U.S. women’s national team star Trinity Rodman may have a famous father, but she is already succeeding at charting her own legacy as an athlete.
Rodman is the daughter of five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman, though she opted to play a different sport from an early age. The younger Rodman was one of the most promising prospects in the U.S. women’s youth system before making her debut for the senior national team in 2022. She has been a regular since, but from an early age, she was adamant on making the last name her own.
“People do know Trinity Rodman, sometimes first before Dennis Rodman now,” she told ESPN in an interview last year. “I’m not trying to overcome what he had accomplished. I just want to build my own story.”
Here’s a glance at Rodman’s career so far.
Trinity Rodman’s career
Rodman was a highly-rated youth prospect before being drafted by the NWSL’s Washington Spirit in 2021, unconventionally skipping college soccer to go professional and becoming the youngest draft pick in the league at the time. She scored eight…
