National Team
In 1991, Fawcett and Jennings helped the U.S. national team win the first women's World Cup that were held in China. She was the only WNT member to play all minutes of the 1995, 1999 and 2003 Women's World Cups, as well as the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. She retired from the WNT in 2004 as the highest scoring defender for the U.S. WNT.
She appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team. Joy and her husband, Walter Fawcett, have three daughters. Their oldest daughter Katey signed a letter of intent to play soccer for the University of Washington. Her brother Eric Biefeld had a brief career with the United States men's national soccer team.
Read more about this topic: Joy Fawcett
Famous quotes containing the words national and/or team:
“Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Relying on any one disciplinary approach—time-out, negotiation, tough love, the star system—puts the parenting team at risk. Why? Because children adapt to any method very quickly; today’s effective technique becomes tomorrow’s worn dance.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)