AUSTIN, Texas– This previous Saturday night throughout the company’s 41st-annual induction event in Shreveport, La., Texas softball legend Cat Osterman was formally inducted as one of 11 brand-new members of the National Softball Hall of Popularity.
The event honored the achievements, history-making minutes and turning points of the conscripts who assisted form the sport of softball.
Members of the Class of 2022 consisted of: Rusty Bumgardner (Slow Pitch Gamer), Mike De Leo (Meritorious Service), Debbie Doom (Quick Pitch Gamer), Christan Dowling (Slow Pitch Gamer), Jeff Hansen (Umpire), Brett Helmer (Slow Pitch Gamer), George Nokes (Quick Pitch Gamer), Cat Osterman (Quick Pitch Gamer), Jeff Peck (Quick Pitch Gamer), Al Savala (Sponsor) and Steve Shortland (Manager/Coach).
The prominent distinction contributed to what has actually been another special year for the softball standout as Osterman likewise ended up being the very first softball gamer and simply the 3rd total Texas woman student-athlete to have her jersey retired throughout events at Red & & Charline McCombs Field back on April 16.
Throughout an embellished profession on the Forty Acres, Osterman, a three-time U.S.A. Softball National Collegiate Gamer of the Year, four-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-American and two-time ESPY Award winner for Finest Female College Professional athlete installed an incredible profession record of 136-25 with a 0.51 age and 2,265 strikeouts while assisting the Longhorns to 3 Females’s College World Series looks.
Osterman still holds the NCAA record for greatest profession strikeout-per-seven-inning ratio at 14.34, stays the only gamer in NCAA Department I history to lead the country in age on 3 celebrations and handled 20 no-hitters and 7 best video games while at Texas.
Prepared No. 1 total in the 2006 National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) Draft, Osterman went on to remarkable professional success over an eight-year profession with the Rockford Thunder and USSSA Pride. She led the Thunder to the league title in 2009 and recorded 3 more Cowles Cup champions with the Pride in 2010, 2013 and 2014. Osterman was called All-NPF on 6 celebrations and the NPF’s Pitcher of the Year 3 times (2011, 2013, 2014). Throughout the summer/fall of 2020, she likewise won the very first Athletes Unlimited specific professional title by going 13-1 total with 95 strikeouts while signing up 2,408 overall points.
On a global level, Osterman won gold as the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic Softball Group in Athens in 2004 and after that took silver 4 years later on in Beijing. She likewise highlighted a remarkable resurgence from retirement by making a lineup area on the U.S.A. Softball Women’s National Group that protected silver throughout the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
