Jackie Mynarski

Jackie Mynarski is a soccer player on the University of Maryland's Women Soccer team. She is the hero of many young soccer players in her hometown of Somers, New York. In high school she played volleyball, basketball and soccer. She started on the varsity soccer team as a freshman and scored 107 goals in her high school career. In basketball, she scored 1,070 career points, her basketball jersey is hanging on the wall in her high school gym. She has a full scholarship at the University of Maryland to play on the soccer team.

Jackie Mynarski was born in Yonkers, New York on February 3, 1978. She moved to Somers, New York and started playing soccer when she was six years old. She used to play soccer with the boys when she was little. She has been a member of the Regional Olympic Development Team since 1993. She has played soccer in France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, and England.

Her favorite things to do are running, play a game of basketball with her friends, or eat chocolate! Jackie loves chocolate-especially the cookies they have at college.  She says, "they're great!" She has hot chocolate every morning, too. Her favorite number is 17 (her jersey number at Maryland). Her favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. She has two pets, a cat named Domino, and a ferret named Fuzzy.

When Jackie graduates from college, she wants to join the FBI. She wants the chance to help others. Jackie says, "I feel the FBI would provide many challenges for me."

At college, Jackie favorite course was about dinosaurs, but she can't major in dinosaurs. She is studying history and how the American Government works.

We hope to see Jackie Mynarski at the next Olympic games in Australia!

1998 Wayne, third grade

Update: Jackie has graduated from the University of Maryland as one of the schools all time leading goal scorers. She still plays soccer and is currently in law school at Catholic University in Washington. D.C.

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