Mia Oliaro

Mia Katherine Oliaro (born June 27, 2005) is an American college soccer player for the Duke Blue Devils. She has represented the United States at the youth international level.

Early life and college career
Oliaro was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Scott and Jeri Oliaro, and has a younger brother. Her father, the associate director of sports medicine at the University of North Carolina, played college football at Cornell, and her mother played basketball at American. Oliaro began playing soccer at the YMCA at about age three. She also played other sports, such as lacrosse, basketball, and swimming, winning a state championship in swimming at age ten.

Oliaro joined the North Carolina Courage Academy while attending Chapel Hill High School, twice receiving ECNL first-team all-conference honors. After graduation, she played for the North Carolina Courage U23 in the 2023 USL W League season. Oliaro contributed five goals and a team-best six assists as the team went undefeated in the regular season and made it to the national final, where she assisted on an equalizer but lost to Indy Eleven in overtime. She was named the league's Young Player of the Year, first-team Team of the Year, and the South Atlantic Division Player of the Year.

Oliaro played limited minutes as a freshman at North Carolina in the fall of 2023, averaging 20 minutes per game over 20 appearances. She recorded an assist in the season-opening win against California and scored her first college goal to equalize against Arkansas in a 3–1 win on September 3. Following her freshman season, she transferred to state rival Duke.

International career
Oliaro was first called into training camp with the United States national under-17 team in 2021. She played for the team at the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, which they won to qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Oliaro missed the World Cup due to injury. She trained with the combined under-18/under-19 teams in 2023.