The date is March 8, 2020. Mia Fishel’s brace for the USA U-20 team helps beat Mexico 4-1 in the CONCACAF U-20 Women’s Championship final, giving Fishel 13 goals for the tournament and seeing the U.S. lift the trophy for the sixth time in nine tournaments.
Fishel wins the competition’s Golden Ball award for best player four years after her incredible showing at the CONCACAF U-15 Women’s Championship saw her bestowed with the same honor.
More than three years later, and now 22, Fishel finally has made her debut for the USWNT senior team. It wasn’t supposed to take this long.
The Sporting News brings you everything you need to know about a player who could prove critical to the U.S. national team at a time of true uncertainty.
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Who is Mia Fishel?
Fishel first burst onto the scene as a young teenager in the U.S. youth national system, starring for the U.S. women with a seven-goal haul at that U-15 Women’s Championship as she helped the United States claim the title.
She committed to storied college program UCLA and would spend three seasons with the Bruins, scoring 32 career goals in 59 appearances, winning the Pac-12 title in her junior year and reaching the semifinals of the NCAA tournament.
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