Carin Jennings-Gabarra
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Carin Leslie Jennings-Gabarra | ||
| Date of birth | January 9, 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1980–1983 | Palos Verdes High School | ||
| 1983–1986 | UC Santa Barbara Gauchos | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Southern California Ajax | |||
| National team | |||
| 1987–1996 | United States | 117 | (53) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1987 | Westmont College | ||
| 1988– | Harvard (assistant) | ||
| 1993– | Navy | ||
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Carin Leslie Jennings-Gabarra (born January 9, 1965), née Carin Jennings, is an American retired soccer forward. She earned 117 caps with the United States women's national soccer team from 1987 to 1996 and was awarded the Golden Ball Award as the best player at the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup. In 2000, she was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. She currently coaches women's soccer at the United States Naval Academy.
While born in East Orange, New Jersey, Jennings-Gabarra grew up in Rancho Palos Verdes, California where she attended Palos Verdes High School from 1980 to 1983. During her four seasons playing high school soccer, she scored 226 goals and was a four-time High School All-American and a three-time California Most Valuable Player.
After high school, Jennings-Gabarra attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where she played on the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's soccer team from 1983 through 1986. In 1984, Jennings-Gabarra set the NCAA Division I women's soccer single-season records for goals (34), goals per game (1.55), points (80), and points per game (3.64).
She finished her college career holding numerous NCAA Division I women's soccer records including 102 goals scored, 1.29 goals per game, 60 assists, 0.76 assists per game, 264 points, and 3.34 points per game.
She was named as a second-team All-American in 1984 and 1985 and a third-team All-American in 1987.[1] She graduated from UCSB in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in business management. Gabarra was named the school’s Athlete of the Decade and in 1991 the university inducted Gabarra into its Hall of Fame.[2]
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