Forward

Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. At age seven she was put on the boys’ soccer team. At age thirty-five she would become the highest goal scorer—male or female—in the history of American soccer, capturing the nation’s heart with her team’s 2015 World Cup Championship. President Obama called her an inspiration and “badass”; Sandberg called her a role model and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People; and Bill Clinton says that she “has broken through as one of the best players in women’s soccer and emerged as a world champion on the world stage. ”