2026年4月24日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:04 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
丹佛—— 上月在英里高体育场的主场首秀中，国家女子足球联赛（NWSL）全新成立的丹佛巅峰FC女足队未能取得进球。但对于到场的一名女孩来说，这场比赛却是一场巨大的胜利，因为她找到了自己的榜样。
“我长大后想成为一名职业足球运动员，”9岁的海登·斯泰恩在与巅峰队球星卡森·皮克特见面后对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说道，“而她做到了。这真的让我充满希望，相信我也能做到。”
斯泰恩生来就没有大部分右臂。所以当她到场观赛并看到皮克特——一个和她有着相似经历的球员时，海登说她在对方身上看到了自己的影子。
“榜样能让你觉得自己可以做到任何事——就像他们一样，”海登说道。
自那次见面以来，海登的“自信心飙升”，她的母亲克里斯蒂娜·海登透露。
“在学校里，在足球场上，她的自信都爆棚了，”克里斯蒂娜说道。
这家人表示，与皮克特的会面真正改变了他们的生活。然而，皮克特却说这次会面差点就没能发生。
“我不想被人称作‘独臂足球女孩’，”皮克特对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说道，“我只是想被人看作‘踢足球的女孩’。”
皮克特说，多年来她一直刻意在照片中隐藏自己的手臂，甚至避免谈及自己的肢体差异。直到有一天，她的母亲告诉她，她正在错过一个机会和一种使命。
皮克特后来在社交媒体上写道：“我渐渐明白，这段旅程更多的不是关于我自己，而是关于我沿途能够触动的那些心灵。”
如今，皮克特表示她采取了“完全相反”的态度。
“我想结识所有的孩子、所有的家庭、所有的成年人，”皮克特说道，“我想结识每一个我能遇到的人。”
事实上，皮克特如今已经完全担当起了榜样的角色，本周她特意来到海登的足球队训练课上给了她一个惊喜。
皮克特计划与海登保持联系，或许还能帮助海登找到自己的人生目标，因为说到榜样，需要有人先成为榜样才能影响他人。
当被问及未来某天自己是否也想成为榜样时，海登说道：“是的，我愿意。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-girl-born-without-most-arm-inspired-denver-soccer-player/
How a 9-year-old girl found a confidence-changing role model in Denver soccer star Carson Pickett: “It fills me with hope”
April 24, 2026 / 9:04 PM EDT / CBS News
Denver— In their home opener last month at Mile High Stadium, the brand-new Denver Summit FC women’s soccer team of the NWSL went scoreless. But for one girl in attendance, it was a huge win, because she found a role model.
“I want to be a professional soccer player when I grow up,” Hayden Stine, 9, told CBS News of meeting Summit star Carson Pickett. “And she was able to do that. And it really fills me with hope that I’m able to as well.”
Stine was born without most of her right arm. So when she went to that game and saw Pickett, a player just like her, Hayden said she saw something in herself.
“Role models make you feel like you can do anything – just like them,” Hayden said.
Since that meeting, Hayden’s “confidence has skyrocketed” her mother, Christina Hayden, disclosed.
“At school, on the soccer field, it’s through the roof,” Christina said.
The family said meeting Pickett was truly life-altering. And yet, Pickett says the meeting almost never happened.
“I didn’t want to be known as the girl with one arm that plays soccer,” Pickett told CBS News. “I just wanted to be known for the girl that plays soccer.”
For years, Pickett says she hid her arm in pictures and avoided even talking about her limb difference. That was until one day, when she says her mother told her she was missing an opportunity, and a purpose.
Pickett later wrote on social media, “Finding out that the journey is a lot less about myself and a lot more about the hearts I can touch along the way.”
Now, Pickett says she’s taken the “complete opposite” approach.
“I want to meet all the kids, all the families, all the adults,” Pickett said. “I want to meet everyone that I can.”
In fact, Pickett has now so embraced the role of role model, that this week she surprised Hayden at her team’s soccer practice.
Pickett plans to stay in touch, and maybe help Hayden find her purpose too, because when it comes to role models, it takes one to be one.
On being a role model herself one day, Hayden says: “Yes, I am up for it.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-girl-born-without-most-arm-inspired-denver-soccer-player/