Lauren Holiday

Lauren Holiday
	February 2012
Personal information
Full name	Lauren Cheney Holiday
Birth name	Lauren Nicole Cheney
Date of birth	September 30, 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s)	Forward, midfielder
Youth career
	Ben Davis High School
College career
Years	Team
2006–2009	UCLA Bruins
Senior career*
Years	Team
2009	Pali Blues
2010–2011	Boston Breakers
2013–2015	FC Kansas City
International career‡
2004	United States U17
2006–2007	United States U20
2005	United States U21
2007–2015	United States
Medal record
Women's soccer
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
FIFA Women's World Cup
Pan American Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 5, 2015; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of October 25, 2015

Lauren Cheney Holiday (born Lauren Nicole Cheney; September 30, 1987) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder and forward for the United States women's national soccer team from 2007 to 2015. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. Holiday played professionally for FC Kansas City in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Boston Breakers in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). She played collegiate soccer for the UCLA Bruins.

Holiday won gold with the national team at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, 2012 London Summer Olympics, and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. She played for the team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup where the U.S. were the runners-up and Holiday was named to the tournament's All-Star team.

In 2007, she was named U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year.^[3] She earned U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year honors in 2014.^[4] She was the first player in NWSL history to have her jersey retired after retiring from the league.

^ "FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 – List of Players: USA" (PDF). FIFA. July 6, 2015. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 2, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011 – List of Players: USA" (PDF). FIFA. July 28, 2014. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 22, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "2007 Young Female Athlete of the Year: Lauren Cheney". U.S. Soccer Federation. December 20, 2007. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
^ Schaerlaeckens, Leander (December 6, 2014). "Lauren Holiday wins USA's Female Athlete of the Year honors". Fox Sports. Retrieved September 6, 2016.