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Personal information
Full name Joy Lynn Fawcett
Date of birth (1968-02-08) February 8, 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Inglewood, California, U.S.
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Playing position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Ajax America
2001–2003 San Diego Spirit 43 (12)
National team
1987–2004 United States 241 (27)
Teams managed
1992 Long Beach City Vikings
1993–1997 UCLA Bruins
Honours
Women's football (soccer)
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold 1996 Atlanta Team competition
Gold 2004 Athens Team competition
Silver 2000 Sydney Team competition
FIFA Women's World Cup
Gold 1991 China Team competition
Gold 1999 USA Team competition
Bronze 1995 Sweden Team competition
Bronze 2003 USA Team competition
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Joy Lynn Fawcett (née Biefeld; born February 8, 1968) is an American soccer coach and former professional player. She earned 241 caps with the United States women's national soccer team and retired in 2004 as the highest scoring defender in team history. Fawcett was a founding member of the WUSA and was elected for induction into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2009. She was in the movie Soccer Mom as herself.

Youth

Fawcett grew up in southern California, where she attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California. Her high school team won four league championships. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley where she played on the women's soccer team from 1987 to 1989. She was a three-time, first team All-American. She holds the school record for single-season scoring with 23 goals in 1987. Fawcett graduated from UC Berkeley in 1992 with a BA degree in Physical Education. Cal inducted her into the school's Hall of Fame in October 1997.

Club

Fawcett and forward Carin Jennings both were members of the Manhattan Beach club women's soccer team Ajax in the late 1980s and early 1990s and routinely played at Columbia Park in Torrance, California. In 1991 and 1993, Ajax won the U.S. women's amateur championship. In 1998, she played for Ajax in the first season of the Women's Premier Soccer League. In 2001, Fawcett signed with the San Diego Spirit in the newly established Women's United Soccer Association. She missed most of the season due to an early season pregnancy. She rebounded in 2002 to lead the team in playing time with 19 games. In 2003, she had ankle injury early in the season but came back to play 18 games and gain the first team WUSA All - Star recognition.

National team

In 1991, Fawcett and Jennings helped the U.S. national team win the first women's World Cup that was held in China. She was the only WNT member to play all minutes of the 1995, 1999 and 2003 Women's World Cups, as well as the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. She retired from the WNT in 2004 as the highest-scoring defender for the U.S. WNT.

She appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team.

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 24 November 1991 New Plaza Stadium, Foshan, China Flag of Chinese Taipei (Olympics; 1986–2010).svg Chinese Taipei 7–0 7–0 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup
2. 21 August 1994 Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard, Montreal, Canada Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 5–0 6–0 1994 CONCACAF Women's Championship
3. 10 June 1995 Olympia, Helsingborg, Sweden Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 2–1 4–1 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup

Coaching career

Fawcett was the head coach of the Long Beach City Vikings women's soccer team in 1992, where she had a 5–9–0 record. She then served as the first coach of the UCLA Bruins women's team from 1993 to 1997.

Personal life

Joy and her husband Walter Fawcett have three daughters, Katelyn Rose (b. May 17, 1994), Carli (b. May 21, 1997), and Madilyn Rae (b. June 5, 2001). Their oldest daughter Katey played soccer for the University of Washington from 2012 to 2015. Her brother Eric Biefeld had a brief career with the United States men's national soccer team. She is also the current assistant soccer coach for the United States women's national deaf soccer team.

Fawcett is a part of the ownership group of Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League.

See also

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