The 2016 Gator graduate and Team USA defender brought home her first Olympic
gold medal
ATHERTON, Calif., Aug. 10,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- US Women's National Team
(USWNT) center-back Tierna Davidson
(SHP '16) helped Team USA secure
the gold medal after a nail-biting 1-0 win over Brazil. With a scoreless, but brutal, first
half of play, the game-winning goal came in the 57th minute,
remaining unchallenged through the final whistle period.
This marks the 25-year-old soccer star's second time playing in
the Olympics. Davidson played on the USWNT at the 2021 summer Tokyo
Olympics where the team ultimately cinched bronze.
During her high school career at Sacred Heart Preparatory (SHP),
Davidson's three seasons remain unparalleled for SHP soccer: each
year her team advanced to Central Coast Section Championship games,
twice capturing section titles. She led her college alma mater
Stanford University to the 2017 NCAA
Championship and was the youngest player on the champion
USA team at the 2019 FIFA Women's
World Cup in France. Tierna was signed to NJ/NY Gotham FC in
January after playing for the Chicago Red Stars the prior five
seasons.
"We are so excited and, of course, extremely proud of Tierna,"
said her father, Greg Davidson, who
is also a math teacher at SHP. "To fight back from her injuries and
challenges during the past couple of years is quite impressive and
says a lot about her."
This is the second Olympic gold medal won by an SHP alumnae in
eight years—water polo player KK Clark (SHP '08) brought home the
gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro summer Olympics.
Davidson joined at least six other Sacred Heart Network schools
alumnae on Team USA at the 2024
Paris Olympics—Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda,
Maryland alumnae Katie
Ledecky, Phoebe Bacon, and
Erin Gemmell, all swimmers; Sacred
Heart Greenwich's Isabella Russekoff
in equestrian and Beth Yeager in
field hockey; and Daisy
Mazzio-Manson of Newton Country Day School of the
Sacred Heart in rowing.
ABOUT SACRED HEART SCHOOLS, ATHERTON
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton was founded in 1898 and is
located on a 63-acre campus in Atherton, California. The school is an accredited preschool
through 12th grade school, with a total enrollment of 1,185
students, and is a member of the International Network of Schools
of the Sacred Heart.
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SOURCE Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton