Born in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington to parents who both worked for Boeing,[REF] Vandersloot grew up in a neighborhood with many children her age, and said in a 2011 interview that "all we did was play sports, all sports."
While Vandersloot regularly played basketball and many other sports as a child-she was also on a fast-pitch softball team that was runner-up in a Washington state tournament at age 11- her favorite sport was soccer; she had a poster of Mia Hamm on her bedroom wall [REF].