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USWNT forward Trinity Rodman didn’t get much help from her dad, Dennis, during rise to stardom

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Trinity Rodman grew up without any guidance whatsoever from absent father Dennis Rodman. But the last name always weighed on her. Sometimes that name was good; more often it was bad.

I can’t imagine having Dennis Rodman as my father.

Dennis the Dad just doesn’t compute.

And yet women’s national soccer team star Trinity Rodman is, indeed, Rodman’s daughter, and she has spent her life being molded by that fact.

Born in 2002, two years after Dennis last played in the NBA, Trinity has carved a path for herself as an elite athlete that is not only commendable but also — again, because of her dad’s shadow — inspirational.