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Mia Hamm

BIRTHDAY: She won't tell, but August 3, 1987, is when she made the U.S. soccer team

ABOUT HER
At 15 years of age she became the youngest person to play soccer on the U.S. women's or men's national team. At 19, she led Team USA to the world championship.

Mia Hamm is also perhaps the best female soccer player in the world. She has won the U.S. Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year Award two years in a row and scored 103 goals, the greatest number in NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) women's soccer history. She was the three-time ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) Player-of-the-Year. She created NCAA single-season records for assists, as well as for scoring. Hamm won the Hermann trophy as the nation's top collegiate player for both '92 and '93. No one has played more international games for the United States than her 114.

ESPN called her the "Ambassador to Women's Soccer."

AWARDS/HONORS

• All-time leading scorer in NCAA women's soccer history
• Three-time ACC Player-of-the-Year (1990, 1992, & 1993)
• Three-time National Player-of-the-Year (unanimously in 1992 & 1993)
• 1994 recipient of the Honda Broderick Cup, given to the most Outstanding Female Athlete in all of college sports
• NCAA Tournament Most Valuable Player Offense (1992 & 1993)
• ACC Tournament Most Valuable Player (1989 & 1993)
• Won both the Missouri Athletic Club and the Hermann trophies twice as top collegiate female player (1992 & 1993)
• Was the Most Valuable Player of the 1994 Chiquita Cup and the 1995 US Cup

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