Vicky Galindo

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Vicky Galindo
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Current position
TitleHead coach
Team West Valley
Conference Coast
Biographical details
Born (1983-12-22) December 22, 1983 (age 41)
Union City, California, U.S.
Playing career
2002 West Valley
2003–2005 California
2005–2007 Chicago Bandits
2009–2013Chicago Bandits
Position(s)Third base, second base
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2006California (undergrad. asst.)
2007–2009 San Jose State (asst.)
2010–presentWest Valley
Medal record
Women's softball
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Beijing Team competition

Victoria Noel Galindo-Piatt (born December 22, 1983), commonly known as Vicky Galindo, is an American, former collegiate All-American, medal-winning Olympian, three-time professional All-Star, softball player and current head coach at West Valley College. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] An infielder at second and third, Galindo played college softball at West Valley and later for California in the Pac-12 Conference, helping them to back-to-back national runner-up finishes at the 2003 and 2004 Women's College World Series. [6] [7] [8] She was drafted to the Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) winning two championships. She also played for the United States women's national softball team, winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [9] [10] [11]

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Career

Galindo played for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears from 2003–2005 and for West Valley Junior College for the 2002 season. She was an undergrad assistant at Cal in 2006. [12] [13] Galindo was on the US national team from 2005-2007. She was also the assistant coach for the San Jose State in 2007. In 2009 she took the head coaching position at West Valley College and became an associate faculty member. She was hired full time in 2014, and teaches in the Kinesiology Department as the lead Pilates certificate instructor. She went to high school at James Logan High School in Union City, California where she graduated in 2001. Galindo started playing at age 4 when her dad coached her brother's baseball team. There was an extra jersey and he told her to go play.

She was inducted to the Cal Hall of Fame in 2015, and her Jersey was retired in 2013 from the NPF Chicago Bandits.

Personal life

In 2014, she married Eddie Piatt. [14] The couple have three children together.

James Logan High School

Vicky was the 2001 Best All Around Female Athlete her senior year.

She was inducted into the James Logan Hall of Fame in 2009, and her softball jersey was retired in 2012.

Statistics

California Golden Bears
YEAR G AB R H BA RBI HR 3B 2B TB SLG BB SO SB SBA
2003682253973.3242114589.395%15221923
2004662225383.374207218126.567%19252332
2005551764957.32416431186.488%9191923
TOTALS189623141213.3425712934301.483%43666178
Team USA Olympic Games
YEAR G AB R H BA RBI HR 3B 2B TB SLG BB SO SB
20085513.60010014.800%010

College Softball

2002
Freshman Year
2003
Sophomore Year
2004
Junior Year
2005
Senior Year

US National Team

Note: she batted .467 (7-15) for Team USA in the 2007 World Cup where she has played in all but one game. She appeared as a pinch runner for Crystl Bustos in the game she did not start.

References

  1. ↑ "2004 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  2. ↑ "2005 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  3. ↑ "2012 AWARD WINNERS" (PDF). Profastpitch.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  4. ↑ "2013 AWARD WINNERS" (PDF). Profastpitch.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Vicky Piatt". Westvalley.edu. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  6. ↑ "2020 Golden Bears California Record Book" (PDF). Calbears.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  7. ↑ "California WCWS Stats". Ncaa.org. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  8. ↑ "California WCWS Stats". Ncaa.org. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  9. ↑ "2008 Olympic Games". Teamusa.org. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Victoria Galindo". Teamusa.org. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  11. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vicky Galindo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Vicky Galindo". Cal Bears. Archived from the original on April 1, 2005. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  13. ↑ "California Golden Bears - Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on July 18, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2007.
  14. ↑ @VickyGalindo19 (June 12, 2014). "@Athletics @CSNAthletics me and my new husband Eddie Piatt on nerd power night #csncafanphoto" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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