Shannon MacMillan

Shannon MacMillan

Personal information
Full name	Shannon Ann MacMillan
Date of birth	October 7, 1974 (1974-10-07)
Place of birth	Syosset, New York, United States
Height	5'5
Playing position	midfielder/forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
	San Diego Spirit
National team
1994-2006	United States	176	(60)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Olympic medal record
Competitor for United States
Women's Football (soccer)
Gold	Atlanta 1996	Team Competition
Silver	Sydney 2000	Team Competition

Shannon MacMillan (born October 7, 1974 in Syosset, New York) is a former American professional soccer player. She was a member of the U.S. Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and at the 1999 Women's World Cup. She was US Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year for 2002. In 2007, MacMillan became an assistant coach for the UCLA women's soccer team.

MacMillan attended San Pasqual High School in Escondido, California, and then played for the University of Portland, where she won the Hermann Trophy for the best female collegiate soccer player of the 1995 season. While still in college, she joined the US National Team in 1994 as a midfielder. By 2000, she moved to forward.

In the Olympic semifinal against Norway in 1996, she scored the game-winning goal in overtime. In the Olympic final against China, she collected a Mia Hamm shot that rebounded off the post and put it in for the first goal of the match.

She was a "super-sub" on the US WNT's 1999 Women's World Cup team and the 2000 Olympic team. She earned a spot on the roster for the 2003 Women's World Cup team after making a miraculously quick recovery from an ACL tear suffered just four months before the tournament began.

MacMillan was one of the founding players of the Women's United Soccer Association, playing three seasons for the San Diego Spirit.

She retired from international play in 2006 at the age of 31. She finished her international career with 60 goals and with 175 caps, the tenth most of any woman in history up to that time.

She was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame on September 25, 2007.

On January 7, 2010, she was named Director of the Competitive Program at the Del Mar Carmel Valley Sharks Soccer Club.

Shannon during a halftime workout.

External links

• Official WNT Current Player Pool
• Official Player Profile
• Shannon MacMillan's U.S. Olympic Team bio