Cat Osterman
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"Catherine Leigh "Cat" Osterman", is an United States/American, former collegiate 4-time All-American, left-handed softball pitcher originally from Houston, Texas. She completed her college eligibility in 2006 at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a starting pitcher for the Texas Longhorn Athletics/Longhorns since 2002. Osterman pitched on the USA Women's Softball Team which won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Osterman held the NCAA Softball Championship/NCAA Division I career strikeout record and is still the NCAA all-time leader for strikeouts per 7-innings, 14.34, Walks plus hits per inning pitched/WHIP and perfect games (7). She owns numerous career records for the Longhorns and within the NCAA Division I, where she is also one of five pitchers to strikeout 1,000 batters with 100 Win (baseball)/wins, an Earned run average/ERA of under 1.00, and averaging double digit strikeouts.

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I think that's my No. 1 goal.

I knew of this award, but in my mind I never thought I'd get it.

A national championship. That's it.

It's fun. It's fun to be able to come out and see the kids smile and see them get excited.

It's pretty hot and humid out here but we all fought through. Our defense made great plays and I feel like I pitched pretty well. I was really trying to make the ball move and force groundouts and pop outs.

It was hard once it got closer, and we tried to not think about it. But I knew it was coming, and I'm glad I got it.

When I came back to reality I called my dad and said, 'You won't believe it. We're going to New York.'

Since I'm still in college, it's kind of hard to be able to do clinics. I can only work with so many [kids] at home over and over and over again, so when [I] get to come out and see new faces and spread the sport out, it's a lot of fun.

I got this random CD in the mail -- some guy wrote a song about me.