Briana Scurry Click photo for larger image.

Sport: Women's soccer

Birthplace/hometown: Minneapolis; Dayton, Minn.

Age: 32

College: University of Massachusetts

Olympic experience: She was a member of the Americans' gold-medalist team at Atlanta in 1996, starting and playing every minute of the five matches. It was the first Olympics for women's soccer. But she was injured and did not participate at Sydney in 2002.

International achievement: No goalkeeper in American history has as much as a third of her 129 starts in international competition, known as caps. Since making her first start for the national team in 1994 -- a shutout of Portugal -- she has compiled a 108-10-10 record with 69 shutouts. She was the national team's No. 1 goalkeeper in 1994-99, but an injury kept her out of for most of 2002, and she did not play for two years after that. In 2003, she made a triumphant comeback by going 14-1 in 16 starts and clearly establishing herself as the starter for the upcoming Olympics.

Claim to fame: She promised to "run naked through the streets of Athens, Georgia" if the U.S. would win gold in Atlanta, and did. She made what she described as a quick sprint of 20-30 feet that she videotaped to prove she did it.

Goal for Athens (Greece): To win a second gold out of a field that has vastly improved since Atlanta and, perhaps just as important to her, avenge a stunning, 3-0 defeat to Germany in the semifinal of the 2003 Women's World Cup. Scurry allowed five goals in six games, three of them on breakaways, bringing to an end a 31-0-4 personal streak.

Personal: Is an active volunteer for AIDS awareness and for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. ... Has a degree in political science but hopes to pursue a career in real estate when finished with soccer. ... Brother is a police officer in Houston.

Quotable: "We fell short of what we wanted to accomplish in the World Cup. All of us. And I think I speak for all of my teammates when I say that we will respond to that."