Mia Hamm Biography

Fast Facts

• Hamm attended the University of North Carolina and helped the Tar Heels win four NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championships in five years
• She red-shirted the 1991 season to focus on preparation for the inaugural 1991 Women's World Cup in China
• In 2003, she and Michael Jordan were named in the ACC's Greatest Athletes of the conference's first fifty years
• Hamm played in four FIFA World Cup tournaments- 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003 as well as in three Summer Olympic Games- 1996, 2000 and 2004
• Hamm scored 158 international goals for the United States
• She held the record for the most goals scored by a United States player until Abby Wambach broke the record in 2013