American softball player
Christie Ambrosi
Born December 21, 1976 (1976-12-21 ) (age 48)Overland Park, Kansas , U.S. Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
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.
No longer with SVSU[ 11]
Statistics
[ 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
^ 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 .
^ "1997 NSCA Division I All-America Teams" . Nfca.org. Retrieved February 26, 2021 .
^ "1999 NSCA Division I All-America Teams" . Nfca.org. Retrieved February 26, 2021 .
^ a b "Christie Ambrosi" . teamusa.org . Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
^ "Career Season Records" (PDF) . Uclabruins.com. Retrieved February 26, 2021 .
^ "UCLA WCWS Stats 1999" . Ncaa.org. Retrieved February 26, 2021 .
^ "Division I Championships" (PDF) . Ncaa.org. Retrieved February 26, 2021 .
^ "Christie Ambrosi" . Svsucardinals.com. Retrieved February 26, 2021 .
^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Softball" . databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved October 31, 2008 .
^ "2000 Olympic Games" . Teamusa.org. Archived from the original on December 29, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2021 .
^ Rounding Third Softball April 24, 2022
^ "Final 1996 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF) . Ncaa.org . Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
^ "Final 1997 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF) . Ncaa.org . Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
^ "Final 1999 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF) . Ncaa.org . Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
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