Mia Hamm

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Mia Hamm
great american soccer player
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Timeline

• In 1987, she joined U.S. national soccer team
• In 1990, she wins NCAA championship
• In1991, she wins women's world cup
• In1996, she wins Olympic gold medal

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Background Information

• She has 2 sisters, 1 adopted brother and a mother
  and father
• Her dad is an air force pilot
• Her mom was a professional ballerina
• When Mia was two or three she joined the air
  force team but she didnt like it so she joined
  dance and she hated it
• Mia liked soccer, basketball and football while
  she was growing up
• In high school, Mia played all boy football
• When she was 13, she started playing soccer and
  she was very good at it

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Challenges

• Mia Hamm was divorced with Christan Corey and
  then married to Boston Redsox short stop Nomar
  Garciaparra
• She was moving all across the world when she was
  a child, which made it difficult to stay in touch
  with friends
• Mias brother Garrett, died in 1997 from a rare
  bone marrow disease

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Accomplishments

• She gave birth to two twins, Grace Isabella and
  Ava Caroline (They where 5 weeks early)
• She had a great soccer career
• Won NCAA championship in 1990
• Won World Cup in 1991
• She graduated from Lake Braddock high school

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Important Information

• One of the challenges she had to over come was
  her brother died and while he was at the doctors
  she looked at him like he was one of her heroes.
• Some of the things I like about this person are
  she stayed with her goals and dreams to become a
  soccer player.
• One of the childhood experiences that caused her
  to stay with soccer is when she was 5 she started
  to play soccer so she stuck with it because she
  loved it. When she was 13 it became serious.

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