University of North Carolina Athletics
Patterson Medal Winners
Mia Hamm
- Induction:
- 1994
- Class:
- 1994
1994— Mia Hamm: Women's Soccer (Burke, Va.)
Global sports icon and one of the top soccer players to ever play the game. ESPN named her the No. 1 Athlete of the Title IX era. In 1994, she was voted the greatest female athlete of the first 50 years of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Named one of the three top female soccer players in the 20th century by FIFA.
One of two women’s soccer players named to the FIFA 100 (greatest living players) as selected by Pelé in 2004. Won the Honda Broderick Cup Award in 1993 as the top female athlete in all collegiate sports, the first and still the only Tar Heel to win this award.
Led Carolina to a 92-1-2 record and NCAA championships in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993 (red-shirted in 1991 to train for the first Women’s World Cup).
National Player of the Year and ACC Player of the Year in 1992 and 1993. First-team All-America and first-team All-ACC in 1990, 1992 and 1993. ACC Female Athlete of the Year in 1992-93 and 1993-94. ACC Tournament MVP in 1989 and 1992. NCAA Tournament Offensive MVP in 19992 and 1993.
Led the nation in scoring in 1990, 1992 and 1993. Set the NCAA single-season scoring record with 97 points in 1992 and the NCAA career scoring record with 278 points on 103 goals and 72 assists.
Joined the U.S. Women’s National Team as a 15-year-old, the youngest player in team history, and became a two-time Olympic champion (1996 and 2004) and two-time World Cup champion (1991 and 1999) in her 17 seasons on the USWNT.
FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year in 2001 and 2002 and the U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year five times (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998). Named to USWNT’s All-Time Best XI in 2013. The Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman of the Year in 1997 and 1999.
Concluded her international career as the world’s all-time leading scorer in women’s soccer history with 158 goals, 145 assists and 461 points. She held the all-time FIFA goals record (for men and women) from 2004 to 2013.
Member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Alabama and Texas Sports Halls of Fame and World Football Hall of Fame (first woman inductee in 2013).
Hamm has a building named after her on Nike’s campus in Portland, Oregon.
Global sports icon and one of the top soccer players to ever play the game. ESPN named her the No. 1 Athlete of the Title IX era. In 1994, she was voted the greatest female athlete of the first 50 years of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Named one of the three top female soccer players in the 20th century by FIFA.
One of two women’s soccer players named to the FIFA 100 (greatest living players) as selected by Pelé in 2004. Won the Honda Broderick Cup Award in 1993 as the top female athlete in all collegiate sports, the first and still the only Tar Heel to win this award.
Led Carolina to a 92-1-2 record and NCAA championships in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993 (red-shirted in 1991 to train for the first Women’s World Cup).
National Player of the Year and ACC Player of the Year in 1992 and 1993. First-team All-America and first-team All-ACC in 1990, 1992 and 1993. ACC Female Athlete of the Year in 1992-93 and 1993-94. ACC Tournament MVP in 1989 and 1992. NCAA Tournament Offensive MVP in 19992 and 1993.
Led the nation in scoring in 1990, 1992 and 1993. Set the NCAA single-season scoring record with 97 points in 1992 and the NCAA career scoring record with 278 points on 103 goals and 72 assists.
Joined the U.S. Women’s National Team as a 15-year-old, the youngest player in team history, and became a two-time Olympic champion (1996 and 2004) and two-time World Cup champion (1991 and 1999) in her 17 seasons on the USWNT.
FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year in 2001 and 2002 and the U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year five times (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998). Named to USWNT’s All-Time Best XI in 2013. The Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman of the Year in 1997 and 1999.
Concluded her international career as the world’s all-time leading scorer in women’s soccer history with 158 goals, 145 assists and 461 points. She held the all-time FIFA goals record (for men and women) from 2004 to 2013.
Member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Alabama and Texas Sports Halls of Fame and World Football Hall of Fame (first woman inductee in 2013).
Hamm has a building named after her on Nike’s campus in Portland, Oregon.
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