Staci Nicole Wilson (born July 8, 1976) is an American

soccer player A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

and Olympic champion. She is an alumna of

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (also known as TJHSST, TJ, or Jefferson) is a Virginia state-chartered magnet high school in Fairfax County, Virginia operated by Fairfax County Public Schools. The school occupies the buil ...

(

Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city (United States), independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately south of Downto ...

) and the

University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC Sy ...

. She received a gold medal at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

. Wilson was an All-American soccer player during high school in Virginia. She was a dominant defensive player as a member of the

North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer The North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team represent the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Atlantic Coast Conference of NCAA Division I soccer.

team. There, among other honors, she was the 1994 National Freshman Player of the Year. In March 2001, the team retired Wilson's jersey number 27. In March 2012 Wilson became an assistant coach for women's soccer at

Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University (Florida Atlantic or FAU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida, and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Florida, Dania Beach, Davie, Florida, Davie, Fort Lauderd ...

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Flint Hill Taps Wilson for Girls Soccer

Staci Wilson
at Virginia–D.C. Soccer Hall of Fame
Staci Wilson was a star for North Carolina and U.S. women's soccer teams. Now she has Pine School in the state semifinal

1976 births Living people American women's soccer players Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer players Olympic gold medalists for the United States in soccer Parade High School All-Americans (girls' soccer) Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Women's association football defenders Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics United States women's international soccer players Soccer players from Virginia Sportspeople from Fairfax County, Virginia Florida Atlantic Owls coaches Florida Atlantic Owls soccer High school soccer coaches in the United States Philadelphia Independence Women's Professional Soccer coaches Raleigh Wings players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Carolina Courage players Women's United Soccer Association players {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub