Article: More than just a pretty face: Heather Mitts is often called "the Anna Kournikova of soccer," but that tag neglects her considerable on-field skills.(Biography)

GLIDING ACROSS THE TURF AT Villanova Stadium in her bright red Philadelphia Charge uniform, Heather Mitts is in her element. For three seasons, she has been a fixture in the back for the Charge, reading the ever-changing patterns of a soccer game the way a grandmaster reads a chessboard. At times she seems to sense openings almost before they materialize, taking advantage of them to play a short ball to the midfield, to serve a long ball out of the back, or--on not infrequent occasions--to jump into the attack.

"The quicker you can read the play, the more effective you become," says Charge coach Mark Krikorian. "That's an area in which Heather has always been ...

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