Joy Lynn Fawcett (; February 8, 1968) is a retired
American
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soccer
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player. She earned 241
caps
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with the
United States women's national soccer team
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(WNT) and retired from the WNT in 2004 as the highest scoring defender for the U.S. WNT. Fawcett was a founding member of the
WUSA and was elected for induction into the
National Soccer Hall of Fame
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in 2009. She was in the movie ''
Soccer Mom
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'' as herself.
Youth
Fawcett grew up in southern California, where she attended
Edison High School in
Huntington Beach, California
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. Her high school team won four league championships. She then attended the
University of California, Berkeley
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where she played on the women's soccer team from 1987 to 1989. She was a three-time, first team All-American. She holds the school record for single-season scoring with 23 goals in 1987. Fawcett graduated from
UC Berkeley
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in 1992 with a
BA degree in Physical Education. Cal inducted her into the school's Hall of Fame in October 1997.
Club
Fawcett and
forward
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Carin Jennings
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both were members of the Manhattan Beach club women's soccer team
Ajax
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in the late 1980s and early 1990s and routinely played at
Columbia Park
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in
Torrance, California
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.
In 1991 and 1993, Ajax won the U.S. women's amateur championship.
In 1998, she played for Ajax in the first season of the
Women's Premier Soccer League
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. In 2001, Fawcett signed with the
San Diego Spirit in the newly established
Women's United Soccer Association
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. She missed most of the season due to an early season pregnancy. She rebounded in 2002 to lead the team in playing time with 19 games. In 2003, she had ankle injury early in the season but came back to play 18 games and gain the first team WUSA All - Star recognition.
National team
In 1991, Fawcett and Jennings helped the U.S. national team win the
first women's World Cup that was held in China.
She was the only WNT member to play all minutes of the
1995
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,
1999
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and
2003 Women's World Cups, as well as the
1996
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and
2000 Olympics
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. She retired from the WNT in 2004 as the highest-scoring defender for the U.S. WNT.
She appeared in the
HBO
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documentary ''
Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team.''
International goals
Coaching career
She was the head coach at UCLA from 1993 to 1997.
Personal life
Joy and her husband Walter Fawcett have three daughters, Katelyn Rose (b. May 17, 1994), Carli (b. May 21, 1997), and Madilyn Rae (b. June 5, 2001). Their oldest daughter Katey played soccer for the
University of Washington
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from 2012 to 2015. Her brother
Eric Biefeld had a brief career with the
United States men's national soccer team
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. She is also the current assistant soccer coach for the United States Deaf Women's National Team.
References
Joy Fawcett's U.S. Olympic Team bio
External links
Official Player Profile
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1968 births
Living people
American women's soccer players
California Golden Bears women's soccer players
National Soccer Hall of Fame members
United States women's international soccer players
Women's Olympic soccer players of the United States
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in soccer
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in soccer
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Women's United Soccer Association players
San Diego Spirit players
Washington Freedom players
FIFA Century Club
Sportspeople from Inglewood, California
1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players
Women's association football defenders
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
UCLA Bruins women's soccer coaches
American women's soccer coaches
Ajax America Women players
Women's Premier Soccer League players