Kimberlee Kammerdeiner (; born August 12, 1964) is an American retired

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

and former member of the

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. Considered a pioneer of women's soccer in the United States, she was a member of the 1991 United States women's national soccer team that won the first Women's World Cup in China. From 1988 to 1991, she played 843 minutes without allowing a goal – a record at the time. In 1990, she was named to the Soccer America all-decade team.

Early life

Kim grew up in Rutledge, Pa. outside Philadelphia. Since there was no high school girls soccer team to play on at that time at Swarthmore (Pa.) High School, she played goalie in the boys' soccer program at Swarthmore (Pa.) High School for two seasons. First, she played on the boy's JV team (1980–81) as a sophomore, and then on the boy's varsity team as a junior (1981–82). She was also a standout in Field Hockey, Basketball and Lacrosse, and elected to play field hockey instead of soccer in her senior high school season (1982–83). She also played her club soccer for the Landsdowne (Pa.) Misfits, a girls travel team. Recruited for multiple sports with NCAA D-I scholarship offers for field hockey, soccer and lacrosse, she elected to play soccer for George Mason University.

George Mason University

Maslin-Kammerdeiner attended

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

and played for the Patriots, first as a field player for two seasons, and later as a goaltender, leading the Patriots to a big upset in the NCAA Division 1 championship game over the

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in 1985.

Playing career

International

Maslin-Kammerdeiner parlayed her NCAA title success into a tryout for the US National Team, then coached by Anson Dorrance, who was head coach at North Carolina, the team Maslin's GMU Patriots had beaten in the 1985 Championship. She was selected to, and played for the

from 1988 to 1991, with 17 National Team appearances (caps) in that time frame, recording nine shutouts, including her first 843 minutes of her international career without allowing a goal – a record that still stands. In 1991, she was the starting goalie for the US National team for much of the World Cup qualifying period, but lost her starting job shortly before the 1991 World Cup after losing some pre-World Cup exhibition games. She became the back-up goaltender on the US team that won the first Women's World Cup in China. She retired from competition after the 1991 World Cup, and later became a school teacher and soccer coach in Virginia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maslin-Kammerdeiner, Kim Living people 1964 births United States women's international soccer players Women's association football goalkeepers 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players American women's soccer players George Mason Patriots women's soccer players