{"id":271985,"date":"2026-04-17T04:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271985\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:17:24","slug":"mia-hamm-announced-as-2026-central-california-womens-conference-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271985\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Hamm announced as 2026 Central California Women&#8217;s Conference keynote speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Soccer legend Mia Hamm is coming to Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That announcement was made Wednesday night as The Central California Women&#8217;s Conference Board of Directors awarded over $100,000 in grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The money went to 90 different organizations Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Organizers played a video of Mia Hamm announcing she is this year&#8217;s keynote speaker for the conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hamm is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup champion. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Beyond the Goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hamm was hailed by ESPN as the greatest female athlete of the past 40 years and in 1987 was the youngest woman to ever appear in a match for the<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">US Senior Squad at just 15 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If you would like to see the US soccer star at the Central California Women&#8217;s Conference, tickets go on sale in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The conference is September 15, 2026 in Downtown Fresno. <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccwc-fresno.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> For more information click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Soccer legend Mia Hamm is coming to Fresno. That announcement was made Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[117995,706,112,114,113,8606,117994,294,73084],"class_list":{"0":"post-271985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-117995","9":"tag-central-california","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-keynote-speaker","14":"tag-mia-hamm","15":"tag-timely","16":"tag-womens-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}