Shannon Boxx
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| Full name | Shannon Leigh Boxx | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | June 29, 1977 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fontana, California, United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | magicJack | |||||||||||||||||
| Number | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1998 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Ajax of Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Boston Renegades | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Ajax of Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | San Diego Spirit | 41 | (5) | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | New York Power | 21 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Ajax of Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Los Angeles Sol | 19 | (3) | |||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Saint Louis Athletica | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2010 | FC Gold Pride | 14 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2011– | magicJack | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2003– |  United States |
157 | (22) | |||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 05:38, 24 September 2009 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Shannon Boxx (born June 29, 1977, in Fontana, California)[1] is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for magicJack of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team. She won the Gold Medal with the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and played for the US at the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was a finalist for the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year award, and won an NCAA Women's Soccer Championship with Notre Dame in 1995.
Boxx is the younger sister of Gillian Boxx, who won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics with the United States softball team.[2]
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[edit] Early life
The multiracial Boxx, whose biological father was black, was raised by her white single mother in Southern California. In a 2008 interview, she remembered that she had little contact with her African American heritage until she went to Notre Dame:[3]
| “ | For me, I really learned about my other half. I took African American studies. I majored in it. I think that was one of the best things I could have ever done. My mom couldn’t teach me those things. So I went and taught myself and learned those things when I was at Notre Dame. | ” |
[edit] Youth Club
From U/12-U/18 [4] played for the Torrance United Waves Soccer Club, Torrance, California and helped to lead them to 4 State Cup Championships and two trips to the USYSA National Championship Final Four in 1993 & 1994 [5][6] at U/17 and U/19.
[edit] High school
From 1991 to 1995, Boxx attended South Torrance High School in Torrance, California, where she was a four-sport athlete, playing soccer, volleyball, softball, and basketball. She was named to the Parade All-America team for girls' soccer in 1995.[7]
[edit] College
Boxx played for the University of Notre Dame from 1995 to 1998. She helped the Fighting Irish win the school's first NCAA Women's Soccer Championship in 1995, beating defending champions North Carolina in the semifinal. Boxx was named to the All-Big East team in 1995, 1996 and 1997, and is tied for the most soccer games played for the Irish at 101 games.[7]
[edit] College statistics
| College | GP/GS | Goals | Assists | Total Points | Win-Loss-Tie |
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| Notre Dame 1995 | 25/21 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 21-2-2 |
| Notre Dame 1996 | 26/25 | 12 | 16 | 40 | 24-2-0 |
| Notre Dame 1997 | 25/25 | 13 | 17 | 43 | 23-1-1 |
| Notre Dame 1998 | 25/25 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 21-3-1 |
[edit] Professional career
[edit] 1999-2000
In 1999, Boxx played for the Boston Renegades of the W-League, and then went to Germany to play for 1. FC Saarbrücken in the women's Bundesliga. However, she was unhappy and considered retiring from soccer.[8]
[edit] WUSA
In 2001, Women's United Soccer Association began play, and Boxx was drafted by the San Diego Spirit in the third round of the entry draft, with the 19th pick overall.[7]
In the 2001 season, Boxx started all 21 matches for the Spirit, missing 20 minutes of the entire season, and was named to the All-WUSA team.[8] However, her playing time was reduced the following season, and in September 2002, she was sent to the New York Power, in a six-player trade that gave San Diego the first overall pick in the 2003 draft, used to select Aly Wagner.[9]
With New York, Boxx returned to form, starting all 21 games, scoring once and assisting a career-high eight times, and was named to the 2003 All-WUSA squad.[10] Former women's national team coach and league commissioner Tony DiCicco called Boxx "the best in our league at (defensive midfield) -- physical, strong, technical".[8]
| WUSA | GP/GS | MIN | Goals | Assists | Total Points | Win-Loss-Tie |
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| San Diego Spirit 2001 | 21/21 | 1870 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 7-7-7 |
| San Diego Spirit 2002 | 20/15 | 1349 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5-11-5 |
| New York Power 2003 | 21/21 | 1868 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7-9-5 |
[edit] International career
Although Boxx was a member of the United States Under-21 national team pool, she did not receive her first senior cap until August 2003, when U.S. national team coach April Heinrichs named her to the team's 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup squad, making her the first uncapped player to be named to a U.S. Women's World Cup squad.[10] Prior to the call-up, following the suspension of WUSA, Boxx had planned to take a coaching position at Cal State-Dominguez Hills and pursue a graduate degree at Pepperdine University.[10]
Boxx scored a goal in each of the two pre-World Cup friendlies, against Costa Rica and Mexico, and in the opening match of the World Cup against Sweden, Boxx became the first American woman to score three goals in her first three matches with the national team.[8]
Boxx started five matches at the Women's World Cup, scoring again against Canada in the third place match. She was voted the player of the match against Canada by the FIFA Technical Study Group, who said Boxx "seized control of the game, spurred on her team-mates and finally scored the decisive goal in USA's victory".[2]
Boxx started 31 of 32 national team matches she played in 2004, including all six matches at the 2004 Olympics, where she scored a goal, assisted on another and helped the team win a Gold Medal.[7] She scored eight goals over the course of the year, including a hat trick against Trinidad and Tobago in an Olympic qualifying match. Boxx came in seventh in the voting for the 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year award.
