KRISTINE LILLY AT FSA! December 9, 2006 "I had a great time as one of the FSASoccerPlus coaches. You have a great facility…the best I’ve seen and your coaches and staff were awesome. In fact, everyone…your staff and parents were so great and nice to me. I hope all the players had a good time and benefited from the day, I know I did.  As usual, everything you do is special. Happy holidays to everyone, especially the players at FSA." `lil PRESENTED BY SOCCERPLUS EDUCATION CENTER Sponsored by FSASoccerPlus; SoccerPlus Camps, FSA and TeamSports /// Kristine Clinic on Channel 3 - mp4 video /// Click Here to read the article from The Herald.

Kristine talks to one of the groups of players after the clinic Kristine helping a young FSASoccerPlus player with the proper Heading technique.   THANK YOU TO THE 450 YOUNG SOCCER PLAYERS WHO ATTENDED FROM ALL OVER CT. GROUP PHOTOS: /// 9am Clinic Photo /// 9am FSASoccerPlus Photo /// 10:30am Clinic Photo /// 10:30am FSASoccerPlus Photo View all Clinic Photos - Click Here

KRISTINE LILLY
Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Wilton, Ct
College: UNC, Chapel Hill
Website: kristinelilly13.com

Kristine Lilly has been a mainstay of U.S. women's soccer since 1987, when she started her first seven games for the Women's National Team. Before she was a mainstay for the National Team, Lilly was making her presence known in the Connecticut Youth Soccer Association and US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (US Youth Soccer ODP).

In 2001, she became the first soccer player -- male or female -- to rack up more than 200 international appearances, with 218 starts in 228 total games.

In between, the Wilton, CT-raised midfielder collected two Women's World Cup titles, two Olympic Gold and one Silver medal, a Hermann Trophy, a Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year Award, and four NCAA women's soccer titles with the University of North Carolina, including two tournament MVP nods. She was a four-time All-American and All-South Selection at UNC, a two-time All-ACC selection and member of Soccer America's College Team of the Decade for the 1990s after collecting 78 goals and 41 assists in four seasons.

She is the third all-time leading scorer in U.S. Soccer history with 87 goals, and her 65 assists are second only to Mia Hamm. Kristine played a major role in helping the U.S. win the 1999 Women's World Cup, not only by scoring 20 goals during that year, but also by clearing a shot off the goal line during sudden-death overtime in the final match against China and then burying the go-ahead penalty kick in the tiebreaker.

Kristine made her national team debut Aug. 3, 1987, and scored her first international goal a week later against China.

Kristine also is one of 20 Women's United Soccer Association Founding Players, and was the Boston Breakers' inaugural season captain and Most Valuable Player, as well as a first-team All-WUSA selection in 2001. She played every minute of every game for the Breakers, and finished the season tied with Brazilian star Sissi for the WUSA assists title with ten. Three of those assists were game-winners.
Kristine placed 31 of her 76 shots on goal, and scored Boston's only penalty kick goal of the year. Lilly has also been honored with the naming of the US Youth Soccer Under-15 Girls National Championship Trophy – The Kristine Lilly Cup, for her accomplishments and influence on youth players across the nation.

Kristine played her first professional soccer in 1994, with Swedish team Tyreso, and spent the 1995 season as the only female player in the Continental Indoor Soccer League, with the Washington Warthogs.

In 1998, the same year she became the most-capped player in soccer history with her 152nd appearance and set a new U.S. Soccer record for consecutive starts (62), Kristine spent part of a season with the W-League's Delaware Genies, racking up five goals in four games.

Kristine was born July 22, 1971 in New York City, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree in communications. She runs the Kristine Lilly Soccer Academy every summer in Wilton, where the local high school soccer team plays on Kristine Lilly Field.