Ann Orrison

{{short description|American former soccer player (born 1961)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Ann Orrison | image = | full_name = Ann Kimberly Orrison-Germain | birth_name = Ann Kimberly Orrison<ref name="birth"/> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|6|29}}<ref name="birth"/> | birth_place = Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.<ref name="birth"/> | height = | position = Defender | years1 = | clubs1 = Arlington United | caps1 = | goals1 = | nationalyears1 = 1985–1986 | nationalteam1 = United States | nationalcaps1 = 5 | nationalgoals1 = 0 }} '''Ann Kimberly Orrison-Germain''' ({{nee|'''Orrison'''}}; born June 29, 1961) is an American former soccer player who was a member of the United States women's national soccer team from 1985 to 1986.<ref name="ussoccer_081805">{{cite news |url=http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/03/17/12/15/u-s-wnt-flashback-20th-anniversary-of-first-ever-match-ann-orrison |title=U.S. WNT Flashback – 20th Anniversary of First-Ever Match: Ann Orrison |website=USSoccer.com |publisher=United States Soccer Federation |access-date=October 3, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005104055/http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/03/17/12/15/u-s-wnt-flashback-20th-anniversary-of-first-ever-match-ann-orrison |archive-date=October 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Soccer: The 17 women who blazed an amazing trail|url=http://www.socceramerica.com/article/13554/us-soccer-the-17-women-who-blazed-an-amazing-tr.html|publisher=Soccer America|accessdate=October 1, 2016|date=November 1, 2000}}</ref>

She played field hockey and lacrosse at the University of Virginia.

==Personal life== Orrison was born in Arlington County, Virginia on June 29, 1961,<ref name="birth">{{cite book |location=Richmond, Virginia |title=Virginia, Births, 1864–2016 |publisher=Virginia Department of Health}}</ref> to Karen ({{nee|Olson}}) and Charles Orrison, and grew up in McLean.<ref name="ussoccer_081805"/> She married Everett Grant Germain III on June 21, 1986, in Fairfax, Virginia.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ann-orrison-marriage |location=Richmond, Virginia |title=Virginia, Marriages, 1936–2014 |publisher=Virginia Department of Health|year=1986 }}</ref> She is the sister-in-law of fellow U.S. international Suzy Cobb Germain, who later married Everett's brother Gregory in 1989.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/suzy-cobb-marriage |location=Richmond, Virginia |title=Virginia, Marriages, 1936–2014 |publisher=Virginia Department of Health|year=1989 }}</ref> Both players had previously featured together in a match against Canada at the 1986 North America Cup, which the Americans won 3–0 (this was Cobb Germain's only international appearance, and Orrison's final match).<ref>{{cite book |title=1997 U.S. Soccer Media Guide |chapter=Women's All-Time International Results and Lineups |location=Chicago |publisher=United States Soccer Federation |page=140 |year=1998}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * Grainey, Timothy (2012), ''Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer'', University of Nebraska Press, {{ISBN|0803240368}} * Lisi, Clemente A. (2010), ''The U.S. Women's Soccer Team: An American Success Story'', Scarecrow Press, {{ISBN|0810874164}} * Nash, Tim (2016), ''It's Not the Glory: The Remarkable First Thirty Years of US Women's Soccer'', Lulu Press, {{ISBN|1483451526}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Orrison, Ann}} Category:Living people Category:1961 births Category:Soccer players from Arlington County, Virginia Category:Sportspeople from McLean, Virginia Category:Soccer players from Fairfax County, Virginia Category:Women's association football defenders Category:American women's soccer players Category:United States women's international soccer players Category:College women's lacrosse players in the United States Category:Virginia Cavaliers athletes Category:Virginia Cavaliers field hockey players Category:American women's field hockey players Category:Lacrosse players from Virginia Category:20th-century American sportswomen