Thori Bryan

April 17, 1974

Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

North Carolina State University In 1992, her first season with North Carolina State University, she started all 22 games and was named the Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Rookie of the Year in 1992. During her time at North Carolina, she was a three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference (Administrative Committee on Company-ordination) and All-South Region selection. During her senior year, she started all 22 regular season games while the Wolfpack posted an 18–4–0 record and Number. 9 national ranking. Club She was a first round pick and the first American player to be selected in the inaugural draft. In 2008, after a more than four-year hiatus after the folding of the WUSA, she returned to play with the Carolina Railhawks in the West-League. International Bryan made her first appearance for the United States women"s national soccer team on March 11, 1993 in a game against Denmark. She would go on to earn 64 caps with the team from 1993 to 2003. She was an alternate on the 1996 Olympic Team. In 2003, she was named by national team head coach, April Heinrichs, as one of the 20 players that would travel to China for the Four Nations Tournament. Bryan was an assistant coach at Virginia Technology She runs the Thori Bryan Soccer Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

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association football player

Background

Bryan grew up in Joppatowne, Maryland and played soccer for the Columnia Crusaders for five years.

Education

North Carolina State University.

Career

North Carolina State University

In 1992, her first season with North Carolina State University, she started all 22 games and was named the Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Rookie of the Year in 1992. During her time at North Carolina, she was a three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference (Administrative Committee on Company-ordination) and All-South Region selection. During her senior year, she started all 22 regular season games while the Wolfpack posted an 18–4–0 record and Number.

9 national ranking.

Club

She was a first round pick and the first American player to be selected in the inaugural draft. In 2008, after a more than four-year hiatus after the folding of the WUSA, she returned to play with the Carolina Railhawks in the West-League. International

Bryan made her first appearance for the United States women"s national soccer team on March 11, 1993 in a game against Denmark.

She would go on to earn 64 caps with the team from 1993 to 2003.

She was an alternate on the 1996 Olympic Team. In 2003, she was named by national team head coach, April Heinrichs, as one of the 20 players that would travel to China for the Four Nations Tournament.

Bryan was an assistant coach at Virginia Technology She runs the Thori Bryan Soccer Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Achievements

She won state championships in long jump, 400-meter dash and 800-meter run. Bryan was nominated for the Missouri Athletic Club National Player of the Year award in 1994 and 1995. Staples-Bryan played for the San Jose CyberRays in the Women"s United Soccer Association, the first professional soccer league in the United States, from 2001 to 2003 and was a key member of the 2001 Founders Cup Championship team In 1994, she helped the team win the title at the CONCACAF Qualifying Championship in Montreal and qualify for the 1995 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Championship and Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Championship in Sweden.

Membership

Bryan was a member of the 1995 Women"s National Team that placed third at Sweden.

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Founders Cup; Rookie of the Year; Player of the Year