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===North Carolina Tar Heels, 1989β1993=== From 1989 to 1993, Hamm attended the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], where she helped the [[North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer|Tar Heels]] win four [[NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship]]s in five years. She [[Redshirt (college sports)|red-shirted]] the 1991 season to focus on preparation for the inaugural [[1991 FIFA Women's World Cup]] in China.<ref name="macHermann" /> North Carolina lost one game of the 95 she played on the team.<ref name="espn_110811">{{cite web|last1=Jackson|first1=Melanie|title=Mia Hamm weighs in on UNC's recent losses|url=https://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentary/story/_/id/7208411/mia-hamm-weighs-north-carolina-recent-losses|work=ESPN|access-date=June 3, 2017|date=November 8, 2011}}</ref> She earned [[All-American]] honors, was named the [[Atlantic Coast Conference]] (ACC) Player of the Year for three consecutive years,<ref name=cnn_pitn/> and was named [[ACC Athlete of the Year|ACC Female Athlete of the Year]] in 1993 and 1994.<ref name="great_americans_book">{{cite book|last1=Christopher|first1=Matt|title=Great Americans in Sports: Mia Hamm|date=2015|publisher=Little, Brown Books for Young Readers|isbn=978-0316261005}}</ref> She graduated from North Carolina in 1994 with the ACC records for goals (103), assists (72), and total points (278).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/acc/sports/w-soccer/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/12-13WSOCrecords.pdf|title=2011 Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Soccer|work=CBS Sports|page=10|access-date=October 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025203649/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/acc/sports/w-soccer/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/12-13WSOCrecords.pdf|archive-date=October 25, 2013}}</ref> In 2003, she and [[Michael Jordan]] were named the ACC's Greatest Athletes of the conference's first fifty years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jordan, Hamm Named ACC's Greatest Athletes|url=http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/104512/|publisher=WRAL|access-date=June 3, 2017|date=March 13, 2003}}</ref> Hamm was a member of the United States women's national college team that won a silver medal, being defeated by [[China women's national football team|China]] in the final, at the [[1993 Summer Universiade]] in [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref name="nc_shof">{{cite web|title=Mia Hamm|url=http://www.ncsoccerhalloffame.com/mhamm2.htm|publisher=North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame|access-date=June 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116041927/http://www.ncsoccerhalloffame.com/mhamm2.htm|archive-date=November 16, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Football|url=http://universiade.fjct.fit.ac.jp/en/kekka/buffalo/football.html|publisher=Fukuoka Junior College of Technology|access-date=June 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192401/http://universiade.fjct.fit.ac.jp/en/kekka/buffalo/football.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
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