Mia Hamm
By: Celine Mangin
Mia Hamm whose real name is Mariel Margaret
Hamm has played soccer with the U.S women’s
national team for 17 years. She has scored 158
international goals more than any other male or
female. (“Mia Hamm Biography”). She was born on
March 17, 1972 in Salem, Alabama. Mia has three
sisters and two brothers, her mom and dad’s name are
Bill and Stephanie. Other than soccer she also enjoyed
watching and playing football. Mia’s dad, Bill was in
the Air force so she moved quite often. She was six
years old and in Italy when she started to really
understand and like soccer. When she moved to Texas
she really started to play. (“Mia Hamm BiographyYouth Years”).
Her brother Garret had always encouraged her to play sports; she looked up to her older
brother. When she was 15 she moved to Virginia to attend Lake Braddock Secondary school
and later received a call to play for the national team, the youngest soccer player ever to play.
Mia went to college in North Carolina after high school. In 1991 she won the Women’s World
Cup and Gold medals in 1996 and 2004. She is one of the FIFA’s top 125 best players. Mia won
the FIFAS Women’s Soccer player of the year in 2001 and 2002. In 1996 her brother Garret
died, who she looked up to from a bone marrow disease called Aplastic Anemia. (“Mia Hamm.
Biography”).
In 1999 Mia created the Mia Hamm Foundation for bone marrow disease after her
brother. After she won the Gold medal for Summer Olympics in 2004 she retired from playing
soccer professionally to start a family. She now has 3 kids. (“Mia Hamm, Wikipedia”). Mia
Hamm is my Hero because she holds a foundation after her brother to help the people with the
same disease. She stayed strong after her brother’s death and was always positive. She was
hard working and makes me think nothing is impossible, you can make it far.
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