Raising Tomorrow's Champions

111 South Street,Plainville MA 02762

03 June, 2021

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This form is to purchase the book: Raising Tomorrow's Champions ABOUT THE BOOK: Ask most of the millions of pre-teen soccer-playing girls in America if they plan to make the U.S. Women’s National Team someday and the answer for them — and most of their parents — will be a resounding “Yes!” Among the most successful international teams in any sport in the past three decades, the USNWT has emerged as a collective cultural icon, with its individual members redrafting the very definition of female across the globe. With the lines blurring between male and female behavior, girls are competing ferociously and celebrating wildly without apology. Women are demanding gender and racial equity, while dressing and speaking authentically, and loving however and whomever they choose. The reality is that making the National Team is about as likely as winning the lottery. Of the tens of millions of soccer players since the team was formed in 1985, only 241 women have ever made it to the highest level as of 2020. In Raising Tomorrow's Champions, one of those players, 16-year professional Joanna Lohman, joins current soccer dad and 40-year journalist Paul Tukey to share the team members’ stories, from the early pioneers like Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm, who are now parents themselves, to modern-day household names like Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. For a true picture of what makes these women champions, Joanna and Paul also talked to their parents, coaches and teammates. The result of this unprecedented access to the National Team is a stunningly revealing portrait of what it takes to make it to the top, not just in soccer, but in life. Not every child will make the most elite team, but the choices they — and their families — make in the face of challenge and adversity may define their childhood, their high school experiences, their college options, and their path forward in life. Not every child will necessarily even play soccer, but the lessons shared within Raising Tomorrow's Champions can help him or her become accomplished, authentic, and satisfied adults no matter what path they choose. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Joanna hasbeen rocking stages and fields all over the globe for more than two decades. She is a former professional soccer player and member of the United States Women’s National Team. Duringher 16-year professional career, she has built a platform for social impact and became the first player in Washington Spirit history to have her jerseyretired. She is author of the newly released, "Raising Tomorrow's Champions", an extraordinary parenting and life lessons book as told through the eyes of the greatest women's soccer players of all-time. She is also a professional speaker, human rights activistand a Sport Diplomat traveling the world running programs in less developed nations. She strives to live an unabashedly authentic life based around deep-rooted acceptance and helps others discover a comfort in their own skin. A working journalist for more than 40 years, Paul Tukey has won awards in the worlds of newspapers, magazines, films, television and books. He launched his career in sportswriting with Maine Sunday Telegram and Portland Press Herald in the 1980s covering the Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots and Bruins. In the ’90s, he founded his own media company, People, Places & Plants, which launched several magazines and an EMMY-nominated HGTV program of the same name. Paul directed, produced and hosted 52 episodes of the program for four years under contract to the Scripps Networks.  Winner of the prestigious Communicator of the Year Award from the American Horticultural Society, as well as the 2018 Green Medal Award from the Garden Writers of America, Paul has been featured in thousands of media outlets from Martha Stewart and Good Morning America as well as National Geographic, Readers Digest and the New York Times, which called him, “The godfather of the natural land care movement.” His two previous books include the Organic Lawn Care Manual (Storey 2007) and Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games (Storey 2012). His 2010 feature-length documentary film titled, “A Chemical Reaction,” profiling the lawn pesticide bans sweeping across Canada and the U.S., earned three EMMY nominations. Now serving as the Director of Environmental Stewardship for the Glenstone Museum in Potomac., Md., Paul has led the way in creating a “living classroom” on the all-organic 300-acre site that includes native meadows, a five-acre organic lawn, and restored streams and tributaries. An avid gardener, photographer, writer, and runner, Paul, 60, now resides in Maryland with his wife, Katie, and daughters Aimee, 14, and Angie, who inspired this book. At just 11 years old, she has been playing elite club-level soccer for five years. Paul’s daughter Christina, a Williams College graduate, is a physician in Bath, Maine, and his son, Paul III, is a singer-songwriter based in Baltimore.