Hope Solo ESPN Body Issue: The Year of Solo Continues with Latest Announcement

For being a shy person, Hope Solo sure does find a variety of ways to stay in the spotlight.

ESPN The Magazine has released the list of athletes set to appear in their annual “Body Issue” and Solo is one of the athletes on the list.

The “year of Hope” kicked off with her team’s emergence in the US Women’s World Cup. In case you’ve lived under a rock over the past few months, Solo was the goalie for the team and played spectacularly well until sudden death in the finals.

Since then, the whole country wants a piece of Solo and she is abiding.

It started with a commercial for the Wii video game titled “Just Dance Summer Party” where she and teammate Alex Morgan showed off their moves.

It was a precursor for her next venture as a contestant on season 13 of Dancing With The Stars. She is currently in the third round and isn’t doing too great. Yet she has turned into one of the biggest stars in the show and will likely keep getting the all-important fan vote. She is showcasing her dancing talents in front of almost 20 million viewers on a weekly basis.

Hope also decided to play Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash in a game of FIFA 2012 that doubled as a pretty funny commercial. On top of that, she was in a video that went viral involving a rookie for the MLS team Sporting KC. He read/rapped her a poem telling her is deepest and darkest feelings about the soccer idol.

Now it’s posing semi-nude in a major publication. I’m exhausted!

She will be joined by the likes of Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, gymnast Alicia Sacramone, snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, tennis player Vera Zvonareva, speedskater Apolo Ohno and NHL player Ryan Kesler.

Solo is certainly capitalizing on all of her fame and the only question that remains is simple…what in the world is she going to get herself involved with next?