Completed Event: Women's Soccer versus #2 Notre Dame (Semifinals) on November 6, 2025 , Loss , 1, to, 2
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2020 Tokyo Olympics | Quinn
7/23/2021 10:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Women's soccer was added to the Summer Olympics card in 1996, coinciding with the U.S. Women's National Team's emergence as a world power. The Americans claimed gold on home soil in Atlanta in that first Olympic tournament, bolstered by a starring performance from defender Carla Overbeck, who has been a Duke assistant coach since 1992. The USWNT has won the championship in four of the six Olympic tourneys that have been held, and joins Sweden and Brazil as the only countries to qualify every time since the sport joined the Games.
Ranked No. 1 in the world this summer, the U.S. team may be favored to add another gold in Tokyo but it will likely be a challenge. Defending Olympic champion Germany, ranked No. 2, and No. 3 ranked France didn't qualify this time, but the other eight teams in the top 10 of the world rankings are in the 12-team field. Coming off a fifth-place showing in Rio, the USWNT will be looking for another title to follow up their last two World Cup golds as the best team on the planet.
One of the nations that hopes to compete for a podium position with the U.S. is Canada. They won the bronze medal at both London '12 and Rio '16, while in between hosting the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and setting all-time attendance records for that event. In the Olympic field for the fourth straight time, Canada is ranked No. 8 in the world and was the only country to reach the women's soccer podium in both 2012 and 2016.
The 18-player Canadian roster features former Duke women's soccer all-star Quinn, who also played in the 2016 Olympics and the 2019 World Cup in France. The 25-year-old Toronto native debuted for the Canadian senior national team in 2014 while still a Blue Devil and has now appeared in 63 matches with 36 starts.
Quinn had a five-year career for Duke (2013-17) that included two trips to the College Cup, first-team All-ACC and All-America status and recognition as the 2017 ACC midfielder of the year, the first Blue Devil to earn that honor.
Quinn was the No. 3 pick in the 2018 National Women's Soccer League draft — the highest selection ever by a Canadian in the NWSL — and has been playing professionally since then.
In September 2020, Quinn came out publicly as transgender in an Instagram post and uses they/them pronouns.
"Coming out is HARD," wrote Quinn, who no longer uses a first name assigned at birth. "I know for me it's something I'll be doing over again for the rest of my life. As I've lived as an openly trans person with the people I love most for many years, I did always wonder when I'd come out publicly."
Quinn said in an interview with The Trans Sporter Room podcast that competing as an openly trans athlete in the Olympics could be influential or positively impactful for other trans people.
"I think it is really exciting to potentially be a trailblazer in that sense," said Quinn. "But at the same time, I'm pretty positive that there's been trans people at the Olympics. They just haven't been out during their time (there). And so for me, I think that's just really exciting that I can be out…It speaks to the places that we're moving and I hope that there (are) many trans folks that are going to follow me in those steps."
This marks the fourth consecutive Olympics in which a former Duke women's soccer player has competed. Before Quinn, 2002 grad Rebecca Smith suited up for New Zealand in 2008 and 2012.
Credit: GoDuke the Magazine
#GoDuke
Ranked No. 1 in the world this summer, the U.S. team may be favored to add another gold in Tokyo but it will likely be a challenge. Defending Olympic champion Germany, ranked No. 2, and No. 3 ranked France didn't qualify this time, but the other eight teams in the top 10 of the world rankings are in the 12-team field. Coming off a fifth-place showing in Rio, the USWNT will be looking for another title to follow up their last two World Cup golds as the best team on the planet.
One of the nations that hopes to compete for a podium position with the U.S. is Canada. They won the bronze medal at both London '12 and Rio '16, while in between hosting the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and setting all-time attendance records for that event. In the Olympic field for the fourth straight time, Canada is ranked No. 8 in the world and was the only country to reach the women's soccer podium in both 2012 and 2016.
The 18-player Canadian roster features former Duke women's soccer all-star Quinn, who also played in the 2016 Olympics and the 2019 World Cup in France. The 25-year-old Toronto native debuted for the Canadian senior national team in 2014 while still a Blue Devil and has now appeared in 63 matches with 36 starts.
Quinn had a five-year career for Duke (2013-17) that included two trips to the College Cup, first-team All-ACC and All-America status and recognition as the 2017 ACC midfielder of the year, the first Blue Devil to earn that honor.
Quinn was the No. 3 pick in the 2018 National Women's Soccer League draft — the highest selection ever by a Canadian in the NWSL — and has been playing professionally since then.
In September 2020, Quinn came out publicly as transgender in an Instagram post and uses they/them pronouns.
"Coming out is HARD," wrote Quinn, who no longer uses a first name assigned at birth. "I know for me it's something I'll be doing over again for the rest of my life. As I've lived as an openly trans person with the people I love most for many years, I did always wonder when I'd come out publicly."
Quinn said in an interview with The Trans Sporter Room podcast that competing as an openly trans athlete in the Olympics could be influential or positively impactful for other trans people.
"I think it is really exciting to potentially be a trailblazer in that sense," said Quinn. "But at the same time, I'm pretty positive that there's been trans people at the Olympics. They just haven't been out during their time (there). And so for me, I think that's just really exciting that I can be out…It speaks to the places that we're moving and I hope that there (are) many trans folks that are going to follow me in those steps."
This marks the fourth consecutive Olympics in which a former Duke women's soccer player has competed. Before Quinn, 2002 grad Rebecca Smith suited up for New Zealand in 2008 and 2012.
Credit: GoDuke the Magazine
#GoDuke
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