BOULDER — Hope Solo, considered to be among the best women's soccer players of all time, told a University of Colorado class Tuesday, "Your message is heard all over the world. That's cool to see. Yours is a generation I am inspired by."
Solo, the starting goalkeeper for two U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning teams and a World Cup championship team, spoke to Prof. Roger Pielke's Intro to Sports Governance class. Approximately 200 CU students and staff heard Solo's presentation, then engaged in a question-and-answer session
Pielke's class studies and discusses a wide variety of issues regarding sports, ranging from performance-enhancing drugs to NCAA issues to gender controversies.