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AUGUST 2021 11 Another past Olympian, Ed Moses, also credits former UVA head coach Mark Bernardino for providing huge inspiration. "The day I took my recruiting trip to UVA I told him I was going to make the Olympics two years later," Moses recalled. "He looked at me and said, 'Amazing, we have two years to get this done!' "At that point I knew he believed in the 18-year-old me sitting in front of him." Moses' impressive UVA swimming career included setting world records at the 2000 NCAA Championships in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events. He went on to achieve his ultimate goal, breaking an American record at the 2000 Olympic Trials fol- lowed by winning two medals while representing the U.S. at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney — the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke and gold as part of the world record-setting 4x100 medley relay. "The most memorable Olympic moment was walking through closing ceremonies and seeing thousands of people cheering and appreciating the hard work and dedication it takes to win a gold medal," Moses said. "It finally sunk in at that point that I would remember and appreciate everyone along the way that helped me achieve success." One of Moses' greatest achievements was winning the 2000 NCAA Championships in two different events and becoming the first American male to break three world records in two days, all while representing UVA at 19 years of age. He set a world record in the short- course 100-meter breaststroke (57.47) in January 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden, set the world mark in the short-course 200-meter breaststroke later that month and then lowered it again in January 2004 in Berlin with a 2:02.92 time. After graduating in 2004 with a degree in sports medicine, Moses served as a volunteer assistant coach for UVA and eventually returned to competing and participated in the 2011 U.S. Masters Short Course. Moses furthered his sporting career as a semi-professional golfer, appeared in the Golf Channel's "Big Break Disney Golf" in 2009, served as a contestant on the Netflix series "Ul- timate Beastmaster" in 2017 and was a contestant on television's "Mental Samurai" in 2019. He earned an MBA from UCLA, co-founded and served as the vice president for MoJo Marketing & Media, and is currently the director of sales for The Olive Feed Corporation. Moses won a silver medal (100-meter breast- stroke) and was a part of a relay team that claimed gold (4x100 medley) at the 2000 Olym- pics in Sydney. Angela Hucles still holds UVA women's soccer career records in goals made (59), total points (138) and game-winning goals (19), and earned first team All-ACC honors each of her four years (1996-99). Following her college career, Hucles won two Olympic gold medals (2004 Greece, 2008 Beijing) and finished third in two World Cups as a member of the U.S. Women's National Team. April Heinrichs, one of Hucles' college coaches, was a U.S. National Team coach at the same time, and Hucles benefited from playing for a coach who knew her and what she could bring to the U.S. team. Hucles' most memorable Olympic mo- ments involved walking around the Olym- pic Village for the first time and standing on the podium to receive gold medals. "There's something so powerful about feeling the collective team unity of what we accomplished, listening to our national anthem, and seeing our family and support- ers waving our flag in the stands," she said. Throughout her youth, Hucles was in- spired by various people and events, but recalls her original goal, dream and desire of representing her country on the soccer field came from the team itself. Her dad brought home a VHS cassette tape of the Women's National Team in their first-ever World Championship, now known as the World Cup. "I was inspired by that team and those women," she remembered. "From that mo- ment I had something bigger that I wanted to be and accomplish in my life." The Olympics experience is something she "can always hold onto, feel proud of, share, think about with positivity and fond- ness, and draw strength from." Hucles enjoyed a significant professional career. She was selected in the 2001 WUSA inaugural draft by the Boston Breakers and spent four years with them before returning to the club team Boston Renegades in 2005. When Women's Professional Soccer was established in 2008, Hucles was assigned to the Boston Breakers and appeared in 19 games once the league started in 2009. She retired from her club and international ca- reer at the conclusion of the season. Hucles' club, national and Olympic ex- periences set the stage for her long and suc- cessful career path that is filled with honors and recognitions. She is a past president of the Women's Sports Foundation Athlete Advisory Board, founder and CEO of the Empowerment Through Sport Leadership Series, and former Advisory Board member for You Can Play. She was named the 2009 Humanitarian of the Year by the U.S. Soccer Foundation, and was a Peace Queen Cup gold medal- ist, five-time Algarve Cup medalist and Yolanda L. Jackson Give Back Award win- ner. She was also a finalist for the Hermann Trophy in 1999. Hucles continues to impact the sport's community by serving as a speaker on the important topics of leadership, equality and anti-bullying. She is a founding inves- tor in Angel City FC and is also the club's vice president of player development and operations. While playing for the U.S. National Team, Hucles won two Olympic gold medals (2004, 2008) and finished third in a pair of World Cups. ED MOSES | SWIMMING ANGELA HUCLES | SOCCER