Shorewood to retire Lori Henry's soccer jersey in ceremony Thursday, Oct. 11

Lori Henry, soccer star
Jersey to be retired
Photo courtesy Shoreline Schools

Lori Henry, physical education teacher at Kellogg Middle School in Shoreline, will have her Shorewood High School soccer jersey retired during the Shorewood/Shorecrest girls soccer game at 7:30pm Thursday, Oct. 11 at Shoreline Stadium. 

The game will be televised live on the Shoreline Education Access Channel 26 (Comcast) or 36 (Frontier) in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park.

Lori is a 1984 graduate of Shorewood. She starred for the T-Birds before moving on to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels won three national championships in women’s soccer and Lori was twice selected first team All-America. She was also selected to Soccer America’s All-Decade Team in 1990.

Lori played for the United States Women’s National Soccer Team from 1985 to 1991, including three years as captain. The U.S. team won the first Women’s World Cup in China in 1991. She began her coaching career as an assistant at UNC-Greensboro and later served as the head women’s soccer coach at Ohio State for four years.

She joined the Shoreline Schools as a physical education teacher at Einstein Middle School in 1999. She has been at Kellogg since 2004, coaches track for the Knights and is a volunteer assistant girls soccer coach at Shorecrest.