Emily Pickering

Emily Jo Harner (née Pickering; born February 1, 1963) is an American former soccer player, who played on the U.S. women's national soccer team in 1985, the first official U.S women's national team in history.^[3] She assisted the first goal for the national team, and scored the second (both against Denmark).^[4] Pickering was inducted into the Long Island Soccer Player Hall of Fame in 2015.^[5]

Emily Jo Pickering

Personal information
Full name	Emily Jo Harner
Birth name	Emily Jo Pickering[1]
Date of birth	(1963-02-01) February 1, 1963 (age 61)[2]
Place of birth	Massapequa, New York, U.S.
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[2]
Position(s)	Midfielder
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1984	North Carolina Tar Heels
International career
1985–1992	United States	15	(2)

See also

• 1985 United States women's national soccer team

References

1. "Women's monogram awards – Fall sports: Soccer". Annual Commencement in the One Hundred Ninety-fifth Year of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May 13, 1984. p. 41. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
2. "2020 U.S. Women's National Team Media Guide" (PDF). United States Soccer Federation. 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
3. Jones, Grahame L. (July 10, 1999). "Women's Little Trip to Italy Was Start of Something Big". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 12, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
4. "U.S. WNT Flashback – 20th Anniversary of First-Ever Match: Who Scored First?". United States Soccer Federation. August 18, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
5. "LONG ISLAND SOCCER PLAYER HALL OF FAME GALA". Soccer Long Island Magazine. February 25, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

Further reading

• Essays By Oxenham, Gwendolyn (2022), Pride Of A Nation: A Celebration of the US Women's National Soccer Team, Ten Speed Press, ISBN 9781984860842
• Goldman, Rob (2021), The Sisterhood: The 99ers and the Rise of US Women's Soccer, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 9781496228833
• Grainey, Timothy (2012), Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803240368
• Lisi, Clemente A. (2010), The U.S. Women's Soccer Team: An American Success Story, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0810874164
• Nash, Tim (2016), It's Not the Glory: The Remarkable First Thirty Years of US Women's Soccer, Lulu Press, ISBN 1483451526