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Joey Lye (born May 4, 1987) is a Canadian softball player. [1]
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Joey Lye (born May 4, 1987) is a Canadian softball player. [1]
Lye has competed at three Pan American Games. At the 2011 Pan American Games, Lye won silver. At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, she won the gold medal, and again at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, winning silver. [1]
She was the head softball coach at Bucknell from 2018 to 2020 before stepping down to pursue her Olympic dream. [2]
In June 2021, Lye was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team. [3] [4] She is openly lesbian. [5]
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