the United States in various young national teams from 2005 to 2010. He scored 24 goals in 35 games under the age of 20, the third most for US players in the U-20 age group. She is a member of the U-20 women's national soccer team who competed in the 2006 Women's U-20 World Championships in Russia. O'Hara scored two goals in the tournament: one against Congo (for a match he named FIFA players match) and one against Germany. He was also the first player in the tournament to be ejected from the game, having picked up two yellow cards in a game against Argentina.

O'Hara rejoined the U-20 national team at the 2007 Pan American Games. He scored four goals in a women's soccer tournament, against Paraguay, Panama and Mexico. The United States, which only sends their U-20 women to the tournament, will fall in the last game, 0-5, to Brazil's powerful full-strength team featuring Brazil's powerhouse Marta.

In February 2008, O'Hara returned to the women's U-20 national team to play in the U-20 State Four Tournament in Chile. His final appearance for the U-20 team took place in July 2008, at the CONCACAF 2008 U-20 Women's Championship in Puebla, Mexico. O'Hara helped the U-20 team qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2008 in Chile. He did not play in the Under-20 World Cup, but stayed with his campus team in the NCAA postseason campaign.

Senior national team (2008-present)

He was summoned to the national senior team training camp in December 2009 and attended the January 2010 training camp ahead of the 2010 Algarve Cup. O'Hara earned his first senior national team cap in March 2010, coming on as a substitute during a friendly against Mexico.

FIFA Women's World Cup 2011

After failing to make a list of 21 World Cup players, O'Hara was called in to replace Lindsay Tarpley who tore his ACL in an off match against Japan on May 14, 2011. O'Hara grabbed just one hat in midfield right at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup at the final group stage match against Sweden. The United States went on to win a silver medal at the tournament.

Olympics 2012

Throughout his national career at U-20, in collaboration, and in the club, O'Hara has become one of the top offensive young players in the United States, but under head coach Pia Sundhage, O'Hara converted to play out back in 2012 after colleagues team-mate Ali Krieger suffered an ACL injury at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Against Guatemala on January 22, 2012, in Olympic Qualifying, he made his first start at the left-back and recorded three assists. O'Hara made his first debut on the back line against Costa Rica in a United States qualifying match for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

He is one of three players in the national team who play every minute for the United States at the Olympics. Incidentally, the other two team members, goalkeeper Hope Solo, and captain Christie Rampone have almost the same stats; playing 570 minutes in all six games and O'Hara and Solo each serving one assist.

FIFA Women's World Cup 2015

In the first four United States games at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, O'Hara did not see any playing time. O'Hara started his first quarter-final tournament against China PR. He was replaced by Christen Press in the 61st minute. O'Hara scored his first goal in an international career in United's 2-0 win over Germany in the semi-finals. In the final against Japan, O'Hara entered the match in the 61st minute to replace Megan Rapinoe. The United States went on to beat Japan 5-2, winning its first World Cup title since 1999 and the third overall World Cup title for the United States since the first Women's World Cup in 1991.

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Awards

Club

FC Gold Pride

WPS Championship: 2010

International

Algarve Cup: 2011, 2013, 2015
Four Nations Tournament: 2011
FIFA Women's World Cup Winner: 2015
Runner-up: 2011
The Olympic Gold Medal: 2012
SheBelieves Cup: 2018

Individual

Hermann Trophy: 2009
NCAA All-American First-Team: 2009
ESPN Academic All-America First-Team: 2009
Pac-10 Conference First-Team: 2006, 2007, 2009
US. Athletes Young Women Football Athletes of the Year: 2007, 2009

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Support

O'Hara has appeared in several ads and ads for Under Armor. By 2015, he appears in television commercials and promotional materials promoting chocolate milk on behalf of the National Dairy Processor Promotion Council.

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In popular culture

Television and movies

In June 2015, O'Hara performed with national teammates Alex Morgan and Sydney Leroux on the Garbage Time episode with Katie Nolan on Fox Sports. In July 2015, O'Hara performed with national team mate Carli Lloyd and Abby Wambach at Good Morning America following the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final against Germany. In October 2014, she appeared in an episode of Sports Illustrated Now.

Magazines

O'Hara has been featured on Howler , Shape and Sports Illustrated .

Video Games

O'Hara appeared together with his national teammates in the FIFA EA Sports video game series starting at FIFA 16 , the first time a female player was included in the game.

Tape Parade and White House Honor

Following the United States win at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, O'Hara and his colleagues became the first women's sports team to have the honor of a Ticker ribbon parade in New York City. Each player receives a key to the city from Mayor Bill de Blasio. In October of the same year, the team was honored by President Barack Obama at the White House.

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References

Game report

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