Carla Overbeck

Youth

Overbeck began playing soccer at the age of 11, playing for club soccer team the Dallas Sting. With the Sting, she won two national championships.

College

Overbeck played college soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1986 to 1989, where she won the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship each of her four seasons. She was an NSCAA All-America selection three times. During her time as a central defender with the Tar Heels, the team tallied a 95-match unbeaten streak (89–0–6). Overbeck was a four-time member of the NCAA All-Tournament Team and a two-time All-ACC selection. In addition, she was a member of the 1986 Soccer America All-America Freshman Team and was the Most Valuable Defensive Player of the 1988 NCAA Tournament. On May 6, 2006, Overbeck was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame and was a 2010 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame inductee.

Club

Overbeck played for the Raleigh Wings of the W-League in 1998 and helped the team finish with a 14–0 record and clinch the league's championship title. From 2001 to 2003, Overbeck played for the Carolina Courage in the WUSA, the first professional soccer league for women in the United States. She was also on the WUSA Board of Governors. In August 2002, her overtime goal in the semifinal match helped lift the Courage to the WUSA Founders Cup II, the league's championship game against the Washington Freedom, led by Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach. The Courage defeated the…

Overbeck has been an assistant coach for Duke University's women's soccer team since 1992.

Born in Pasadena, California, Overbeck grew up in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where she attended Richardson High School. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in psychology in 1990. In late 1999, Overbeck was diagnosed with Graves' disease. In December 2009, she became an official spokesperson for Instaflex. She and her husband, Greg Overbeck, have one son, Jackson, and a daughter, Carson Elizabeth.

Individual

National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee, 2006 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame inductee, 2010

Team

Sports Illustrated Sportswomen of the Year, December 1999 WUSA Founders Cup II, 2002