Angel City midfielder Madison Hammond is grateful she can be a role model for Native American girls, but admits it has been hard fighting for minutes.
Madison Hammond didn’t set out to be a trailblazer. Yet when she found herself on that path, she didn’t turn back.midfielder said. “But I have become, for lack of a better term, an inspiration to a lot of kids.”
Though she says that humbly, there’s certainly a lot about Hammond that qualifies as inspiring. She was a four-year starter at Wake Forest, where she also played the violin in the school orchestra, made the Atlantic Coast Conference’s all-academic team four times and was a member of the National Honor Society as well as separate honor societies in Spanish, science and history.Angel City’s Madison Hammond plays during an NWSL Challenge Cup match against San Diego on April 2.
“I didn’t even know I was the first native player in the NWSL. I’m just Madison,” said Hammond, who is Navajo, San Felipe and Black. Although she grew up in New Mexico, she moved with her mother Carol Lincoln, who works with the U.S. Public Health Service, to Virginia when she was in the fifth grade, leaving much of her family behind in the southwest. And while she has long understood and appreciated her background, it’s only recently that she’s come to appreciate what it means to others.
“I met with a girl from the Navajo nation after [a] game and she was just so excited to see me,” Hammond said. “I don’t take myself that seriously, but I gave her my jersey and to see how much it clearly meant to her, that kind of shifts your perspective on what sport can do for young people and young people of all backgrounds.
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