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.
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