National Team: Had the highest scoring year of her brilliant career in 1998 with 20 goals and 20 assists ... Made soccer history on Sept. 18, 1998, in Rochester, N.Y. as she scored her 100th career goal in a 4-0 victory over Russia, becoming just the third player to score 100 or more international goals ... Hamm will now chase history again as she guns for the all-time world scoring record of 108 goals held by the long-retired Elisabetta Vignotto of Italy ... Ended 1998 as the second-most capped player in the world behind Kristine Lilly ... Led the USA to the first-ever Goodwill Games gold medal by scoring five of her team's seven goals, including both goals in a 2-0 victory over China in the championship game ... Notched her ninth career hat trick against Denmark in the Goodwill games semifinal match on the heels of her eight career three-goal game against Germany in Chicago, both on national TV ... Through 1997 and 1998, she had scored 38 goals in her last 37 matches ... Named U.S. Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year for the unprecedented fifth consecutive year, 1994-98, the only player honored more than twice ... Member of the gold medal winning U.S. Women's National Team at the 1996 Olympics, scoring just once but setting up both goals in the championship match ... Sprained her ankle against Sweden in the first round of the Olympics, but fought through the injury to lead the U.S. to victories over Norway in the semifinal and China in the final ... Led the team in scoring in 1995 with 19 goals and 18 assists, in 1996 with nine goals and 18 assists and in 1997 with 18 goals and six assists in 16 games ... Scored 39 seconds into the May 2, 1997, match against South Korea after missing the first two games of the Nike Victory Tour and then went on to score eight goals in four Victory Tour games ... MVP of U.S. Women's Cup '97, scoring six goals in three games including three against Canada ... Scored hat tricks on consecutive national TV games, against England on May 9, 1997 and then against Canada on May 31, 1997 ... MVP of U.S. Women's Cup '95, where she scored three goals on long range free-kicks including the equalizer against Norway in the championship game ... Started all five games for the USA at the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden, scoring twice ... Played several minutes at goalkeeper against Denmark in the World Cup in Sweden when regular 'keeper Briana Scurry was ejected and the U.S. had used all its substitutes ... One of nine U.S. women with over 100 appearances for the USA ... Tied with Michelle Akers as the second-leading goal scorer at the 1994 CONCACAF Qualifying tournament with six goals ... The MVP of the 1994 Chiquita Cup ... The youngest member of the 1991 Women's World Cup team at 19, she started five of six games and scored a pair of goals for the USA in China ... An 11-year veteran of the U.S. National Team, she was the youngest woman ever to play with the USA at the age of 15 ... Ended 1998 as U.S. Soccer's all-time leading scorer with 101 goals and 77 career assists (by far a team record) for 278 points.
College/High School: A two-time Missouri Athletic Club and Hermann Award winner, 1992-93 ... Won four NCAA championships with the University of North Carolina, 1989, '90, '92 and '93 ... A three-time NSCAA All-American, she completed her collegiate career as the ACC's all-time leading scorer in goals (103), assists (72) and points (278) ... Had her UNC jersey number 19 retired in 1994 ... She redshirted the 1991 college season to prepare for the 1991 Women's World Cup ... The NCAA's 1993-'94 Honda Broderick Award winner for all female college sports ... NSCAA All-American from Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va., she also played at Notre Dame High School in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Personal: Full name is Mariel Margaret Hamm ... Graduated in May 1994 with a degree in political science ... Married to Christiaan Corry, a Marine Corp pilot ... Named by People Magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in 1997 ... Featured on the cover of the second-ever Sports Illustrated - Women Sport ... Received the prestigious honor of being named the Women's Sports Foundation Athlete of the Year for 1997 ... Won the 1998 ESPY Award for Outstanding Female Athlete at the ESPN Network's annual awards show ... Hobbies include cooking, golf and watching college basketball.
First Appearance: Aug. 3, 1987, vs. China. First Goal: July 25, 1990, vs. Norway
