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One day in San Dimas, California there was born a brown eyed and brown haired little girl. Alex Morgan was born to Pamela.S. and Michael Morgan. Alex also had two sisters, Jeni and Jeri Morgan. Little did this family know that Alex would be the youngest soccer player to be invited to a national team. A fun fact about Alex is that she was a multisport athlete as a child.

When Alex was fourteen she played for a league soccer team. The team was having trouble with coaching. So Alex reached out to Mia Hamm, a professional soccer player, and asked her to personally coach her team. Mia responded saying she would be delighted to come and coach her team. Mia Hamm was actually Alex’s childhood idol. Shortly, after she turned sixteen she went to Diamond Bar High School. After high school she went to the University of California at Berkely By this time Alex was on the national team.Alex had said that she was very happy about winning her first Olympic gold medal in 2012. This was her most important accomplishment. …show more content…
These are Alex’s exact words, “When I was dating my now husband, his mother was a recent cancer survivor. Now that she’s more than five years cancer-free. It was to honor her, and then it was a way for me to have consistency in my life.”

“Whatever bring you down will eventually make you stronger.” This quote is used all the time most from young girl soccer players. Alex has got this quote and said this quote after two of her ankle injuries. But today Alex is all healed up and still playing soccer. Alex Morgan will always be remembered in the history of soccer. Either in the hall of fame or by young soccer players she will be

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