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Sam Mewis showcases what she brings to USWNT in win over Colombia

If Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe represent the legacy of the women’s national team and new citizen Catarina Macario represents the future, midfielder Sam Mewis is the present.

And the reigning U.S. Soccer player of the year was very much in the moment Monday, scoring her first international hat trick in a one-sided 4-0 rout of Colombia, played before a sparse crowd at Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Fla.,

“Every goal was a team goal really,” Mewis said.

Speaking of team goals, the biggest one for the top-ranked U.