In 1999, roughly seven million girls in the U.S. were playing soccer. Each had a 0.00031% chance of making the Tokyo Olympics roster. Sam and Kristie Mewis both did it. Here's how their parents helped get them there.
Bob and Melissa Mewis can still picture the scene in their Hanson, Mass., living room on July 10, 1999. They and their daughters—8-year-old Kristie and 6-year-old Samantha—were glued to the TV as the U.S. women’s soccer team outlasted China on penalty kicks to win the World Cup.
“The couch we had at the time was a fold-out,” Bob Mewis recalled. “So everybody was sitting on that fold-out couch, watching the game, and the girls were very excited.” Like many of the roughly 7 million American girls playing soccer at the time, the Mewises dreamed of playing for the U.S. team. Each had a 0.00031% chance of making the Tokyo Olympics roster.
They both made it. Kristie, now 30 years old, and Samantha, 28, are the first sisters to play together for the U.S. women’s soccer team in a world championship at any level. Even with the recent expansion of the U.S. squad to 22 from 18 under pandemic rules, Team USA is 9% Mewis.Wednesday [July 21] against Sweden, which knocked them from the 2016 Rio Olympic in the quarterfinals. Team USA aims to become the first to win Olympic gold on the heels of a World Cup title.
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