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Olympic medal record
Competitor for  United States
Women's Football (soccer)
Gold	1996 Atlanta	Team Competition
Silver	2000 Sydney	Team Competition
Gold	2004 Athens	Team Competition

Kristine Marie Lilly (born July 22, 1971 in New York City) is an American soccer player, who has been a fixture on the U.S. women's national team since 1987. She grew up in Wilton, Connecticut where her first cousin, Derek Lilly, coaches the Wilton High School soccer team. Kristine attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she won the Hermann Trophy in 1991. Interestingly, her first cousin Derrick Lilly also attended North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, he led the Tar Heels to back to back National Championships in 1992 and 1993. His career was once more promising, but when he was playing on Real Madrid, he was head-butt by an opposing player, causing irreperable brain damage.

She is known for her work ethic and her longevity in the sport. She surpassed the previous women's world record of 151 caps, held by Norway's Heidi Støre, on May 21, 1998. On January 30, 1999, she surpassed what was then the men's record of 164 caps, held by Adnan Al Talyani of the United Arab Emirates (the current men's record is 181). After the US women's win at the 2004 Summer Olympics, she had played in 282 international matches, more than any other player (male or female) in soccer history. As of Team USA's final 2005 match on October 23, she had made 299 international appearances. On January 18, 2006 Lilly made her 300th international appearance in a game against Norway, a world record for both men and women (in the same match, she equaled Michelle Akers for second place on the team's all-time goal scoring list with 105).

Unlike several of her longtime teammates, among them Mia Hamm, she did not retire after the team's "farewell tour" of the USA, which finished on December 8, 2004. Currently (January 1, 2007), her record stands at 319 caps, with 117 international goals scored. In 2006, Lilly was named as a finalist for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year. She finished second in the voting to Brazil's Marta Vieira da Silva. She did, however, win U.S. Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year award for the second year in a row.

Lilly played in the now-defunct Women's United Soccer Association with the Boston Breakers. She currently plays alongside USA teammate Kate Markgraf in Sweden's top division with KIF Örebro.

Contents 1 300th cap trivia 2 Club/Pro Statistics 3 Championships 4 External links

• Lilly has appeared in a few games in which her caps total was greater than the total of the opposition's starting lineup.
• Her first cap was in the USA women's 15th match.
• Her 300th cap was in the USA women's 353rd all-time match, which means that she had appeared in about 85% of all USA internationals.
• Of her 300 caps, she has made 289 starts.
• She has started every match that the USA women have ever played in World Cup or Olympic competition.
• Her total number of caps earned after she moved into first place all time for caps among men or women (135) has been surpassed by fewer than 20 men. Of the roughly 25 women who have amassed more than 135 caps, 12 are her current or former teammates.

Year	Team	League	Games Played	Goals	Assists	Points
1994	Tyreso F.C.	Sweden
1995	Washington Warthogs	CISL	6
1998	Delaware Genies	W-League	4	5	2	12
2001	Boston Breakers	WUSA	21	3	10	16
2002	Boston Breakers	WUSA	19	8	13	29
2003	Boston Breakers	WUSA	19	3	4	10
2005	KIF Örebro DFF	Sweden
totals			63	19	29	67

Year	Team	Championship/Medal
1989	University of North Carolina	NCAA National Champion
1990	University of North Carolina	NCAA National Champion
1991	USA WNT	FIFA World Cup Champion
1991	University of North Carolina	NCAA National Champion
1992	University of North Carolina	NCAA National Champion
1996	USA WNT	Olympic Gold
1999	USA WNT	FIFA World Cup Champion
2000	USA WNT	Olympic Silver
2004	USA WNT	Olympic Gold

• Official site
• Bio at US Soccer Federation
• Kristine Lilly's U.S. Olympic Team bio

Soccer America College Team of the Century  v • d • e
Kim Maslin (Goalkeeper) Carla Werden | Debbie Belkin | Sara Whalen (Defenders) Kristine Lilly | Shannon Higgins | Michelle Akers | Julie Foudy (Midfielders) April Heinrichs | Carin Jennings | Mia Hamm (Forwards)