Shannon Boxx
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| Shannon Boxx | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Shannon Leigh Boxx | |
| Date of birth | June 27, 1977 | |
| Place of birth | Fontana, California, USA | |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1991-1995 1995-1998 |
South Torrance H.S. Notre Dame |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1999 1999-2000 2001-2002 2003 |
Boston Renegades 1. FC Saarbrücken San Diego Spirit New York Power |
41 (5) 21 (1) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2003- | United States | 77 (17) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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| Olympic medal record | |||
Competitor for  United States |
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| Gold | 2004 Athens | Team Competition | |
Shannon Boxx (born on June 29, 1977 in Fontana, California) is an American soccer player who plays as a defensive midfielder for the United States women's national soccer team. She won the Gold Medal with the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and played for the US at the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was a finalist for the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year award, and won an NCAA Women's Soccer Championship with Notre Dame in 1995.
Boxx is the younger sister of Gillian Boxx, who won the Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympics with the United States softball team.[1]
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[edit] Early career
[edit] High school
From 1991 to 1995, Boxx attended South Torrance High School in Torrance, California, where she was a four-sport athlete, playing soccer, volleyball, softball, and basketball. She was named to the Parade All-America team for girls' soccer in 1995.[2]
[edit] College
Boxx played for the University of Notre Dame from 1995 to 1998. She helped the Fighting Irish win the school's only NCAA Women's Soccer Championship in 1995, beating defending champions North Carolina in the semifinal. Boxx was named to the All-Big East team in 1995, 1996 and 1997, and is tied for the most soccer games played for the Irish at 101 games[2].
[edit] College statistics
| College | GP/GS | Goals | Assists | Total Points | Win-Loss-Tie |
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| Notre Dame 1995 | 25/21 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 21-2-2 |
| Notre Dame 1996 | 26/25 | 12 | 16 | 40 | 24-2-0 |
| Notre Dame 1997 | 25/25 | 13 | 17 | 43 | 23-1-1 |
| Notre Dame 1998 | 25/25 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 21-3-1 |
[edit] Professional career
[edit] 1999-2000
In 1999, Boxx played for the Boston Renegades of the W-League, and then went to Germany to play for 1. FC Saarbrücken in the women's Bundesliga. However, she was unhappy and considered retiring from soccer.[3]
[edit] WUSA
In 2001, Women's United Soccer Association began play, and Boxx was drafted by the San Diego Spirit in the third round of the entry draft, with the 19th pick overall.[2]
In the 2001 season, Boxx started all 21 matches for the Spirit, missing 20 minutes of the entire season, and was named to the All-WUSA team. [3] However, her playing time was reduced the following season, and in September 2002, she was sent to the New York Power, in a six-player trade that included gave San Diego the first overall pick in the 2003 draft, used to select Aly Wagner.[4]
With New York, Boxx returned to form, starting all 21 games, scoring once and assisting a career-high eight times, and was named to the 2003 All-WUSA squad.[5] Former women's national team coach and league commissioner Tony DiCicco called Boxx "the best in our league at (defensive midfield) -- physical, strong, technical".[3]
| WUSA | GP/GS | MIN | Goals | Assists | Total Points | Win-Loss-Tie |
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| San Diego Spirit 2001 | 21/21 | 1870 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 7-7-7 |
| San Diego Spirit 2002 | 20/15 | 1349 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5-11-5 |
| New York Power 2003 | 21/21 | 1868 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7-9-5 |
[edit] International career
Although Boxx was a member of the United States Under-21 national team pool, she did not receive her first senior cap until August 2003, when U.S. national team coach April Heinrichs named her to the team's 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup squad, making her the first uncapped player to be named to a U.S. Women's World Cup squad.[5]. Prior to the call-up, following the suspension of WUSA, Boxx had planned to take a coaching position at Cal State-Dominguez Hills and pursue a graduate degree at Pepperdine University.[5]
Boxx scored a goal in each of the two pre-World Cup friendlies, against Costa Rica and Mexico, and in the opening match of the World Cup against Sweden, Boxx became the first American woman to score three goals in her first three matches with the national team.[3]
Boxx started five matches at the Women's World Cup, scoring again against Canada in the third place match. She was voted the player of the match against Canada by the FIFA Technical Study Group, who said Boxx "seized control of the game, spurred on her team-mates and finally scored the decisive goal in USA's victory".[1]
Boxx started 31 of 32 national team matches she played in 2004, including all six matches at the 2004 Olympics, where she scored a goal, assisted on another and helped the team win a Gold Medal.[2] She scored eight goals over the course of the year, including a hat trick against Trinidad and Tobago in an Olympic qualifying match. Boxx came in seventh in the voting for the 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year award.
In 2005, Boxx started all nine matches US national team matches, playing all but 23 minutes of all matches played. She was a finalist for the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year, coming in third behind Birgit Prinz and Marta.[6]
Boxx missed most of 2006, first for surgery to repair torn cartilage in her right hip, and then for torn medial collateral ligaments she suffered on her first day back in training with the national team.[7] She returned in 2007 after an eight-month layoff, and was named to the United States' squad for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Boxx helped the team reach the semifinal match against Brazil, but she was sent off after receiving two yellow cards, and the United States went on to lose 4-0.[8]
| National Team | GP/GS | MIN | Goals | Assists | Total Points | Win-Loss-Tie |
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| 2003 | 9/9 | 762 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7-1-1 |
| 2004 | 32/31 | 2714 | 8 | 5 | 21 | 26-2-4 |
| 2005 | 9/9 | 733 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8-0-1 |
| 2006 | 9/9 | 793 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6-0-3 |
| 2007 | 10/8 | 623 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10-0-0 |
(*Correct as of 8/26/2007)
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Shannon Boxx: USA's cool-headed heroine", FIFA.com, 30 November 2005. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
- ^ a b c d Shannon Boxx Biography. USsoccer.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-25.
- ^ a b c d Longman, Jere. "SOCCER; Boxx Goes From Spectator to Steadfast Midfielder", New York Times, September 25, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
- ^ "San Diego selects Wagner first in WUSA draft", CNNSI.com, February 2, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
- ^ a b c Wyllie, John Philip. "Outside the box: how U.S. midfielder Shannon Boxx, the oldest debutante in national team history, secured her post-WUSA career - Women's United Soccer Association - Interview", Soccer Digest, December 2003. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
- ^ "Marta and Boxx toast a fantastic year", FIFA.com, 20 December 2005. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
- ^ Ruibal, Sal. "USA's Boxx looking like the player of old", USA Today, 2007-08-24. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
- ^ Ruibal, Sal. "Goalie switch fails to work as USA falls to Brazil", USA Today, 2007-09-27. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
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