In 2005, Boxx started all nine matches US national team matches, playing all but 23 minutes of all matches played. She was a finalist for the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year, coming in third behind Birgit Prinz and Marta.[11]
Boxx missed most of 2006, first for surgery to repair torn cartilage in her right hip, and then for torn medial collateral ligaments she suffered on her first day back in training with the national team.[12] She returned in 2007 after an eight-month layoff, and was named to the United States' squad for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Boxx helped the team reach the semifinal match against Brazil, but she was sent off after receiving two yellow cards, and the United States went on to lose 4-0.[13] Boxx played every minute of all five U.S. games in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
| National Team | GP/GS | MIN | Goals | Assists | Total Points | Win-Loss-Tie |
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| 2003 | 9/9 | 762 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7-1-1 |
| 2004 | 32/31 | 2714 | 8 | 5 | 21 | 26-2-4 |
| 2005 | 9/9 | 733 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8-0-1 |
| 2006 | 9/9 | 793 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6-0-3 |
| 2007 | 10/8 | 623 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10-0-0 |
(*Correct as of 8 August 2007[update])
[edit] References
- ^ California Births, 1905 - 1995, Shannon L. Boxx
- ^ a b "Shannon Boxx: USA's cool-headed heroine". FIFA.com. 30 November 2005. http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/awards/gala/news/newsid=101610.html. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ "The Starting 11: Shannon Boxx". Women's Professional Soccer. January 30, 2008. http://www.womensprosoccer.com/news/spotlight/080130-the-starting-eleven-shannon-boxx. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
- ^ http://soccer.teamusa.org/athlete/athlete/781
- ^ http://www.region1.com/NatlChamp/archives/Nationals/1994.pdf
- ^ http://www.region1.com/NatlChamp/archives/Nationals/1993.pdf
- ^ a b c d "Shannon Boxx Biography". USsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20071015151944/http://ussoccer.com/bio/index.jsp_9852.html. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
- ^ a b c d Longman, Jere (September 25, 2003). "SOCCER; Boxx Goes From Spectator to Steadfast Midfielder". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E7D6143DF936A1575AC0A9659C8B63. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ "San Diego selects Wagner first in WUSA draft". CNNSI.com. February 2, 2003. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/us/news/2003/02/02/wusadraft_story/. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ a b c Wyllie, John Philip (December 2003). "Outside the box: how U.S. midfielder Shannon Boxx, the oldest debutante in national team history, secured her post-WUSA career - Women's United Soccer Association - Interview". Soccer Digest. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCN/is_5_26/ai_111201160. Retrieved 2008-01-26.[dead link]
- ^ "Marta and Boxx toast a fantastic year". FIFA.com. 20 December 2005. http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/awards/gala/news/newsid=102258.html. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ Ruibal, Sal (2007-08-24). "USA's Boxx looking like the player of old". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/worldcup/2007-08-24-boxx-world-cup_N.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ Ruibal, Sal (2007-09-27). "Goalie switch fails to work as USA falls to Brazil". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/worldcup/2007-09-27-usa-brazil-semi_N.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
[edit] External links
- Shannon Boxx – FIFA competition record
- Personal Website
- US Soccer player profile
- Los Angeles Sol player profile
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- United States women's international soccer players
- People from the Inland Empire (California)
- Olympic soccer players of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Parade High School All-Americans (girls' soccer)
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's soccer players
- San Diego Spirit players
- Los Angeles Sol players
- Saint Louis Athletica players
- FC Gold Pride players
- MagicJack (WPS) players
- African American soccer players
- American women's soccer players
- FIFA Century Club
- 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Olympic medalists in football
- African American women in sports
