Vital stats
Age: 19 Height: 5-4
Lives in: East Brunswick, N.J.
Today’s event
The women’s soccer gold medal game is on NBC between 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Day job
She’s taking classes over the Internet at North Carolina while training with the team.
Olympic experience
This is her first Olympics.
Background
Before her first women’s World Cup in 2003 and her first start for the national team, she broke her left fibula in a collision with Ireland’s goalkeeper 74 seconds into the game. She scored on the play.
Check it out
She was a Parade All-American and the Parade National Player of the Year as a senior in high school, when she also won Gatorade’s National High School Girl’s Soccer Player of the Year.
Did you know?
O’Reilly has a small white poodle named Sugar who can shake hands.
Post-Olympic star potential
Nobody knew who Brandi Chastain was before the 1999 World Cup. O’Reilly will be around for years to come. Star power: 7 out of 10.
In the booth TV broadcasters
JP Dellacamera: In soccer, Dellacamera has called the last five men’s World Cups. He also is the TV voice of the Atlanta Thrashers.
Lori Walker: She is head women’s soccer coach at Ohio State.
