Hall of Fame
Amy grew up in Edmonds, WA, a suburb of Seattle. She started playing soccer in first grade, and her parents spent their next 12 autumns driving up and down Western Washington to watch soccer in the rain. In the fourth grade she became a goalkeeper after realizing that they do not have to run and get to wear all the best gear. Amy was a four-year Varsity letter winner at Meadowdale High School in Lynnwood, WA. She was a 3-year starter and all-conference player. Amy was recruited to play basketball at Oglethorpe, and entered in the fall of 1996 intending to focus on only one sport for the first time in her life. However, shortly after she arrived on campus word escaped that she had been a goalkeeper and she was quickly recruited to join the soccer team.
Amy played soccer for four years at Oglethorpe, 3 ½ years as the starting goalkeeper. In 1997, her sophomore season, she led the SCAC in saves with 157 and was named 1st-team All-SCAC. In 1998 and 1999 she was a team captain and was voted 2nd-team All-SCAC. She was also a member of the All-Region soccer team in 1999, her senior year. That same year, she was a nominated by the Boy Scouts of America as a Georgia Peach of an Athlete Role Model and was named to the GTE Academic All-America Regional team.
While at Oglethorpe, Amy was a captain and all-conference player for the women’s basketball team as well. She was named Oglethorpe’s female Athlete of the Year in 2001, after her final basketball season. She was on the Dean’s list every semester and was named the 2000 Education Student of the Year. Amy is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma, Alpha Chi, Psi Chi, and Omicron Delta Kappa academic honor societies.
After graduation, Amy began her teaching career and taught for 5 years in Tennessee and Louisiana. In 2002 she married Matthew Flinn, an OU Alumnus (class of ’98) and men’s basketball player. In January of 2006 they moved back to the Seattle area just in time for the birth of their first child. Amy received her Master’s Degree in Education from Penn State University in 2008, right before the birth of their second. Amy and Matt currently live in Woodinville, WA where she is staying home and raising their two young boys, Andrew and Luke. She spent four years coaching high school basketball, but is now kept busy with her position as PTA board member and elementary school volunteer.
Amy would like to thank her parents who were always, without exception, supportive of all of her athletic endeavors. She would especially like to thank them for their willingness to watch endless hours of soccer, a sport they still don’t totally understand, in the rainy Pacific Northwest without complaint and their willingness to purchase ridiculously expensive goalkeeper gloves. She would also like to thank her husband Matt for his support and her OU soccer coaches, Coach Yelton and Coach Lochstampfer, who built her confidence and helped her to be her best. Finally, she would like to thank her teammates who made all the pre-season two-a-days, 7 a.m. practices, 90+ degree days, and red ant bites worth it. The greatest gift Oglethorpe has given her has been the memories and relationships she developed while she was there, and they all began on the soccer field.
