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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 went undrafted but later played for 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]

Vicky Galindo

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	West Valley
Conference	Coast
Biographical details
Born	(1983-12-22) December 22, 1983 (age 38) Union City, California
Playing career
2002	West Valley
2003–2005	California
2005–2007	Chicago Bandits
2009–2013	Chicago Bandits
Position(s)	Third base, second base
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2006	California (undergrad. asst.)
2007–2009	San Jose State (asst.)
2010–present	West Valley

Medal record
Women's softball
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Team competition

Career

Galindo played for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears from 2003–2005 and was an undergrad assistant in 2006.[11][12] Galindo was on the US national team from 2005-2007. She was also the assistant coach for the San Jose State in 2007. Before her time at Cal, Galindo played for West Valley Junior College for the 2002 season. 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, baseball team. There was an extra jersey and he told her to go play.

Galindo was featured in The Advocate as one of the out athletes taking part in the Beijing Olympics. She said she has had serious relationships with both men and women. When she came out to the team, she said they were unconditionally supportive. Galindo's decision to come out helped teammate Lauren Lappin come out as well.[13] In 2014, she married Eddie Piatt.[14] The couple have two children together.

James Logan High School

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

Statistics

California Golden Bears

YEAR	G	AB	R	H	BA	RBI	HR	3B	2B	TB	SLG	BB	SO	SB	SBA
2003	68	225	39	73	.324	21	1	4	5	89	.395%	15	22	19	23
2004	66	222	53	83	.374	20	7	2	18	126	.567%	19	25	23	32
2005	55	176	49	57	.324	16	4	3	11	86	.488%	9	19	19	23
TOTALS	189	623	141	213	.342	57	12	9	34	301	.483%	43	66	61	78

Team USA Olympic Games

YEAR	G	AB	R	H	BA	RBI	HR	3B	2B	TB	SLG	BB	SO	SB
2008	5	5	1	3	.600	1	0	0	1	4	.800%	0	1	0

College Softball

This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (August 2019)

2002

Freshman Year

• Led West Valley Junior College to the state championship title
• Earned All-American honors
• First team all-league
  • .510 batting average

2003

Sophomore Year

• Named to the All-CWS tournament team
• All-region recognition after hitting .462 (6-13)
• Garnered All-Pacific Region second team honors
  • Second among Bears in hitting, posting a .324 average
• 73 hits were the fifth highest total among Pac-10 players
• Posted 19 regular season multi-hit games

2004

Junior Year

• Member of USA Schutt Elite Team at Canada Cup and Champions Cup
  • Hit .415 (22-53) with 12 runs and a team-high five doubles and 12 RBI
• Led the Cal Bears to the WCWS runner-up
• Second team All-Pac-10
• First team All-American
• First team All Pacific Region

2005

Senior Year

• Led the Cal Bears to the Women's College World Series
• Pac-10 Conference Honors
• First-Team All-American

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

External links

• Vicky Galindo on Twitter
• Vicky Galindo - US National Team bio
• Vicky Galindo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Victoria Galindo at the International Olympic Committee

На других языках

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[de] Vicky Galindo

Vicky Galindo (* 22. Dezember 1983 in Union City, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Softballspielerin.

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- [en] Vicky Galindo

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[it] Victoria Galindo

Victoria Galindo (Union City, 22 dicembre 1983[1]) è una giocatrice di softball statunitense.

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