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General - 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist...one of just three active collegians chosen to play on the U.S. Team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...the youngest member of this year's Olympic Team at age 20...one of the nation's top collegiate midfielders...earned first-team All-America honors in 2007 from the NSCAA and Soccer Buzz and was a second-team Soccer America MVP and Top Drawer Soccer All-America...named a second-team All-America as well as a consensus freshman All-America on UNC's 2006 national championship team...named a member of the full U.S. National Team in 2008 with 13 caps and two goals through games of July 6, 2008.....started 22 games for the Tar Heels at the left halfback spot in both the 2006 and 2007 college campaigns...missed the first five games of the 2006 season playing with the U.S. U20 National Team at the World Championship in Russia...made her Tar Heel debut against Washington on September 8, 2006 and then started the final 22 games of the season beginning with the match at Portland...ranked as the No. 2 recruit in the nation in the Class of 2006 by Soccer Buzz magazine...coach Anson Dorrance calls her an American player with Brazilian like skills...has great one-on-one abilities combined with the attacking mentality of the Brazilian soccer temperament ...Dorrance says Heath would rather nutmeg a player than dribble around her. National Team Experience - Currently a member of the USA Women's Olympic Soccer team heading to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China...earned her first 13 caps with the National Team in 2008...earned a spot in the National Team training camp in 2007 as the team prepared to play in the World Cup but did not see any game action with the full team in 2007...started in the summer of 2007 for the U.S. team which played in the Pan American Games in Brazil...the U.S. team was a U20 team which claimed the silver medal, losing to Brazil's full national team in the finals of the Pan Am Games...played on the U16 Women's National Team from 2002-04 and the U17 team in 2004 and 2005...started on the U.S. U20 National Team at the 2006 World Championship in Russia...that team took fourth place in the tournament. Club Soccer -- Played for the PDA Wildcats team that won the 2003 club national championship. Sophomore Season (2007) -- Appeared in 23 games, missing one due to an ankle injury late in the season suffered in the NCAA first-round match... started 22 games... scored her first goal against San Francisco and assisted on the other goal in the match... scored her other goal of the season against Virginia Tech... recorded a two-assist match against Ohio State and single assists against Clemson and Wake Forest... ended the season with nine points... first-team All-ACC selection... one of five finalists for the 2007 U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year Award... Soccer Buzz Player of the Year finalist and Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy semifinalist... NSCAA First-Team All-America... Second-Team Soccer America MVP honoree...Soccer Buzz First-Team All-America selection...Top Drawer Soccer second-team All-America choice... Soccer Buzz and NSCAA First-Team All-Southeast Region Team choices...in the preseason was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List and to the Soccer Buzz Elite 18 honor list. Freshman Season (2006) -- Played in 23 matches, starting in 22 of them, the first time against 2005 defending national champion Portland on the Pilots' home field...was one of Carolina's top point producers with 17 on four goals and nine assists...scored a goal in her Tar Heel debut off the bench against Washington...also scored against Miami, Duke and NC State...had assists in eight different games, including two versus Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament third round...assisted on Heather O'Reilly's first goal in Carolina's regular-season win over Florida State...had her top point game of the campaign with a goal and an assist against NC State..also had assists against Maryland, Wake Forest, NCSU in the ACC Tournament, UNC Asheville and Navy, the latter two NCAA Tournament contests...was a Soccer Buzz National Freshman of the Year finalist...second-team All-ACC honoree in 2006 and a Freshman All-ACC selection...named to Academic All-ACC Women's Soccer Team...named to All-Tournament Team at 2006 NCAA College Cup...a Soccer Buzz second-team All-America...Soccer Buzz' first-team freshman All-America squad and also named to Soccer America's first-team All-Freshman honors list....was named second-team freshman All-America by Top Drawer Soccer...NSCAA Southeast Region second-team listee...first-team All-Southeast Region as named by Soccer Buzz...Soccer Buzz's Southeast Region Freshman of Year. Prep - Graduated from Ridge High School on June 23, 2006...was a four-year varsity letter winner in soccer...was named to the Parade All-America team in 2005...also named the Gatorade New Jersey Player of the Year...made the Star Ledger's First Team All-State, First Team Group 3 and First Team All-County Teams and named the paper's New Jersey Player of the Year...was also an honor roll student. Personal - Given name is Tobin Powell Heath...nicknamed Tobs...was born on May 29, 1988 in Morristown, N.J. to parents Jeff and Cindy Heath...has a younger brother, Jeffrey, 14, and two older sisters, Perry, 22, and Katie, 24...Athletes for Action and Champions for Christ participant.
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