Hope Solo » Female Athlete of the Year http://www.hopesolo.org U.S. Women's Soccer Goalkeeper Hope Solo Bio, Videos, Pictures, News Sun, 23 May 2010 14:53:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hope Solo listed U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year (with video) http://www.hopesolo.org/2009/12/23/hope-solo-listed-u-s-soccer-female-athlete-of-the-year-with-video/ http://www.hopesolo.org/2009/12/23/hope-solo-listed-u-s-soccer-female-athlete-of-the-year-with-video/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:26:37 +0000 admin http://www.hopesolo.org/?p=241 The United States Soccer Federation gave out their yearly awards for 2009 on Monday. Among those honored was U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper , who took home the honor of “Female Athlete of the Year.”

‘s 2009 featured her grow to prominence on both the international and league scenes. She won both the MVP award at the Algarve Cup in Portugal as well as WPS Goalkeeper of the Year for her club team, the St. Louis Athletica.

In a placed on USSoccer.com, gave thanks those who voted for her for the honor. said on the website, “It’s a huge honor but also a really nice surprise to be voted the female athlete of the year for U.S. Soccer. I particularly want to thank everyone for voting for a goalie, as well as our netkeeper manager Paul Rogers for helping me reckon about the position in a more sophisticated way, both technically and tactically.”

The other prize winners were Landon Donovan, who was named “Male Athlete of the Year,” plus Tobin Heath and Luis Gil, who were named USSF “Young Athletes of the Year.”

See of having her award and giving thanks her fans below:

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