JOY FAWCETT , 31 [Defender]
CARLA OVERBECK , 31 [Defender]

Carla Overbeck (far right) pumped iron the day her water broke in August 1997. Four days after giving birth to Jackson, she was helping oversee two-a-days at Duke, where she's an assistant women's soccer coach. Seven weeks after that, she was playing for the national team. Joy Fawcett knows the drill; she's given birth twice (to Katelyn Rose, now 5, and Carli, 2), and both times she was training within three months. Overbeck and Fawcett knew that regaining speed and strength would be tough after pregnancy, but fitness wasn't their big concern -- family was. "I wanted to make sure the child could be part of my life on the team," says Mama Joy, as Fawcett's teammates call her. Since January, Jackson, Katelyn Rose and Carli have lived with their moms near the U.S. team's Orlando training site (their dads, Greg Overbeck and Walt Fawcett, visit often). On the field Fawcett and Overbeck are as focused as their teammates; off it they seem to have as much energy as their kids do. Their postpractice activities include hauling their brood to county fairs, swimming, even kicking a ball around. "I have no idea how they do it," says forward Cindy Parlow. "After practice, all I can do is collapse on the couch with a bag of potato chips."

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