Emily Pickering

{{Short description|American soccer player (born 1963)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Emily Jo Pickering | image = | full_name = Emily Jo Harner | birth_name = Emily Jo Pickering<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/commencement19841984univ/page/40/mode/2up |title=Women's monogram awards – Fall sports: Soccer |periodical=Annual Commencement in the One Hundred Ninety-fifth Year of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |page=41 |date=May 13, 1984 |access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|2|1}}<ref name="media guide">{{cite web |url=https://d1dhn91mufybwl.cloudfront.net/downloads/pdfs/ftj0bfa5t/ftj0bfa5t_print.pdf |title=2020 U.S. Women's National Team Media Guide |publisher=United States Soccer Federation |year=2020 |access-date=June 3, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604063039/https://d1dhn91mufybwl.cloudfront.net/downloads/pdfs/ftj0bfa5t/ftj0bfa5t_print.pdf |archive-date=June 4, 2020}}</ref> | birth_place = Massapequa, New York, U.S. | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}}<ref name="media guide" /> | clubnumber = | position = Midfielder | collegeyears1 = 1981–1984 | college1 = North Carolina Tar Heels | collegecaps1 = | collegegoals1 = | nationalyears1 = 1985–1992 | nationalteam1 = United States | nationalcaps1 = 15 | nationalgoals1 = 2 }} '''Emily Jo Harner''' ({{nee|'''Pickering'''}}; born February 1, 1963) is an American former soccer player, who played on the U.S. women's national soccer team in 1985, the first official U.S women's national team in history.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Grahame L.|title=Women's Little Trip to Italy Was Start of Something Big|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/10/sports/sp-54646/2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112134526/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/10/sports/sp-54646/2|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 12, 2017|work=The Los Angeles Times|accessdate=October 1, 2016|date=July 10, 1999}}</ref> She assisted the first goal for the national team, and scored the second (both against Denmark).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/03/17/12/57/u-s-wnt-flashback-20th-anniversary-of-first-ever-match-who-scored-first |title=U.S. WNT Flashback – 20th Anniversary of First-Ever Match: Who Scored First? |publisher=United States Soccer Federation |date=August 18, 2005 |accessdate=September 18, 2016}}</ref> Pickering was inducted into the Long Island Soccer Player Hall of Fame in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=LONG ISLAND SOCCER PLAYER HALL OF FAME GALA|url=http://www.soccerlimagazine.com/long-island-soccer-player-hall-fame-gala|publisher=Soccer Long Island Magazine|accessdate=October 1, 2016|date=February 25, 2015}}</ref>

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== Further reading == * Essays By Oxenham, Gwendolyn (2022), ''Pride Of A Nation: A Celebration of the US Women's National Soccer Team'', Ten Speed Press, {{ISBN|9781984860842}} * Goldman, Rob (2021), ''The Sisterhood: The 99ers and the Rise of US Women's Soccer'', University of Nebraska Press, {{ISBN|9781496228833}} * 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:Pickering, Emily}} Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Massapequa, New York Category:Soccer players from Nassau County, New York Category:United States women's international soccer players Category:1963 births Category:American women's soccer players Category:North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer players Category:Women's association football midfielders Category:20th-century American sportswomen