By Cassie Lee
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Trinity Rain Moyer-Rodman (born May 20, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team.
Rodman was selected second by the Spirit in the 2021 NWSL Draft at age 18, making her the youngest draftee in NWSL history at the time. She won the NWSL Championship and earned NWSL Rookie of the Year and NWSL Best XI honors in her first season in 2021.
Rodman was named the U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year in 2021 before making her senior international debut the next year. She scored three goals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where the United States won gold.
Rodman was born in Newport Beach, California, to Michelle Moyer and former professional basketball player Dennis Rodman. She and her brother, DJ Rodman, were raised primarily by their mother in southern California. Rodman has said she went through long stretches without speaking to her father, and she briefly lived with her mother in their car. She also has a half-sister.
Rodman began playing soccer at age four and said it “felt like home” to her as young as seven or eight. She was encouraged by her mother and sister to pursue her dream of becoming a professional soccer player.
Rodman began playing club soccer with SoCal Blues at the age of ten. Her team won four national championships in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) and maintained a five-year undefeated streak.
She never played a match in college as her freshman season was canceled at Washington State due to the COVID-19 pandemic and she decided to turn professional.
In March 2025, Rodman began dating tennis player Ben Shelton.
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
In 526, up to 300,000 people were killed in an earthquake in Syria and Antioch.
In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis were granted a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from New York in his single-engine monoplane, “The Spirit of St. Louis,” bound for Paris.
In 1940, German forces punched through the Allied lines in Abbeville, France, to reach the English Channel. The Battle of Abbeville one week later culminated in the evacuation of Dunkirk.
In 1969, in one of the more infamous and bloody battles of the Vietnam War, U.S. troops took control of Dong Ap Bia mountain, commonly known as Hamburger Hill.
In 1974, Judge John Sirica ordered U.S. President Richard Nixon to turn over tapes and other records of 64 White House conversations on the Watergate affair.
COURTESY www.almanac.com
