Foudy!!!
Producer bio: Julie Foudy
Foudy, a reporter and analyst for ABC, ESPN and espnW, is best known for her long and successful career as a midfielder on the U.S. women's national soccer team. She is a two-time World Cup champion and three-time Olympic medalist. Throughout her 17 years on the team, she spent 13 serving as a captain, scored 45 goals and earned 59 assists. She was a four-time All-American at Stanford University and named High School Player of the Decade (1980s) by the Los Angeles Times. In 2007, she was inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame, alongside longtime teammate and friend Mia Hamm.
Foudy has served as president and sat on the board of directors for the Women's Sports Foundation, focusing on Title IX, childhood obesity and athletes' rights issues. In 1997, she received the FIFA Fair Play Award for her work against child labor in the stitching of soccer balls.
Foudy is active in many charitable organizations, including Athletes for Hope and Global Girl Media, a nonprofit using journalism to empower young women. In 2006, with her husband, Ian Sawyers, she founded the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy, a unique residential camp experience that uses sports as the vehicle to teach leadership skills for life. Foudy is the proud mother of two children, Isabel and Declan.