5 Things to Know About Tobin Heath, Forward for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
Born on May 29, 1988, in Morristown, New Jersey, Heath grew up with affection for surfing and skateboarding alongside soccer. Eventually leaving her hometown of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, for college at UNC Chapel Hill, she loved communal living because of"the ability to walk into the hallway and juggle or play guitar with whomever was there," her USWNT bio says.
While on a soccer team retreat at Ocean Isle Beach, Heath, a senior at the time, famously passed over the regular beach house beds for an air mattress, which usually went to the underclassmen."I'm sure they still use this AeroBed," her former teammate Brittani BartokESPN."A freshman every year is probably like, why is my bed sandy? And it's because Tobin used it as a surfboard.
After graduating from Chapel Hill in 2010, Heath crashed on friends' couches between national championships and international tournaments, finally buying a permanent home in Portland after the 2015 World Cup. After this year's world championship, she'll return home to Portland to play for the Portland Thorns FC.Yep, the now world-class athlete first kicked around a soccer ball at a local YMCA in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. She was 4 years old at the time.
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