Tobin Heath

Tobin Powell Heath (born May 29, 1988) is an American professional soccer player, entrepreneur, and artist.

She also played for the 2003 Club National Champion PDA Wildcats team.

From 2004 to 2006 Heath played with the New Jersey Wildcats, then known as the PSA Wildcats, where she helped the team win the USL W-League Championship in 2005 and be crowned USL W-League Runners-Up in 2004, after assisting the team in becoming Champions of the USL W-League Northeast Division in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Heath graduated from Ridge High School in Basking Ridge in 2006, where she played soccer for three years.

Heath was ranked as the No. 2 recruit in the nation in the Class of 2006 by Soccer Buzz magazine and was named to the Parade Magazine All-America team in 2005.

Heath committed to attend the University of North Carolina (UNC) when she was due to begin her junior year at high school.

She did not play soccer in her senior year, instead she decided to train with boys.

In her consensus freshman year in 2006 with the Tar Heels, she was part of the All-America 2006 national championship team and made 23 appearances at left midfield (22 of them were starts), scoring four goals and assisting nine.

As a sophomore, she scored two goals, assisting another five, and was named to the First-Team NSCAA All-American and First-Team All-ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference).

As a junior, she scored eight goals with eight assists, this helped the UNC to a 25–1–2 record and the NCAA title.

As a senior at UNC, she was involved in fifteen Tar Heels goals, five of them she scored and assisted 10.

The team compiled a record of 23–3–1 and recorded 1–0 victories in both the NCAA semi-final and championship game.

She was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team and also the first runner-up for the MAC Hermann Trophy, given to the college soccer's top player.

Heath helped lead UNC to NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship titles in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and four straight Atlantic Coast Conference titles.

UNC soccer coach Anson Dorrance notes that Heath preferred to Nutmeg opposing players rather than dribble the ball around them.

The next year she played for Hudson Valley Quickstrike Lady Blues, the team finished the season second in their division and made it to the 2007 Conference Semifinal.

In 2009 she played one season with California's Pali Blues, who went on to win the USL W-League Western Conference title and the W-League Championship title.

In 2010, she was the first overall pick in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) 2010 college draft and was selected by the expansion team Atlanta Beat.

After suffering an injury to her right ankle in her third appearance for the Beat, she missed the remainder of the 2010 season.

She started in all three of her appearances for the club.

On December 10, 2010, Heath, along with Beat teammates Eniola Aluko and Angie Kerr, were traded to Sky Blue FC in return for the fourth and eighth pick in the 2011 WPS Draft as well as future considerations.

Heath made twelve appearances for Sky Blue, starting in three games.

The team finished fifth during regular season play with 5 wins, 4 draws, and 9 losses.

Playing primarily as a forward and midfielder for the United States national team, she won gold at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as silver at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

With the folding of WPS in 2012, Heath joined New York Fury of the WPSL Elite League.

At the start of the season, she was recovering from an ankle injury.

Afterwards, she played one game with New York Fury and was later called to the national team.

In 2013, Heath signed a six-month contract with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the top-tier French league, Division 1 Féminine until the end of the season on May 23, 2013.

She was described as "perhaps the USA's most skillful player" by the United States Soccer Federation, and was named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year in 2016 and U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year in 2009.

Heath won two NWSL Championships with her former team Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and last played for OL Reign in 2022.

She played for Manchester United and Arsenal in the English FA Women's Super League as well as Paris Saint-Germain in France.

She played for the Atlanta Beat and Sky Blue FC in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS).

In 2019, Heath co-founded a lifestyle brand, re-inc, with fellow athletes Christen Press, Megan Rapinoe, and Meghan Klingenberg.

She co-hosts the podcast, The RE—CAP Show, with Christen Press.

In 2020, she was named to the FIFA FIFPro Women's World11.

Heath was born in Morristown, New Jersey, to parents Jeff and Cindy Heath.

She grew up in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Heath has a younger brother, Jeffrey, and two older sisters, Perry and Katie, who are active in Athletes in Action and Champions for Christ.

Heath started playing soccer at the age of 4 in the back of a YMCA.

She has described herself as a proud and devout follower of the Christian faith and is very close to her family.