Christie Ambrosi

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Christie Ambrosi
Personal information
BornDecember 21, 1976 (1976-12-21) (age 47)
Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
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[edit]

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.

No longer with SVSU[11]

Statistics[edit]

UCLA Bruins[edit]

[12][13][14]

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[edit]

  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 February 26, 2021.
  3. ^ "1999 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Christie Ambrosi". teamusa.org. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  5. ^ "Career Season Records" (PDF). Uclabruins.com. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  6. ^ "UCLA WCWS Stats 1999". Ncaa.org. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  7. ^ "Division I Championships" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  8. ^ "Christie Ambrosi". Svsucardinals.com. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  9. ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Softball". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved October 31, 2008.
  10. ^ "2000 Olympic Games". Teamusa.org. Archived from the original on December 29, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  11. ^ Rounding Third Softball April 24, 2022
  12. ^ "Final 1996 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  13. ^ "Final 1997 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  14. ^ "Final 1999 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved June 21, 2018.

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