Mia Hamm made Carolina home before her game reached the world

Posted May 6, 2025
Mia Hamm — a 4-time NCAA champion, 2-time World Cup winner, 2-time Olympic Gold Medalist, and 2-time FIFA World Player of the Year — will return to Chapel Hill this weekend as keynote speaker at Spring Commencement. When Hamm retired from soccer in 2004, Anson Dorrance called his former player "our most important female athlete ever." (UNC.edu)

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