World Cup winners Michelle Akers and Hope Solo were among the 18 players honored by Washington Youth Soccer on Wednesday in a release of the top female soccer players of the organization’s 50th-year existence.
Akers and Solo — the former one of the most decorated U.S. women’s national team forwards, the latter its most successful goalkeeper — have combined for 350 USWNT appearances, 105 goals and 100 shutouts. But they’re far from the only familiar names on a list that ranges from players born in the early 1960s through the late ’80s.
Sharon McMurtry, the oldest player selected, was considered one of the top American players of her generation — and such an early pioneer that Inglemoor High didn’t even have a girls’ soccer team until her season year.