cover photo from Andy Mead/Icon Sportswire
The most exclusive position in all of US Soccer: the USWNT’s goalkeeper. Only 29 women have played goalkeeper for the United States Women’s National Team in 42 years. Branching off the men’s goalkeeping era post I did a few years ago, the same methodology applies here. The graphs portray how featured a goalkeeper was with the national team by comparing their own games played vs. the available caps in the previous twelve months. Each month is then broken down by the percentage of games each goalkeeper played in the last twelve months. Sharp rises and falls indicate when a goalkeeper received caps or was not called in.
All-Time USWNT Goalkeeper Caps
1. Hope Solo (202 caps)
2. Briana Scurry (175 caps)
3. Alyssa Naeher (115 caps)
4. Nicole Barnhart (53 caps)
5. Siri Mullinix (45 caps)
6. Saskia Webber (28 caps)
7. Mary Harvey (27 caps)
8. Ashlyn Harris (25 caps)
9a. Tracy Noonan (24 caps)
9b. Amy Griffin (24 caps)
11. Casey Murphy (20 caps)
12. Lakeysia Beene (18 caps)
13. Kim Maslin-Kammerdeiner (17 caps)
14. Kristin Luckenbill (14 caps)
15a. Adrianna Franch (10 caps)
15b. Jill Loyden (10 caps)
15c. Jane Campbell (10 caps)
18. Kim Wyant (9 caps)
19. Claudia Dickey (8 caps)
20a. Jen Branam (6 caps)
20b. Janine Szpara (6 caps)
20c. Jen Mead (6 caps)
20d. Phallon Tullis-Joyce (6 caps)
24. Mandy McGlynn (5 caps)
25. Jaime Pagliarulo (3 caps)
26a. Emily Oleksiuk (2 caps)
26b. Gretchen Gegg (2 caps)
26c. Ruth Harker (2 caps)
26d. Aubrey Kingsbury (2 caps)
1985 - 1994
Featured Goalkeepers
2. Briana Scurry (175 caps)
7. Mary Harvey (27 caps)
9b. Amy Griffin (24 caps)
13. Kim Maslin-Kammerdeiner (17 caps)
18. Kim Wyant (9 caps)
20b. Janine Szpara (6 caps)
20c. Jen Mead (6 caps)
26b. Gretchen Gegg (2 caps)
26c. Ruth Harker (2 caps)
The decade featured an erratic number of games, limiting opportunities for goalkeepers to showcase their abilities. In 1987, 1989, and 1991, the national team played 11, 1, and 28 games, respectively. UCF alum Kim Wyant started in each of the first six games, while Amy Griffin and Mary Harvey collected the bulk of the appearances in the lead-up to the 1991 World Cup. Allman played in sixteen of the nineteen games from 1987 to 1988 but would eventually be named backup at the World Cup to Harvey.
1995 - 2005
Featured Goalkeepers
1. Hope Solo (202 caps)
2. Briana Scurry (175 caps)
5. Siri Mullinix (45 caps)
6. Saskia Webber (28 caps)
7. Mary Harvey (27 caps)
9a. Tracy Noonan (24 caps)
12. Lakeysia Beene (18 caps)
14. Kristin Luckenbill (14 caps)
20a. Jen Branam (6 caps)
20c. Jen Mead (6 caps)
25. Jaime Pagliarulo (3 caps)
26a. Emily Oleksiuk (2 caps)
As Harvey’s time with the national team waned, some new faces would eventually supplant the World Champion. Harvey was 30 by the time the 1995 World Cup rolled around and while Saskia Webber had established herself as a promising young goalkeeper, it was Briana Scurry who sprang onto the scene at the start of 1994.
Until the end of the decade, Scurry received at least half of the caps every year, with UNC product Tracy Noonan making the biggest dent at the end of 1997. Siri Mullinix started the 2000 Olympic silver medal run as then-coach April Heinrichs opted for Mullinix over Scurry due to her spending "too much time appearing on talk shows and too little time at the gym”. A young hotshot goalkeeper named Hope Solo, who was still playing at the University at Washington, earned her first cap in the spring of 2000 but Scurry would eventually regain her starting spot for the 2003 World Cup and 2004 Olympics.
2005-2016
Featured Goalkeepers
1. Hope Solo (202 caps)
2. Briana Scurry (175 caps)
3. Alyssa Naeher (115 caps)
4. Nicole Barnhart (53 caps)
8. Ashlyn Harris (25 caps)
15b. Jill Loyden (10 caps)
15c. Jane Campbell (10 caps)
20a. Jen Branam (6 caps)
Solo managed to earn a bulk of the caps for over a decade, dipping off slightly due to shoulder surgery at the end of 2010. Solo would start for the USWNT during the 2011 and 2015 World Cups but the starting spot in the summer of 2007 was controversially split between Scurry and Solo. Barnhart notched 53 appearances over her career, despite playing in the NWSL for nearly a decade after her last cap. Alyssa Naeher’s rise to the starting position took a few years but by the end of 2016, Solo’s 17-year run wound down.
2017-2022
Featured Goalkeepers
3. Alyssa Naeher (115 caps)
8. Ashlyn Harris (25 caps)
11. Casey Murphy (20 caps)
15a. Adrianna Franch (10 caps)
15c. Jane Campbell (10 caps)
19. Claudia Dickey (8 caps)
20d. Phallon Tullis-Joyce (6 caps)
24. Mandy McGlynn (5 caps)
26d. Aubrey Kingsbury (2 caps)
The post-Hope Solo era emerged with Alyssa Naeher receiving the majority of the caps, hovering right around 75% of goalkeeper caps for several years. Ashlyn Harris split the leftover minutes between Adrianna Franch and Jane Campbell but 2026 has seen a lack of a majority leader entering the 2027 World Cup cycle.