High School and College
Higgins grew up in Kent, Washington where she attended Mount Rainier High School. She graduated from high school in 1986 and entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that fall, playing on the women’s soccer team from 1986 to 1989. During those four seasons, UNC-Chapel Hill won four consecutive NCAA Championships. Higgins scored the game winning goal in the last three championship games. She was a two-time first team All American (1988 and 1989) and the recipient of numerous awards including the 1988 and 1989 Soccer America Player of the Year, 1989 ISAA Player of the Year and the 1989 Hermann Trophy. In 2000, she was named to the Soccer America College Team of the Century. Higgins graduated from UNC in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial relations.
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