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3 unusual facts about Mia Hamm


Carolina–Duke rivalry

UNC was led by future Team USA legends Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm.

Courtney Vandersloot

While Vandersloot regularly played basketball and many other sports as a child—she was also on a fast-pitch softball team that was runner-up in a Washington state tournament at age 11— her favorite sport was soccer; she had a poster of Mia Hamm on her bedroom wall.

Elisabetta Vignotto

Vignotto held the goal scoring record for women's international matches until May 1999, when she was surpassed by Mia Hamm, who scored her 108th goal for the United States.


Women's soccer in the United States

It featured successful American players Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, and many other national team stars including Germany's Birgit Prinz.


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