Direct Sportslink has worked with Mia Hamm on numerous event bookings including endorsements (Guardian), personal appearances (DST Systems) and motivational speaking engagements (MSG).
The youngest player ever to play for the national team at age 15, Mia later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She helped take the Tar Heels to four consecutive NCAA women's championships. She was an All-American and Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year for the last three years of her college tenure.
In 1991, when the US women's national team won the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time with Hamm and teammates including Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain, and Kristine Lilly, Hamm became the youngest American woman to win a World Cup championship at the age of 19. In 1993, she graduated from college with the all time records for her conference in goals with 103, assists with 72, and total points with 278.
She has garnered numerous awards and recognitions during her career as a soccer player. Among those, she was elected as the Soccer USA's female athlete of the year five years in a row (1994-1998), she was elected MVP of the women's cup in 1995, she was elected one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People Magazine in 1997, she was elected number 14 among soccer's most influential people by Soccer Business International magazine, and won three ESPY awards in a row, given to her by ESPN, one of them for soccer player of the year and the other two for Female Athlete of the Year.
In 1996, Hamm and the rest of the US women's national team played for the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics in front of 80,000 spectators in Athens, Georgia, then an all-time record for any women's sporting event. That day, Hamm and her teammates were able to beat China to win the gold medal.
In March 2004, Hamm and former USA teammate Michelle Akers were the only two women, and the only two Americans, named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by Pelé and commissioned by FIFA for that organization's 100th anniversary.
She helped lead Team USA to a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and was also chosen by her fellow US Olympians to carry the American flag at the Athens Closing Ceremonies.
