It won’t have escaped your notice, then, that the star athlete always wears a pink headband every time she plays a soccer match. It’s the same headband that made an appearance in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, as well as the 2011 and 2015 World Cups.

While the signature accessory has come to be part of Morgan’s USP, it turns out that there’s a very special reason behind the headband too.

According to one report, the Orlando Pride striker has been sporting the headband ever since her college days at at University of California, Berkeley, where she gained a degree in political economy (yep, she’s multi-talented!) It was there that she met her future husband, Servando Carrasco, who now plays as a midfielder for LA Galaxy.

While they were dating in Morgan’s sophomore year in 2006, Carrasco’s mother was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. As a show of support for her mother-in-law, Morgan started to wear a pink headband to raise awareness of the disease.

Alex Morgan wears a pink headband to every soccer match for this very special reason