Abby Wambach's Role In Baseball

Natalia Marchanka is known as one of the best all around players for the Women’s Basketball program. She led the Knights in scoring from 2002-2004. She is currently 10th all time in single season scoring and 4th in career points with 1,664. Along with being a great scorer Marchanka led her team in assists her last three seasons putting her 8th and 10th in single season assists. Marchanka is currently 2nd on the career assist list

This is where she first came to play with United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) legend Mia Hamm. Together they become a potent forward team. During this year Abby was named Rookie of the Year and the MVP of the championship game in 2003. While all this is happening she is balancing going back a forth between training for her club and for her country. In 2003, her hard work eventually paid off in the result of helping the USWNT get a third place finish in the FIFA Women’s World Cup and winning the 2004 Olympics. After the end of the 2003 season, the WUSA ended and became Women’s Professional Soccer. Abby joined the updated version of the Washington Freedom this season, but eventually, the team moved to Florida. Through all the confusion of changing leagues and teams, she continued to find success in her club career. In her international career, she also continued to find success after the 2004 Olympics. For years she was a consistent working and scoring for the USWNT and helped lead them to another third place finish during a FIFA World Cup. However, in the following year, her career took a hit. She broke leg right before the Olympics and was unable to compete for months. She came back from her injury with a new level of motivation. This leading to her being named 2010 U.S. Female Soccer Athlete of the Year for the fourth time and in 2011 scoring one of the most famous goals in the history of women’s soccer against Brazil in the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup. These successes lead her to winning the most prestigious award in international soccer, the FIFA Women’s Player of the Year. However through all of her success she had yet to win on the ultimate stage, the Women’s World Cup. This eventually came during the 2015 FIFA World Cup in Canada when the USWNT finally won their first world cup since 1999 and Abby played a huge leadership

She still plays as #4 just like in her Notre Dame days, and has earned high averages in her rookie year. Not only does she hoop for a living, but she has also modeled for Sports Illustrated and Vogue.

Alex Morgan was drawn immediately to soccer at a very young age. Alex was born on July 2, 1989 in San Dimas, California. She grew up with parents who supported her in different ways. Alex Morgan’s mother is Pamela S. Morgan, her father is Michael T. Morgan, and her two older sisters are Jeni and Jeri. As a young girl the family moved to Diamond Bar, California (thefamouspeople.com). Morgan’s parents had supported her throughout her entire career. Alex Morgan’s father was her coach as a youth. Although Morgan’s mother didn’t coach her in soccer she found many ways to support her talented daughter. Alex’s mother and father are very different people. Alex’s mother would say, “Honey, if you lose, it’s ok,” but on the other hand Alex’s father would say, “You’ve got to be the best, no one remembers number two.” Alex Morgan said, “I feel really lucky to

She also said, “I always wanna be supporting my teammates in everything that I do. If its cheering while on the sideline or in the game when I make a big shot.”

Along with having an amazing personal life, and many titles, Alex also had many accomplishments and some injuries. Since Alex has joined the team, they have lost very few games; even when they lose, they come back and make it right. For example, they lost a game to Japan; but in a revengeful game, Alex scored the winning goal(2-1). Alex also lead The Golden Bears, her college team, to the NCAA all americans every year(4). Also, she won a gold medal at the 2015 Olympics, which shows she is an outstanding player. With accomplishments come injuries. Alex has had many bruised bones and sprains, but she always comes back from them. For instance, Alex was out with a sprained ankle for 7 weeks; but came back. Alex currently has a bad knee injury,

“Shoot for the moon even if you miss you’ll land among the stars,” quote by Les Brown. Caroline Curry did not technically shoot for the moon, but for the soccer goal instead. Making the decision to play soccer was one she did not regret. I guess you could say it landed on the moon. It may not seem like a big deal to take up a new sport, but joining soccer was vital to shaping her as a person.

Carli also was attending Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was working to get a degree in Exercise Science and Sports Studies. She was also playing soccer there. She became the university's all time leading scorer and lead them to back to back state cups/championships. After finishing out in college, she got to play on the international level. In the international level she received many awards. In 2007 she was voted MVP of the Algarve Cup and, made her FIFA World Cup appearance that summer. She scored winning goals for the United States in 2008 and 2012. In the FIFA World Cup of 2015 she became the first ever female to score a hat trick in a world cup finals game! She was the top player of the 2015 FIFA women's world cup. She got the Silver Boot award in the 2015 world cup. She also got the Golden Ball award in the 2015 world cup. In 2015 she got selected to play for the world cup all star team. She also made the fastest goal in FIFA world cup history, [she made the goal in 2 and a half minutes]. She received a lot more awards in her international career.[Ott, Tim]

To begin, Abby Wambach is influential to our nation because of her beliefs, she doesn’t want her career to be her only fame, she believes in gender equality, and she doesn’t want to be noticed as a soccer player. For example, according

By showing others that even the shortest amount of words with confidence, it can go a long way. She has made an impact. Although, she knows that that is only possible by having confidence. When people see a confident, strong, independent person like Alex they will aspire to be like her. She is influential enough, that people become like her and influence others. Anyone can do anything and it is especially easy when you have a positive influence. Alex Morgan is that positive influence to not only young athletes but women in general.

Mia Hamm’s professional soccer biography is distinctive and filled with numerous accomplishments. Hamm graduated college with the record of 103 goals, 72 assists and helped win all four NCAA titles for University of North Carolina (UNC). (Lincoln Library of Sports Champions). Mia broke the all-time international goal record with her 108th goal against Brazil (Lincoln Library of Sports Champions). On the UNC tar heels team she only lost one out of the 95 games she played. She graduated in 1994, with a degree in political science, and the university retired her number 19 jersey that same year. Mia was the winner of female athlete of the year from 1994 to 1998 (“The 1990’s Sports: Head Line Makers.”). Mia returned back to the World Cup for the third time as a member of Women’s National Soccer team in 1995. That year, the U.S. team took bronze (third) and Norway won the gold (“Hamm, Mariel (Mia) Margaret”). She helped the U.S. soccer team get

Solo was born on July 30, 1981 in Richland, Washington. Her childhood was far from simple; her father was in and out of her life, as well as in and out of prison, and had stolen money from her mother on multiple occasions. In Solo’s own words “he was unreliable at best and a criminal at worst” (p. 44). Despite his erratic behavior, Jeffrey Solo was an important person in Hope’s life, particularly in her soccer career, right up until his sudden death in 2007. While Solo is widely recognized as the face of women’s goalkeeping in the US, many people don’t know she was a forward for most of her life growing up, and a prolific a goal scorer on top of it. She began playing goalie for her Olympic Development Program (ODP) team an older team selected her as their backup keeper. Throughout her teenage

George Adkins is an exceptional soccer player whom I intend to marry; he will soon become one of the largest soccer stars in the country receiving a sizeable salary to play his

I would like to give you some feedback, I have received from coaches this year about Kara and they have been very positive. They have been impressed with her ball placement on punts, punt distance, communication with backline and the way she attacks and charges the ball. Although, they noted that she needs to work on is reaction to the attack “not being hesitant when to charging the ball to block or

Kerri Walsh has had an incredible life containing volleyball, even after getting married and having kids. “The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don’t think I’ll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.” She has also competed while she was pregnant with Joseph in the following Olympic Games in 2008. She was pregnant with Scott during the following 2012 Olympic Games. Even becoming a wife, and a mother did not stop her from doing what she loves. Her life revolved around volleyball since she was young.