Extrainnings

Danesha Adams

Personal information
Full name	Danesha LaVonne Adams
Date of birth	(1986-06-06) June 6, 1986
Place of birth	Bellflower, California, United States
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Chicago Red Stars
Youth career
	FC Slammers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006-	UCLA
2009-	Pali Blues
International career
	United States
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Danesha LaVonne Adams (born June 6, 1986) is an American soccer player from Shaker Heights, Ohio. She is a former forward for the UCLA women's soccer team and is currently a forward for the Chicago Red Stars of the Women's Professional Soccer league.

Career

College career

2004

During her first year at UCLA, Adams played in all 25 games, starting in 23. At the conclusion of the season, Adams was named a Freshman All-American and was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team.

O'Hara's junior year proved to be a good one for the Cardinal, as Stanford advanced to the College Cup for the first time since 1993, defeating 2005 national champion Portland, 1-0.. The Cardinal would fall in the semifinal, 0-1, to Notre Dame, despite fiercely attacking the Notre Dame side all throughout the game after Courtney Barg had scored the lone goal for the Irish in the 14th minute. O'Hara led the team with eight shots.

Professional career

O'Hara was a member of the fourth-place United States U-20 women's national soccer team that competed in the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia. O'Hara scored two goals in the tournament: one against the Congo (for which game she was named FIFA's player of the match) and one against Germany. She was also the first player in the tournament to be ejected from a game, having picked up two yellow cards in the game against Argentina. After 2006, the only American players from that U-20 team still eligible for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup were O'Hara, Tobin Heath, and Casey Nogueira.

O'Hara would rejoin the U-20s, and several of her former 2006 U-20 World Cup teammates, at the 2007 Pan American Games. She scored four goals in the women's football tournament, against Paraguay, Panama, and Mexico. The United States, which only sent their U-20 women to the tournament, would fall in the final game, 0-5, to a full-strength Brazilian senior team featuring Marta.

In February 2008, O'Hara returned to the U-20 women's national team with Cardinal teammate Teresa Noyola to play in the U-20 Four Nations Tournament in Chile. Her last appearance for the U-20s would be in July 2008, at the 2008 CONCACAF U-20 Women's Qualifying Tournament in Puebla, Mexico. Joined by Nogueira, the only other veteran of the 2006 U-20 World Cup still age-eligible and available (Heath had been named to the senior team for the 2008 Olympic Games), O'Hara helped the U-20 team qualify for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile. She scored six goals in the qualifying tournament, lifting her to fifth all-time in goals scored (14) for the U-20 women's national team. However, the United States would lose in the final to Canada. O'Hara did not play in the U-20 World Cup that she helped the United States qualify for, instead remaining with her college team in its NCAA postseason campaign; the number she wore in Mexico, 10, was worn by Portland's Michelle Enyeart in Chile.

Currently, O'Hara is part of the U-23 women's national team player pool.

External links

• Extrainnings – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Stanford player page