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Interview: Cat Osterman, Legendary Softball Pitcher

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Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5729 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Lindsay Gibbs interviews Cat Osterman, 3x Olympian and legendary softball pitcher with many many championships under her belt. They discuss Cat's recent retirement announcement from Athletes Unlimited, Tokyo 2021 Olympics, college softball's rising popularity and her hopes for a sustainable professional softball league. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, flame throwers. Today,

0:13.0

I am so excited today to be joined by the legendary pitcher Kat Osterman, who as you're listening to this has finished her

0:24.2

illustrious career. We think we'll be getting into it. We'll see if this is if we might be

0:29.3

seeing her back at one point. Kat's a three-time Olympian. I'm going to have to offline list all

0:36.1

her accomplishments because it would take too long in this interview.

0:38.9

But he's just finished up with athletes unlimited.

0:42.9

And we're just so excited to be talking with her.

0:45.9

Kat, thank you so much for being on Burn It All Down.

0:48.5

Oh, thank you for having me.

0:50.4

So obviously we're talking before your final weekend of play. This will publish after. So I just want to ask, what are the emotions kind of going into this weekend? And what are you focused on most?

1:04.7

You know, right now I'm just, I'm focused on really just enjoying the moments with my teammates, just the game in general. It's a really

1:12.8

unique situation to be here with 59 other elite sophomore players who share a passion for the

1:18.9

game. And so I'm super stoked to, you know, just be here in this environment and obviously

1:25.0

ending my career in such an amazing place with great people, but

1:29.0

really just going to take it moment by moment and obviously try to stay present and hopefully

1:34.1

do the best to make the team successful this weekend. And then after that, head on home and

1:40.7

turn the next page. I love that. You know, we talked about Athletes Unlimited on the show

1:46.1

and the softball career, but what is Athletes Unlimited in this opportunity late in your career? You've

1:51.8

been such an integral part of these first two seasons of the softball in Athletes Unlimited.

1:59.7

And what is it meant to you to be able to kind of end your career this way,

2:02.6

a way that didn't even exist a couple of years ago?

2:05.5

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of you have to chalk it up to fate.

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