- Entry type: Concept
- Entry ID: AWE4405
Aussie Spirit Softball
- Official title The Australia Open Women's softball team
- Occupation Olympic sports team, Sports Team
Summary
Aussie Spirit Softball, the nickname for The Australian Open Women’s softball team, is one of Australia’s most successful sporting teams. Since softbal1996, Australia has medalled at all four events with Bronze in Atlanta (1996) Sydney (2000) and Beijing (2008) and Silver in Athens (2004).
Australia won the first ever International Softball Federation’s Women’s World Championship in 1965.
Details
Four Australian players have been inducted to the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame. Members of the Australian bronze medal-winning team from Atlanta, Jenny Holliday and Joyce Lester, were inducted in 2001. Joanne Brown and Kerry Dienelt who both won bronze medals at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics were inducted in 2005.
Events
Published resources
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Resource
- Website for the Australian Open Women's softball team, Softball Australia, 2009, http://www.softball.org.au/default.asp?Page=21993&MenuID=High_Performance/4019/0/
- Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25
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Site Exhibition
- She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html