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Debbie Keller - Wikipedia

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Debbie Keller

Keller in 1995

Personal information

Full name

Deborah Kim Keller^[1]

Date of birth

March 24, 1975 (age 49)

Place of birth

Winfield, Illinois, United States

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Position(s)

Forward

College career

Years

Team

Apps

(Gls)

1993–1996

North Carolina Tar Heels

Senior career*

Years

Team

Apps

(Gls)

1997

Rockford Dactyls

1999

Fortuna Hjørring

2000

Rockford Dactyls

International career

1995–1998

United States

(18)

Medal record

FIFA Women's World Cup

	1995 USA	Team competition

*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Deborah Kim Keller (born March 24, 1975) is an American retired soccer forward and former member of the United States women's national soccer team. She was the collegiate National Player of the Year in 1995 and 1996.

Early life

Born in Winfield, Illinois, Keller was raised in Naperville where she attended Waubonsie Valley High School and played for the women's soccer team where her mother was the head coach. Throughout her high school career, Keller scored 144 goals and served 92 assists. She was named a Parade All-American twice and was named to the Chicago Tribune Top 20 Scholar-Athlete Team.^[1]

North Carolina Tar Heels

Keller attended University of North Carolina from 1993 to 1996 where she played for the Tar Heels led by national team coach, Anson Dorrance.^[2] During her junior season, she scored 23 goals and served 14 assists in the 26 games she played.^[1] Five of her goals came during Tar Heels' 8–0 defeat of North Carolina State University.^[3] The following year, she scored 18 goals and served 16 assists in 22 games.^[1]

In 1998, Keller and her Tar Heel teammate Melissa Jennings filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Dorrance that ended ten years later in a settlement.^[4]^[5]

Playing career

Club

In March 1999 Keller signed for Danish Elitedivisionen team Fortuna Hjørring, scoring on her debut on April 1, 1999.^[6] She received a letter of intent from Women's United Soccer Association, but did not join the new league because of Dorrance's involvement in it.^[7]

International

Keller played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1995 to 1999. In 1998, her 14 goals ranked third on the team behind Mia Hamm and Tiffeny Milbrett.^[8] She was cut from the team before the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup and unsuccessfully took legal action to be reinstated, suggesting her exclusion by coach Tony DiCicco had been a retaliation for the Dorrance lawsuit.^[9]

Personal life

After retiring from soccer, Keller went to beauty school to become a hairstylist. She was married in 2001 to Chris Hill.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Debbie Keller". Soccer Times. Archived from the original on December 16, 2004. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
^ DeSimone, Bonnie (June 15, 2003). "Outcast with a cause". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
^ "Tarpley Scores Four Goals As Carolina Blanks Wake Forest". University of North Carolina. October 14, 2003. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
^ "Dorrance, former player settle sexual harassment suit". USA Today. January 14, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
^ "Is different approach needed?". Sports Illustrated. November 23, 1998. Archived from the original on April 18, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
^ Wahl, Grant (April 19, 1999). "Soccer". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
^ French, Scott (May 8, 2000). "Four players, four views" (PDF). Soccer America. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
^ Jones, Grahame L. (March 1, 1999). "Keller Is a Star on the Outside Looking in". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
^ Longman, Jere (May 11, 1999). "Keller Loses Bid to Return to U.S. Women's Team". New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
^ DeSimone, Bonnie (June 15, 2003). "Outcast with a cause". Chicago Tribune. Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved August 4, 2022.

External links

Debbie Keller – FIFA competition record (archived)
Soccer Times player profile Archived December 16, 2004, at the Wayback Machine

v t e United States squad – 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup third place
1 Scurry 2 Staples 3 Manthei 4 Overbeck (c) 5 Roberts 6 Keller 7 Rafanelli 8 Hamilton 9 Hamm 10 Akers 11 Foudy 12 Jennings-Gabarra 13 Lilly 14 Fawcett 15 Venturini 16 Milbrett 17 Lalor 18 Webber 19 Cromwell 20 Harvey Coach: DiCicco

Soccer America Women's Player of the Year

1985: Gmitter
1986: Heinrichs
1987: Akers
1988: Higgins
1989: Higgins
1990: Lilly
1991: Foudy
1992: Hamm
1993: Hamm
1994: Venturini
1995: MacMillan
1996: Keller
1997: Whalen
1998: Fotopoulos
1999: Fair
2000: Mäkinen
2001: Wagner
2002: Sinclair
2003: Tarpley
2004: Thorlakson
2005: Sinclair
2006: O'Reilly
2007: Cheney
2008: Nogueira
2009: O'Hara
2010: Press
2011: Taylor
2012: Dunn
2013: Brian
2014: Brynjarsdóttir

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