2006 Soccer Roster
Roster
Laura Hamm
- Position:
- GK
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School/Previous School:
- Tupelo HS
- Hometown:
- Tupelo, Miss.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB: Prepped at Tupelo High School for coaches Shelley Miller and Mark Enis... Played club soccer for the Memphis Futbol Club and coach Richard Bute...Also played club soccer for Tupelo Futbol Club and coach Phil Nash...Has played and started every game in goal for Tupelo since her 8th grade year while helping to lead the Golden Wave to a 13-0-2 record and a top ranking in the state by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger this season...Has allowed just four goals in 1,311 minutes of playing time for a goals against average of 0.27...Has also logged more than 50 saves...In addition, her 14 shutouts this season brings her prep career total to 69...Played and started all 22 games as a prep junior for Tupelo and helped lead the Golden Wave to its second consecutive 5A state championship while recording 86 saves...Garnered first team all-state laurels from the Mississippi Association of Coaches (MAC) and was a Clarion-Ledger all-star selection...Led Tupelo to consecutive state championships in 2003 and 2004...Recipient of Gatorade's "Will to Win" award, while also being named the Clarion-Ledger's state player of the week on two occasions...Also lettered three times in track and field at Tupelo where she was a state qualifier in the pole vault in 2005 after winning the event in the 5A north state meet in 2004...Helped lead Memphis F.C. to the finals of the 2004 Tennessee state tournament after leading Tupelo to runner-up finishes the previous three seasons...A five-year participant (2000-04) in the state of Mississippi Olympic Development Program and was a region pool selection in 2004.
PERSONAL: Born Laura Elizabeth Hamm on Dec. 14, 1987, in Flowood, Miss....Daughter of Elizabeth and Jeff Hamm...Has a younger brother, Jeff, and a younger sister, Leslie...Great uncle, Bob Stevens, is a member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame...Member of Tupelo High's National Honor Society and National Spanish Honor Society...A recipient of Cellular South's Scholar-Athlete of the Month award...Ranks in the top eight percent of her 342-member senior class while maintaining a 3.882 grade point average...Expecting to major in English or Political Science at MSU.
