Team: Soccer
Year Inducted: 2025

The 2012 USL W-League champions were the most successful Ottawa Fury squad during the club’s 15-year run in the nation’s capital, although the Fury played a trailblazing role in the success of Ottawa and Canadian women’s soccer as a whole during that time.

Renowned for its professional approach to amateur soccer, the Fury provided a launching pad for over 60 players to compete on senior women’s national teams, while the club was a dominant force in collecting 10 division titles, six conference crowns and eight appearances in the W-League Final Four.

The elusive overall championship finally came to fruition in storybook fashion on July 29, 2012. After trailing California’s Pali Blues 1-0 for almost the entire final, the Fury tied it off a free kick on the last play of the game, and then hometown goalkeeper Jasmine Phillips led the tournament-host Fury to a penalty-kick shootout victory at Algonquin College.

That same summer, five former Fury helped Team Canada to a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics. The most famous Fury alumna is Diana Matheson, who scored the goal to give the Canadian women their first Olympic podium, and recently co-founded the Northern Super League. Ottawa Rapid FC will soon debut in the new NSL professional women’s league, with original Ottawa Fury player and Ottawa Sport Hall of Famer Kristina Kiss (Class of 2015) acting as the Rapid’s technical director.