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May 5, 2004

Michelle Akers is elected to the Hall of Fame

Michelle Akers' response

Thank you to the Hall of Fame for recognizing and keeping track of our history. The game has been going on a long time and there have been many people who have put this game on the map and it¹s really an honor to included with those people.

You play your whole career working on getting better, thinking about what I have to do to get better. When you lose, what I have to do to win or coming back form an injury or whatever challenge is in front of you. Then, when I retired, I had the chance to look and revisit, look inside and see what we did as a team. I really need to say thanks to my teammates and my coaches. We lived a lot of days, hard days at that, together, and, managed to come out on top. Without my teammates and my coaches and a lot of people, working their butts off around me, I never would have had this opportunity.