Shannon Higgins-Cirovski won four NCAA women's soccer titles at North Carolina and the 1989 Hermann Trophy, given to the sport's best player. She assisted the legendary Michelle Akers on both of her goals in the 1991 Women's World Cup final, when the Americans first conquered the globe. She appeared in 51 games for the United States before ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Moments after the U.S. women's national soccer team won the World Cup in France, a familiar chant began to rain down from the crowd at Parc Olympique Lyonnais.

"Equal pay! Equal pay!"

It was an appropriate chant given the disparity in compensation for the U.S. women's team, winner of back-to-back World Cups and four-time World ...Read more

Hours after the U.S. women's national team won their second straight World Cup title, President Donald Trump offered high praise and congratulations to the squad but expressed uncertainty about a White House invite for the players and coaches.

"We haven't really thought about it," Trump told reporters Sunday. "We will look at that, certainly." ...Read more

When the U.S. women's soccer team notched its fourth World Cup win Sunday in Lyon, France, the crowd engaged in an unusual and sustained celebratory chant: "equal pay."

The team's 2-0 victory over the Netherlands garnered strong TV ratings on Fox and tremendous social media buzz, demonstrating a popularity and success that their counterparts on...Read more

Twenty years ago, as interest began to swell for the 1999 Women's World Cup, I suggested to an editor that it would be a good idea to cover the late-round games. His response: Nobody cares about women's soccer.

A few weeks later, when it was announced that the 90,000-seat Rose Bowl was sold out for the final and late-night TV hosts were jumping...Read more

LYON, France – The games are over and the celebration has just begun for the newly crowned Women's World Cup champions. And while the hard work remains of consolidating what the U.S. won on its unbeaten run through the deepest field ever assembled for a women's soccer tournament, the players appear content to let that wait.

For now.

"This is...Read more

LYON, France – The newly minted Women's World Cup champions will begin a multigame victory tour Aug. 3 in Pasadena provided the Rose Bowl board, which will meet Monday, approves a proposal for the game.

"The Rose Bowl is thrilled at the potential of hosting the opening match of the victory tour of the World Cup champions," said Darryl Dunn, ...Read more

LYON, France – They ran roughshod over the best field in history, winning seven times in seven ties. They scored a record 26 goals, gave up just three, and in 630 minutes of soccer, they never trailed.

The Americans made their run to a second straight Women's World Cup title look easy. It was anything but.

So when it ended in a 2-0 victory ...Read more

U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe will be 38 by the time the 2023 Women's World Cup takes place.

But Rapinoe, who turned 34 on Friday, hopes to be part of the U.S. roster for the tournament that will be hosted by one of the nine countries bidding to hold the event.

"I'm not anywhere near to be done or looking to be done," Rapinoe told this news ...Read more

LYON, France – Megan Rapinoe, who wasn't expected to start Sunday's Women's World Cup final because of a hamstring issue, wound up winning it instead, calmly slotting home a penalty kick in the 61st minute to start the U.S. on its way to a 2-0 win over a stubborn team from the Netherlands before a sellout crowd at Stade de Lyon.

With the win ...Read more

LYON, France -- The players on the U.S. national team have talked a lot about the journey that has taken them to Sunday's Women's World Cup final. What they haven't talked much about, though, is how and where that journey began.

For that you have to go back three summers, to the weeks following the team's loss to Sweden in the quarterfinals of ...Read more

LYON, France -- Carli Lloyd has adapted to her role as a reserve forward on the incomparably deep U.S. women's World Cup team, but that doesn't mean she likes it.

A starter for 13 years, the New Jersey native is too much a team player to put her concerns above the success the Americans have enjoyed while blasting through group play and clawing ...Read more

LYON, France -- Alex Morgan stepped out of the U.S. team hotel Wednesday afternoon carrying a cup of coffee which, given the way she celebrated her game-winning goal against England the night before, you would have figured wasn't her cup of tea.

After heading in a perfect feed from Lindsey Horan to give the U.S. a lead it wouldn't relinquish in...Read more

LYON, France -- Despite her splendid play leading into this Women's World Cup, there was more than a little concern over how Alyssa Naeher would react to her first starting assignment in a major tournament.

Those worries have faded, with Naeher becoming the first U.S. goalkeeper to post three shutouts in the group stage, then making game-saving...Read more

LYON, France -- Christen Press has a theory as to why the U.S. women's national team has been so successful.

"The team rises to the occasion," she said Monday. "Throughout the history -- watching the team, being on the team, playing for the team -- we've done a great job at flipping pressure and making it inspiration, making it motivation.

"...Read more

LYON, France -- Alex Morgan stood on the pitch at the Stade de Lyon with her teammates and closed her eyes for a few moments to be alone with her thoughts.

The U.S. women's World Cup team was taking its stadium familiarization session, a chance given to each squad to get a feel for its surroundings before a match -- in this case, the Americans'...Read more