http://www.catosterman.com/news.html Read the latest newspaper and magazine articles about Cat Osterman. en-us Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Copyright (C) Cat Osterman http://www.catosterman.com/images/catosterman_120x60.gif http://www.catosterman.com/news.html Three U.S. Olympic medalist softball players will be conducting a clinic today and Sunday at the YMCA Firley Center in Jefferson City. http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2010/01/23/sports/nt342sports91olympians10.txt http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2010/01/23/sports/nt342sports91olympians10.txt The Tennessee Diamonds Pro Fastpitch Softball Team announced its 2010 schedule today. The team also announced it will play its first season at the Alcoa High School baseball and softball complex. http://www.prlog.org/10495502-tennessee-diamonds-softball-team-announce-2010-schedule-will-play-first-season-at-alcoa-high-school.html http://www.prlog.org/10495502-tennessee-diamonds-softball-team-announce-2010-schedule-will-play-first-season-at-alcoa-high-school.html DePaul assistant softball coach Cat Osterman has been selected for the 2010 USA Softball Women's National Team while former Blue Demon third baseman Amber Patton was chosen as an alternate for the team. http://www.depaulbluedemons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15600&ATCLID=204867830 http://www.depaulbluedemons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15600&ATCLID=204867830 Pitcher Cat Osterman will be one of the players coming to Blount County along with the Tennessee Diamonds franchise. http://www.blounttoday.com/news/2010/jan/07/year-cat/ http://www.blounttoday.com/news/2010/jan/07/year-cat/ The National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) League announced today that a new professional women’s softball team, the Tennessee Diamonds, has been franchised and will begin play in 2010 in Blount County, Tennessee. http://www.prlog.org/10475642-tennessee-diamonds-national-pro-fastpitch-softball-team-announced-will-play-2010-season.html http://www.prlog.org/10475642-tennessee-diamonds-national-pro-fastpitch-softball-team-announced-will-play-2010-season.html Cat Osterman was an All-American in high school and at the University of Texas before winning a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/softball/news/story?id=4674822 http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/softball/news/story?id=4674822 SI asked a group of writers and editors to come up with the best of the best. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/2000s/12/19/top.female.athletes/index.html http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/2000s/12/19/top.female.athletes/index.html Taking the mound as a 17-year-old for the Katy (Texas) Cruisers, Cat Osterman gave up no runs and one hit and struck out 11 in five innings in an exhibition game against Team USA. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/2000s/12/17/preps.stories/ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/2000s/12/17/preps.stories/ It was obvious that our ESPN RISE Player of the Decade would be a force to be reckoned with after she took Team USA into extra-innings as just a senior in high school. http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/softball/news/story?id=4674815 http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/softball/news/story?id=4674815 It didn’t matter that Cat Osterman was tired physically. When the Rockford Thunder were in the final innings of the NPF Championship game, she found strength in other areas. http://www.rrstar.com/sports/x772314133/Thunder-capture-NPF-championship http://www.rrstar.com/sports/x772314133/Thunder-capture-NPF-championship The Rockford Thunder captured their first Cowles Cup at Firestone Stadium on Sunday afternoon crowning them the 2009 NPF champions as they defeated the USSSA Pride 2-0 in the final game of the season. http://www.wifr.com/sports/headlines/54401247.html http://www.wifr.com/sports/headlines/54401247.html The Rockford Thunder will face the league’s leading hitter in every game of the best-of-three series against Akron this weekend. The only thing Rockford can do in return is throw Cat Osterman as much as possible. http://www.rrstar.com/sports/x1373192731/Thunder-playoff-hopes-rest-with-Osterman http://www.rrstar.com/sports/x1373192731/Thunder-playoff-hopes-rest-with-Osterman Cat Osterman is having a hard time with this. Her sport, softball, has been voted out of the Olympics, again. Somebody is going to have to express some righteous indignation, and she is merely the 6-foot-2 lefty pitcher to do it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/sports/16vecsey.