Mia Hamm

Mia Hamm: Soccer Player (Ferguson Career Biographies)
$25.00
Soccer Player provides information on how to become a professional athlete while tracing the life and career of one of the world's leading soccer players. The first female team-sport superstar in the United States, Mia Hamm has been called one of the greatest soccer players of all time. After displaying a natural talent for soccer at a very young age, at age 15 Hamm became the youngest member to join the U.S. National Women's Soccer Team. She gained national recognition during her college career with the University of North Carolina Tar Heels and later as an Olympic gold-medal winner. She led the United States to several World Cup victories and set a record for most goals scored by any soccer player, male or female. Even with her fame and unbeatable skill, Hamm is known for her modesty and for being the ultimate team player.

The Vision Of A Champion: Advice And Inspiration From The World's Most Successful Women's Soccer Coach
$19.95
This is a wonderful book about soccer and training, and the mental toughness girls possess that will help them all through life. This book will also help any parent who struggles with the proper involvement level with a soccer-daughter, and the reinforcement needed to help make the correct choices as she evolves with the game of soccer.

This book also gives extraordinary attention to the evolution of leadership roles for females, and the developement of these leadership skills in all young women.

There were hundreds of times i wanted to read passsages or paragraphs to each of my soccer-daughters after i was brought to near tears by the passages of empowerment and success for female athletes.

Winners Never Quit!
$6.99
Mia Hamm's winning picture book introduces a little girl with a passion and a natural talent for the popular game. When she kicks, she scores! But one day she can't do anything right and stomps off the field in a huff. When she comes back a day later, her teammates have a surprise for little Mia. Yes, the book shares the author's own key to losing gracefully.
Star of the U.S. National Soccer Team, Olympic gold medalist, World Cup champion and five-time U.S. Soccer Player of the Year, Mia Hamm is a strong role model for children. With Winners Never Quit, she shows she is also a good writer who remembers what it was like to be a child. Her cadenced prose is right on target for her audience, propelling the simple plot at a compelling pace. The satisfying conclusion makes its point gently but effectively.
Lively watercolor and ink illustrations add to the appeal of this sporty story. The expressive cartoons leave no doubt about the fictional Mia's excitement, outrage, puzzlement, and pique.
Three bonus pages at the end of the book show photographs of the real Mia in action, from a rugged 8-year-old playing on a children's soccer team to a world champion.
Winners Never Quit is ideal for sharing with soccer-happy 4- to 7-year-olds.

Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy & Kristine Lilly nesting dolls set
$12.50
Set of five wooden nesting dolls featuring the five '91ers who pioneered American women's soccer: Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy and Kristine Lilly. MINT in original box.