She previously played for the Chicago Red Stars in the WPS, the Boston Breakers in the WUSA, and the United States women's national soccer team.

At Detroit Country Day, she helped guide the soccer team to the state title in 1991, scoring 16 goals with 26 assists.

[7] She was a three-time NSCAA All-American, a three-time all Big East selection, the 1997 Big East defensive player of the year, and the defensive MVP of the NCAA's Final Four in 1995, the year in which her team won the NCAA women's soccer championship.

[9] In 2005, she played professionally for KIF Örebro in the Swedish league alongside longtime USA teammate Kristine Lilly.

[10] She was scheduled to play with the Chicago Red Stars in the WUSA's successor, Women's Professional Soccer, in its inaugural 2009 season.

[12] Ten months after giving birth to twins, she returned to the Red Stars in 2010, played nearly every minute of the season, and made the All-Star team.

[21] She worked for ESPN FC during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup as a studio analyst and often appeared on SportsCenter during the tournament.

She is a mother of three kids, a son named Keegan in September 2006 and a set of twins, a girl Carson and a boy Xavier, in the summer of 2009.

In 2015, she graduated with a Masters in Kinesiology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with her research being selected to be presented at the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.