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=MIA HAMM=

"I hope all you young girls see yourselfs up there..... we were all just like you." said the queen of soccer Mia Hamm. Most people think that Abby Wombach is the best, but Mia Hamm is. Mia Hamm has scored 149 international goal when she played soccer and that is a record for male or female. Mia hamm helped the U.S. Womens soccer team win the world cup in 1999 and 1991. Mia Hamm also starred teams that won gold medals for the U.S. in 1996 and the 2004 summer Olympic Games. She has been one of the indivuals most responsible for spreading the news and popularity for soccer in the U.S.. Her skill, competitive spirit and sportsmanship has gotten her to be one of the most well known athletes in the world and has a role model as for young female athletes. Mia Hamm won the award for the ESPY for female athlete of the year and female soccer player of the year.

When Mia Hamm was born she was born with partial clubfoot on March 17th, 1972in Selma, Alabama. Clubfoot is a deformity which make the foot look rotated at the ankle so there feet face each other. While Mia Hamm had clubfoot she wore casts on her feet to help protect them. Then while she was growing up, her father was in the Air Force. So that effected where the Hamm family lived. (That means they moved around a lot.) When the Hamm family were in Italy, Mia learned to play soccer, and when the Hamm family were in Texas Mia joined her 1st soccer team. (age 5.) At age 14 Mia Hamm was already dominating girls and getting scouted by the U.S. womens national soccer team. As Mia said "You cant just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in there minds so they never want to see you again."

One year later in 1987 when Mia Hamm was just only 15 years old, Mia became the youngest member ever to join the U.S. womens national team. When Mia Hamm was 17 she scored her first ever goal for the U.S. in the game against Canada. Mia gradtuated North Carolina with a B. A. degree in Polictal Science. While Mia was at North Carolina she led the school to 4 of the NCAA. (National Collegiate Athletic Association.) This is quote by Dan Gablefrom Iowa Wrestling " The person who said winning isnt everything, never won anything."

MIa Hamm is still alive today, but is retired. She was married to Christian Cory on December 17th 1994 then they got divorced in 2002. Mia is now married to Normar Garciaparra and has two children, Grace Isabelle and Ava Caroline, who were born March 28th, 2007. When the two girls were born Nomar couldnt make it to the birth, but could coach his wife over the phone. The girls were born 5 weeks early. When Mia Hamm's brother died of narrow bone disease, Mia had a camp for it.

“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” said Dan Gable. Also said by Dan Gable "I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." Mia Ham is kind of like Dan Gable in this quote she said "True champions arent always the ones that win, but those with the most guts." As you can see Mia Hamm is truely a great person, inside and out. I hope whoever read my biography that they enjoyed it and learned something about Mia Hamm.

=﻿BY ALEXIS R CHRISTIANSEN=