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Mia Hamm played for Anson Dorrance at UNC, where the Tar Heels won NCAA women's soccer championships in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993, and graduated in 1994 with a political science degree and the Carolina and NCAA career scoring records. She called Chapel Hill home for six years and gave the 2025 Commencement address in Kenan Stadium.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: 19+ things to know about Commencement speaker Mia Hamm
1972– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Tim W. Jackson profiles Tar Heel athletes from the university at Chapel Hill who went on to professional careers, from the best-known names such as Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, Vince Carter, Lawrence Taylor and B. J. Surhoff to many less familiar Tar Heels across several sports. Published by Clerisy Press in 2014, 242 pages with illustrations.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
A life of the soccer player Mia Hamm for readers aged eight to twelve, part of the Great Americans in Sports series. Matt Christopher first published it in 1998 as On the field with Mia Hamm, and Zachary Rau revised and updated the text for this 2015 Little, Brown edition of 177 pages with illustrations and a map. Hamm played at Chapel Hill.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Hamm, Mia, 1972- -- Juvenile literature.
Robert Schnakenberg wrote this 64 page account of the soccer player Mia Hamm, published by Chelsea House Publishers in Philadelphia and dated 2003. It is juvenile biography of women soccer players and connect Hamm to the soccer program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is the Orange County link.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Hamm, Mia, 1972- -- Juvenile literature.
Matt Christopher's 1998 life of the soccer player Mia Hamm, written for young readers and published in Boston by Little, Brown in 111 pages with illustrations. Hamm played soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Hamm, Mia, 1972- -- Juvenile literature.
Mia Hamm as a UNC soccer player in 1989: a headshot mounted on the same page as an action picture of her. From the UNC Athletics binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Included because: Its title names this person.
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Picture: Mia Hamm, 2010. CC BY-SA 2.0. Photograph by Rob Poetsch on Flickr; cropped by Blackcat; This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: cropped. The original can be viewed here: Nomar Garciaparra Mia Hamm IMG 9534 (4308082305).jpg: . Modifications made by Blackcat.; via Wikimedia Commons
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