Carli Lloyd wanted to leave a legacy. In the end, she wrote a legend.
The United States dominated Japan on Sunday evening in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Vancouver, winning 5-2 to become the first country to lift the trophy three times. Lloyd was the game's undisputed star, scoring a 16-minute hat trick and turning in a performance that will surely go down among the sport's best of all time.
For her heroics, Lloyd earned the Golden Ball as the tournament's top player and also received the Silver Boot as its second-best scorer (she finished with six goals, the same as Golden Boot winner Celia Sasic of Germany, but finished second on a tiebreaker).