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National Team:
Member of the Gold Medal winning U.S. Women's National Team at the 1996
Centennial Olympic Games ... Had the assist on Tiffeny Milbrett's gold-medal-clinching
goal v. China ... Started and played every minute of the USA's five matches
at the `96 Olympic Games ... One of two players to play every minute of
the United States' six games in the 1995 FIFA Women's World Championship
in Sweden ... Suffered broken right leg while competing in the 1995 U.S.
Olympic Festival in Denver ... Played with the 1993 CONCACAF championship
team ... Member of the 1991 U.S. Women's World Championship Team ... Named
U.S. Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year in 1988 ... Played for the West
team at the 1987 Olympic Festival in North Carolina and the 1994 Festival
in St. Louis. College/High School: Three-time All-American, 1987-89,
from the University of California-Berkeley ... Helped lead her team to third-place
finishes in the NCAA tournament in 1987 and `88 ... Set a Cal-Berkeley school
record for goals scored in a season with 23 in 1987 ... Attended Edison
High School in Huntington Beach, CA, where she helped the team to four straight
league championships, was named the league's most valuable player and was
selected MVP of Southern California by the Los Angeles Times. Club:
Played club soccer for Ajax of Southern California, champions of the
U.S. Women's Amateur National Cup 1992-93. Personal: Full name Joy
Lynn Fawcett ... Formerly Joy Biefeld, she is married to Walter Fawcett
and they have two daughters, Katelyn Rose, born May 17, 1994 and Carli born
May 21, 1997... Named UCLA's first women's soccer coach May 25, 1993 and
in her fifth season led the team to the quarterfinals of trhe NCAA Tournament,
and was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1997. Resigned her position at
UCLA in December of 1997 to concentrate on her playing and her family. Graduated
from Berkely in 1990 with a degree in Physical Education. | |||
