National Team: Started 24 matches for the USA in 1998, her first full year back in the lineup after having her second daughter, and picked up where she left off, playing 1,992 minutes, the most on the team ... Member of the gold medal winning team at the 1998 Goodwill Games ... Scored two goals with three assists on the year ... Named MVP of the NIKE U.S. Women's Cup '98, the first defender to win the award, and scored the opening goal in the championship game against Brazil ... Played just one match in 1997 after returning to the U.S. team following the birth of daughter Carli ... Has started every game she has played for the USA since coming on as a substitute against Holland on May 28, 1991, a total of 95 games ... Of her 126 caps, she has started 124 of those matches ... Member of the Gold Medal winning U.S. Women's National Team at the 1996 Olympic Games ... Earned her 100th cap in the Olympic semifinal game ... Started and played every minute of the USA's five matches at the '96 Olympic Games, assisting on the game-winning goal in the gold medal match ... Took time off after the Olympics to have her second child and did not play for the USA until Nov. 1, 1997, against Sweden in Chattanooga, Tenn. ... One of two players to play every minute of the United States' six games in the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden ... Suffered broken right leg while competing in the 1995 U.S. Olympic Festival in Denver but made a complete recovery ... Member of the U.S. team that won the title at the 1994 CONCACAF Qualifying Championship in Montreal and helped the team qualify for the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden ... Member of the U.S. team which won 1991 World Cup in China ... Named U.S. Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year in 1988 ... One of nine U.S. players to player more than 100 games.
College/High School: Three-time All-American from 1987-89 at the University of California, Berkeley where she is the all-time scoring leader with 55 goals and 23 assists ... Inducted into the UC Berkeley Hall of Fame in Oct. 1997 ... Helped lead Cal to third-place finishes in the NCAA tournament in 1987 and '88 ... Set a UC Berkeley school record for goals scored in a season with 23 in 1987 ... Attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach, Calif., where she helped lead the team to four straight league championships, was named the league's most valuable player and was selected MVP of Southern California by the Los Angeles Times.
Club: Plays club soccer for Ajax of Manhattan Beach, champions of the U.S. Women's Amateur National Cup in 1992, '93 and '98.
Personal: Full name Joy Lynn Fawcett ... Formerly, Joy Biefeld, she is married to Walter Fawcett ... Joy and Walter have two daughters, Katelyn Rose, born May 17, 1994, and Carli, born in May 21, 1997 ... Named UCLA's first women's soccer coach May 25, 1993, and in her fifth season at the helm of the Bruins, led the team to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament ... Named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1997 ... Resigned her position at UCLA in December of 1997 to concentrate on playing for the national team and spending time with her family ... At one point during 1997, she was coaching UCLA, coaching a youth club team and playing for the national team while raising two children, all at the same time, earning the title of the ultimate Soccer Mom ... Graduated from Berkeley in 1990 with a degree in physical education.
First Appearance: Aug. 3, 1987, vs. China. First Goal: Dec. 16, 1987, vs. Australia.
