| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Mexico |
| Born | March 3, 1995 Shawnee, Kansas |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Softball |
| College team | Cal Poly Mustangs |
| League | Women's Professional Fastpitch |
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Sierra Hyland (born March 3, 1995) is a professional softball pitcher for the Smash It Sports Vipers of the Women's Professional Fastpitch (WPF). She represented Mexico at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and helped them place fourth. [1] [2] [3]
Hyland was born in Merriam, Kansas and grew up in Visalia, California. She played softball at El Diamante High School. [4] [5] [6]
She graduated from Cal Poly. [7] [8] As a Mustang, Hyland broke the all-time career Big West Conference strikeouts record [9] (finishing with 965) and tossed three perfect games (on March 29, 2014; February 11, 2017; and May 22, 2017 in the NISC).
She also played for the Cleveland Comets after being drafted fourth overall in 2017. [10] [11] As a rookie with Chicago, Hyland compiled a 3.57 ERA in 15.2 innings. [12]
At the 2021 Olympics, Hyland pitched 1.2 innings across two games, holding opposing batters to a .167 average.
Karin Kiefer Smith is a retired female javelin thrower from the United States. She was born in Germany. She is a three-time Olympian. Smith qualified for a fourth, the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. She did, however, receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.
The Robert A. Mott Athletics Center is a 3,032-seat, indoor multi-purpose arena on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.
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