It was a perfect summer day for NYC to honor the Women's World Cup champions with the first-ever ticker-tape parade for a women's sports team. The U.S. National Women's Soccer Team waved and cheered to their adoring fans from floats along the Canyon of Hero(in)es as a seemingly inexhaustible supply of confetti was tossed from buildings above.

The USWNT had practiced a number of waves:

Amy Rodriguez #FTW! A video posted by U.S. Soccer WNT (@ussoccer_wnt) on Jul 10, 2015 at 9:44am PDT

And fans shouted out their appreciation...



After the parade, Mayor Bill de Blasio welcomed the team at City Hall and presented members with keys to the city. He told the crowd of 3,500 at the ceremony:

You can see out there the love that the people of this city and the people of this country have for this team, and what they mean to all of us. You can see it in the faces of men and women, boys and girls. And it was just the purest deepest sense of admiration. Our hearts are with this team, aren’t they? And when they bought home that trophy they also bought back a message about the power of women; about the strength of women; and about the need to create a more equal society for all. Young women who watched that game will grow up and they’ll tell their daughters and they’ll tell their sons about that 2015 championship team that made history; and opened minds and bought us together. This is what it really means to be one nation - one team.

Crowd is eating up "We are the champions" after World Cup Parade. #NYTparade pic.twitter.com/zlR1mfUvbz — Amy Zerba (@amyzerba) July 10, 2015

The players were pretty blown away by the day:

A message from @abbywambach for the city of New York and the #BestFansInTheWorld! #ThankYou A video posted by U.S. Soccer WNT (@ussoccer_wnt) on Jul 10, 2015 at 11:43am PDT

Here's video of the City Hall ceremony: