The memories of Beth’s former coaches, including Phil Neville, supplemented Beth’s and made for the most complete story we could tell. On 31 May 2023, Mead was left out of the England team for the Women's World Cup due to suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury that had already kept her out of action for six months. On November 11, 2022, Mead reached her 50th appearance milestone for England, and she scored a total of 29 goals in various competitions, surpassing all her teammates by 12 goals. Another World Cup qualifier on 8 April 2022 saw Mead score four goals in a 10–0 demolishing of North Macedonia.

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Arseblog Exclusive- Interview with Arsenal Women Striker Beth Mead | Arseblog News – the Arsenal news site" . She was a member of the England U19 team that earned a silver medal at the 2013 UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship.The following week, she scored twice in a 4–1 win at Bristol, sending Sunderland to the top of the WSL. Her goals took her to 14 in the season for England, surpassing Jimmy Greaves' long-standing record of the most goals scored in a single season by an England player of either gender, when he scored 13 in the 1960–61 season. During her time playing for Middlesbrough academy, her mother picked up a second job to help cover the cost of petrol required for the twice-a-week 45-minute drive. Mead opened the tournament with a goal against Austria and scored her fourth career international hat-trick against Norway, where she was named the Player of the Match. On 24 January 2017, it was announced that Arsenal had signed Mead on an undisclosed-length full-time deal.

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In October 2022, after her successful UEFA Women's Euro 2022 campaign, Mead revealed it was her mother's terminal ovarian cancer diagnosis in summer 2021 that fueled the best season in her career so far. In February 2022 she launched the Beth Mead Scholarship with Teesside University to support students who have the potential to reach a professional level in women's football. In September 2022, Mead became McDonald's Fun Football ambassador, which aims to give every child, from every background, gender and ability, the opportunity to enjoy football for free.On 23 October 2021, Mead scored her first international hat-trick in a 4–0 win against Northern Ireland in the 2023 World Cup qualification phase. In the match, Mead assisted Lucy Bronze's goal in the 57th minute as England won again by three goals to none. During the league opener against defending champions Chelsea, she scored a brace to defeat Chelsea 3–2. In her first season playing in the FA Women’s Premier League (WPL) in 2011-2012, Beth Mead scored 23 goals in 23 games and helped Sunderland win the league and the FA Women’s Premier League Cup.

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Her Sunday Times bestseller [9] autobiography, Lioness: My Journey to Glory, was published in November 2022. Earlier that week, Mead avoided injury despite rolling her car three times while trying to avoid a deer. The campaign aims to increase participation levels among 13–17 year-old girls by shifting perceptions of women's football. It became a Sunday Times bestseller, [9] eventually going on to win the Sunday Times award for autobiography of the year in May 2023. In addition, scholars also receive one-to-one and group mentoring with Mead during their studies, as well as branded sports kits and gym membership.Despite facing discrimination from other players and parents when playing for California Boys FC, Mead’s father encouraged her to let her football skills speak for themselves, an interesting fact regarding Beth Mead’s family. In her first match at the top level, Mead scored in Sunderland's shock 2–1 win over reigning champions Liverpool. In a nation starved of international soccer success, the performance of Beth Mead and her teammates thrilled the country. They had previously not lost by more than a single goal in the Champions League since 2009 and this was only their second defeat in 83 home games.