“In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.”

American former professional soccer player and entrepreneur

Tobin Heath is an American former professional soccer player and entrepreneur. She played primarily as a forward and midfielder for the United States national team and is known for a career that reached the highest levels of international women’s soccer. Heath won Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012, and added World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019. She also earned silver at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. The United States Soccer Federation described her as perhaps the team’s most skillful player, and she was named U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year in 2009 and U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year in 2016.