World Cup winning midfielder Julie Ertz has been voted U.S. Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year for 2019.
Ertz, 27, claimed the honor for the second time in her career, earning 42% of the vote to beat out fellow nominees Rose Lavelle, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Alyssa Naeher, and FIFA World Player of the Year Megan Rapinoe.
While Ertz is the 10th player in the award's history to win multiple times, she is the first to do so while also having won the U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year, which she claimed in 2012 after leading the U.