Leah O'Brien-Amico - National Softball Hall of Famer
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 307
Leah O'Brien-Amico is a softball legend. She's a three-time Olympic gold medal winner, a three-time NFCA first-team All-American and a three-time WCWS national champion in college.
Considered one of the top women's softball players of the last 25 years, O'Brien-Amico was inducted into the National Softball Hall of Fame in 2009, the Athletes In Action Hall of Faith in 2008, and the University of Arizona Hall of Fame in 2002.
Currently, she travels the country teaching, speaking and sometimes preaching, sharing her story of faith, hope, love and softball. She's also a broadcaster, doing work for ESPN and Westwood One in their coverage of college softball.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to O'Brien-Amico about her storied softball career, playing in the Olympics, her powerful testimony of faith, and what it was like playing with fellow legends Lisa Fernandez and Jennie Finch.
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| 1:19.7 | Today on the podcast, we welcome one of the greatest women's softball players of the past 25 years. |
| 1:26.0 | Leah O'Brien Amico joins us here on the podcast. She is a USA |
| 1:31.3 | softball hall of famer, three-time Olympic gold medal winning softball player and a three-time |
| 1:38.0 | national champion in college with Arizona and the Wildcats there in Tucson. |
| 1:45.4 | She's also a mom to three boys and was inducted into the Arizona Hall fame in 2002 |
| 1:50.6 | in a three-time NFCA first team, All-American, currently doing analyst work for ESPN as well as |
| 1:58.6 | Westwood One as the Women's college world series gets underway here this |
| 2:02.7 | weekend. Lots of great things happening in softball. And it's the perfect time to talk to Leah O'Brien |
| 2:08.6 | Amico here on the podcast. Loved having this conversation with her, by the way. We talk about |
| 2:13.4 | the state of softball, the return of softball to the Olympics in 2020 in her journey, |
| 2:19.5 | not just her journey of softball, which is a pretty awesome one and her experience playing |
| 2:24.2 | in three Olympics, but her journey of faith, which is a pretty powerful story that she |
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