National Team: The captain of the U.S. Women's National Team ... Started 23 games for the USA in 1998, finishing fourth on the team in minutes played for the second straight year ... Through the end of 1998, she had started 125 of her 128 games played in her national team career ... Captained the USA to the first-ever Goodwill Games gold medal during the Summer of 1998 ... Captain of the gold medal winning U.S. Women's National Team at the 1996 Olympics Games ... Played every minute of the USA's five matches at the '96 Olympic tournament ... One of only two players (Joy Fawcett being the other) to play every minute of all six U.S. games at 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden ... She played in 63 consecutive international games, a record for any U.S. national team player, men or women ... She started all but one of those matches and came out of a game just once ... Overbeck's consecutive minutes streak started August 4, 1993, against New Zealand and she did not come out of a game until January 1, 1996, against Ukraine in Brazil ... She played 3,547 consecutive minutes in that span, facing 19 different national teams and competing in seven different countries ... Her consecutive games streak ended only because she took time off after the Olympics to have a baby ... Took a year off from the national team to have her baby after the Olympic final on Aug. 1, 1996, and returned to the U.S. lineup on Oct. 9, 1997, against Germany in Duisburg, playing in just five matches in 1997 ... Earned her 100th cap for the USA in the Olympic gold medal match ... A finalist for the 1995 Women's Sports Foundation Athlete of the Year in a group that included Bonnie Blair, Steffi Graff, Picabo Street and Rebecca Lobo .... Started every game for the U.S. women in the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup when the USA captured U.S. Soccer's first world championship ... Led a world-champion defense that allowed just five goals in six games ... Scored her first international goal Aug. 19, 1994, when she scored twice in the USA's 10-0 win over Jamaica.
College/High School: Won four NCAA championships while attending the University of North Carolina ... Was named to the Soccer America's All-Freshman Team and was a three-time NSCAA All-American ... Attended Richardson High School in Dallas, where she played volleyball and basketball.
Club: Played for the Dallas Sting, starting at age 11, and blossomed as youth player in the club through the U-19 age bracket ... Won two national championships with the Sting ... Played for the W-League champion Raleigh Wings during the summer of 1998, helping the team to an undefeated season.
Personal: Full name is Carla Werden Overbeck ... Formerly Carla Werden, she married Greg Overbeck Dec. 5, 1992 ... Her husband is part owner of three restaurants in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, N.C. ... Serves as the assistant women's soccer coach at Duke University ... Graduated from UNC in 1990 with a degree in psychology ... Had her first child on Aug. 14, 1997, a baby boy named Jackson August ... Born in Pasadena, Calif., site of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final.
First Appearance: June 1, 1988, vs. Japan. First Goal: Aug. 19, 1994, vs. Jamaica
