Lorrie Fair

Lorrie Fair was a soccer midfielder who won a silver medal with the USA team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She was also on the 2004 Olympic team but did not play in a match. The peak of her career came early, when she was the youngest player on the USA team that won the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Fair played in college at the University of North Carolina. Her twin sister, Ronnie Fair, also became a professional soccer player but chose to attend Stanford. Lorrie Fair helped lead UNC to NCAA titles in 1996-97 and 1999, winning the Honda Player of the Year Award for the 1999/2000 season.

Lorrie Fair was on the US National Team from 1996-2005, appearing in 120 matches. As a professional she played for the Philadelphia Charge from 2001-03 and Olympique Lyonnais Féminin in 2005. After a short break, she came back briefly in 2008 to play for Chelsea in the Women’s Premier League.

Fair has worked for several causes, serving as an athlete ambassador for Right to Play and for Show Racism the Red Card. She has worked for the Sport Envoy Program run by the US State Department, and with Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project, and Fair has had her own Kickabout Africa 2010 project, helping African developmental efforts in sports.