Cat Osterman

Cat Osterman is the kind of athlete I genuinely revere. Winning back-to-back ESPY awards as the nation's top college player and the Honda Sports Award at Texas was only the prologue to a career that produced Olympic gold in 2004 and silver in both 2008 and 2020. That she anchored the U.S. mound across so many years speaks to a durability and standard few ever reach. What lands hardest for me is what came after: she stayed in the game as a coach and general manager rather than walking away. That lifelong devotion to giving back to her sport is exactly the quality I find most worth honoring.

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Name (English)

Cat Osterman

Name (Japanese)

キャット・オスターマン

Reading

きゃっと・おすたーまん

Born

April 16, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Occupation

softball player / coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

High school

Cypress Springs High School

University

University of Texas at Austin

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award
• 2006 Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award
• 2006 Honda Sports Award for Softball

• Official sitehttps://www.catosterman.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/catosterman/
• Xhttps://x.com/catosterman
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%20Osterman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2941581

Tags

• Texas
• softball player
• coach

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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