Christie Ambrosi | |
Birth Place: | Overland Park, Kansas, U.S. |
Height: | 5 ft 8 in |
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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]
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]
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 |