Christie Ambrosi

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Christie Ambrosi
Personal information
BornDecember 21, 1976 (1976-12-21) (age 45)
Overland Park, Kansas
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Medal record
Women's softball
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Softball

Christie Ambrosi (born December 21, 1976)[1] is an American, former collegiate All-American, gold-medal winning Olympian, right-handed softball player and current Head Coach, originally from Overland Park, Kansas.[2][3] She attended high school at Blue Valley Northwest High School.[4] Ambrosi was a shortstop and outfielder for the UCLA Bruins in the now-named Pac-12 Conference from 1996-97, 99, winning a national title in her final year and was named All-Tournament.[5][6][7] She later helped Team USA to a gold medal in the Sydney Olympics. Ambrosi held several coaching positions and is now head of the SVSU Cardinals softball team.[8]

Career[]

She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she received a gold medal as a member of the American winning team.[9] Ambrosi contributed a hit and RBI at the games.[10]

Christie attended UCLA,[4] where she was All-American all four years, and won the division 1 National Championship. She has a gold medal from the 2000 Olympic Games, and the Pan-American Games.

Christie recently played in the Celebrity All-Star slow pitch game hosted at Community America Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Statistics[]

UCLA Bruins[]

[11][12][13]

YEAR G AB R H BA RBI HR 3B 2B TB SLG BB SO SB SBA
1996 58 178 35 55 .309 35 1 0 6 64 .359% 18 11 3 3
1997 58 204 43 70 .343 22 0 6 10 92 .451% 13 7 5 6
1999 68 240 65 103 .429 48 10 4 14 155 .646% 19 14 25 28
TOTALS 184 622 143 228 .366 105 11 10 30 311 .500% 50 32 33 37

References[]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Christie Ambrosi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  2. ^ "1997 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  3. ^ "1999 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  4. ^ a b "Christie Ambrosi". teamusa.org. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Career Season Records" (PDF). Uclabruins.com. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  6. ^ "UCLA WCWS Stats 1999". Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  7. ^ "Division I Championships" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  8. ^ "Christie Ambrosi". Svsucardinals.com. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  9. ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Softball". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  10. ^ "2000 Olympic Games". Teamusa.org. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
  11. ^ "Final 1996 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  12. ^ "Final 1997 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  13. ^ "Final 1999 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2018-06-21.

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