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U.S. Soccer Star Hope Solo Convicted of DWI After Being Found Slumped at Wheel

The goalkeeper’s 2-year-old twins were in the backseat of her car when she was found by police.

U.S. soccer star Hope Solo was convicted of driving while impaired on Monday four months after she was found passed out at the wheel of a car in a North Carolina Walmart. The former goalkeeper of the USWNT pleaded guilty to the offense and was given 30 days in prison—which she won’t have to serve because she has spent a month in rehab—and a further 23 months suspended. She was also fined $2,500 and ordered to pay $600 lab costs. The 40-year-old, who won Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012 and the World Cup in 2015, was arrested on March 31 after a member of the public noticed her passed out for over an hour in the driver’s seat of a car with the engine running. Her 2-year-old twins were in the backseat of the vehicle at the time. The passerby called police and the responding officer could smell alcohol on her. She refused a breathalyzer test but a warrant-issued blood test found she was three times over the legal limit. “I underestimated what a destructive part of my life alcohol had become,” Ms. Solo wrote in a statement on Instagram. “I made a huge mistake. Easily the worst mistake of my life.”