Abby Wambach
Soccer champion and author
Abby Wambach is a former US women's national team soccer player and the author of Wolfpack. She also co-created We Can Do Hard Things.
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American Born 1980 in Rochester, United States
About Abby Wambach
Abby Wambach was born on June 2, 1980, in Rochester, New York. She played for the US women's national team from 2003 to 2015 and won Olympic gold medals in 2004 and 2012. She also won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and was named FIFA World Player of the Year in 2012. Wambach wrote the memoir Forward, published in 2016, and then Wolfpack, published in 2019. Both books became New York Times bestsellers. She also co-hosts the podcast We Can Do Hard Things, and the book We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions was created with Glennon Doyle, Amanda Doyle and Treat Media. Away from the field, Wambach is a founder of the media company Treat Media. She also co-founded Wolfpack Endeavor, which works on leadership development for women.