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/sports/16vecsey.html USA, foreign players present hypothetical cases to IOC. http://www.newsok.com/making-their-cases/article/3385567 http://www.newsok.com/making-their-cases/article/3385567 Female boxers were pleased, as were golfers and rugby players. But athletes in other sports with Olympic aspirations — including baseball, softball and karate — were left feeling snubbed Thursday when Olympic officials made some decisions on what games would be played at the Games. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/sports/14sports.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/sports/14sports.html?_r=1 Cat Osterman took a no-hitter into the seventh inning as the Rockford Thunder beat the league-leading Chicago Bandits 2-0 tonight in front of 1,181 at Judson University. http://www.rrstar.com/sports/x1373183563/Osterman-fans-13-as-Thunder-blank-Bandits http://www.rrstar.com/sports/x1373183563/Osterman-fans-13-as-Thunder-blank-Bandits Cat Osterman pitched out of trouble just in time to make Team USA a champion again. http://newsok.com/americans-cup-runneth-over/article/3386814 http://newsok.com/americans-cup-runneth-over/article/3386814 Americans edge Aussies 3-1 in World Softball final. http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/2009/07/21/0721softball.html http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/2009/07/21/0721softball.html Former Texas pitcher strikes out 13, allows four hits in USA victory. http://www.newsok.com/cat-osterman-pitches-usa-past-japan-into-championship-game/article/3386475 http://www.newsok.com/cat-osterman-pitches-usa-past-japan-into-championship-game/article/3386475 USA, foreign players present hypothetical cases to IOC. http://www.newsok.com/making-their-cases/article/3385567 http://www.newsok.com/making-their-cases/article/3385567 Michele Smith, USA players working hard to get vote to swing game's way. http://www.newsok.com/softball-players-make-their-pitch-to-get-sport-back-in-olympics/article/3385559 http://www.newsok.com/softball-players-make-their-pitch-to-get-sport-back-in-olympics/article/3385559 Today, about 150 to 200 Bellevue leaders plan to celebrate the groundbreaking for the $7.5 million Cat Osterman Champions Village. http://www.omaha.com/article/20090619/NEWS01/706199894 http://www.omaha.com/article/20090619/NEWS01/706199894 For possibly the first time since it began competing at the international level, the U.S. softball team finds itself in an unfamiliar and unsettling position: No. 2. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/13/1s13usasoft22532-no-2-rank-still-eating-us-softbal/ http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/13/1s13usasoft22532-no-2-rank-still-eating-us-softbal/ If anyone can bring exposure to the National Pro Fastpitch league, it’s Cat Osterman. http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/sports/other/453131 http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/sports/other/453131 Former Texas star Cat Osterman, a two-time Olympian and perhaps the best left-handed pitcher in the world, is in her second season as the Blue Demons' pitching coach. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/may/15/depaul-carries-one-tough-cat-osterman/?sports http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/may/15/depaul-carries-one-tough-cat-osterman/?sports Bellevue has announced plans to build a six-field softball complex named after Olympic medalist Cat Osterman. http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=10234154 http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=10234154 Three-time National Softball Player of the Year Cat Osterman speaks to UT student-athletes about education. http://www.texassports.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/042109aaa.html http://www.texassports.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/042109aaa.html Texas Softball, Red McCombs and artist Jim McKinnis will present a specially-commissioned painting to Cat Osterman on Saturday, Feb. 7. http://www.texassports.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/020609ady.html http://www.texassports.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/020609ady.html The third annual Mohegan Sun World Softball Coaches Convention, sponsored by Gold Orluck and Partners, and Americas Game, had a tremendous successful turnout of coaches, players and fans from throughout the nation. http://www.theresident.com/2009/02/legends-attend-softball-convention/ http://www.theresident.com/2009/02/legends-attend-softball-convention/ On Thursday at the Berry Center, Osterman was honored as Cypress Springs retired her No. 20 high school jersey in a ceremony minutes before the Cypress Springs-Langham Creek football game. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/6074710.html http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/6074710.html