The Washington Spirit forward may have got her sporting genes from her father but it is her mother who she credits as her role model
Trinity Rodman is a rarity in soccer.
Almost all American women her age take a well-traveled path: They play soccer in college and then, after graduation, they join the National Women’s Soccer League via the draft or sign in Europe.
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