If we put up a statue, maybe it ought to be one of her Mom! :-)

The moderator for the night, UF journalism professor Ted Spiker, asked questions that touched on all points of her life and career. Still, the clear fan-favorite story was the one of how Wambach chose to come to UF.

“I wanted to do my college search on my own and so I took three trips, and after visiting UCLA I thought ‘that’s it, I’m done. I’m going to UCLA’. My mom put her foot down and said that I had to visit five schools, so I was going to choose the school who called me first,” Wambach recalled. “My mom secretly called Becky Burleigh and told her, ‘Hang up the phone and call Abby right now’. Becky called me and I made the visit.”

To cap the night after taking questions from the audience at the end of the event, Wambach paused and told everyone she had something to say.

“I really want to wholeheartedly thank everybody here and tell your friends who aren’t here that I heard you and saw you. I’ve played in a lot of stadiums and I see the Gator flags and Gator chomps. You guys are the best and I am so proud to call myself a Gator.

"I still bleed orange and blue."

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