{{Short description|American softball player}} {{use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Amanda Freed | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|12|26}} | birth_place = Fountain Valley, California, U.S. | player_years1 = 1999–2002 | player_team1 = UCLA | player_years2 = 2005–2007 | player_team2 = Texas/Rockford Thunder | player_years3 = 2008 | player_team3 = Chicago Bandits | player_years4 = 2008 | player_team4 = Denso | player_positions = Pitcher | coach_years1 = 2008 | coach_team1 = Virginia | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's softball}} {{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalGold| 2004 Athens|Team competition}} | awards = * 2× first-team NFCA All-American (1999, 2002) * 4× first-team All-Pac-10 (1999–2002) | championships = * Cowles Cup (2008) }}
'''Amanda Louise Freed''' (born December 26, 1979) is an American, former professional softball utility player and pitcher.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nfca.org/awards/awards-history/1999-di-all-american-teams-4388 |title=1999 NSCA Division I All-America Teams |website=NFCA.org |date= |access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://nfca.org/awards/awards-history/2001-di-all-american-teams-4334 |title=2001 NSCA Division I All-America Teams |website=NFCA.org |date= |access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://nfca.org/awards/awards-history/2002-di-all-american-teams-4313 |title=2002 NSCA Division I All-America Teams |website=NFCA.org |date= |access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref> She played college softball for UCLA, winning the national title for the Bruins in the 1999 Women's College World Series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/uclabruins.com/documents/2020/2/6/CareerSeasonRecordsTopPerformances.pdf |title=Career Season Records |website=Uclabruins.com |date= |access-date=2021-02-26 |archive-date=June 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617175536/https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/uclabruins.com/documents/2020/2/6/CareerSeasonRecordsTopPerformances.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/softball_wcws_stats/1999/ucla.htm |title=UCLA WCWS Stats 1999 |website=NCAA.org |date= |access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref> In two other national runner-up finishes, she was also named All-Tournament in all her appearances at the world series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/softball_wcws_rb/2020/01-General.pdf |title=Division I Championships |website=NCAA.org |date= |access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref> She later won a gold medal with Team USA at the 2004 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.teamusa.org/usa-softball/athletes/Amanda-Freed |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712224834/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-softball/athletes/Amanda-Freed |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 12, 2015 |title=Amanda Freed |website=Teamusa.org |access-date=2021-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/amanda-freed-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418072557/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/amanda-freed-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Amanda Freed}}</ref> In 2005, Freed joined the National Pro Fastpitch and played until 2008 for the defunct Rockford Thunder.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://profastpitch.com.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/STATISTICS%20FOLDER/TEAM%20NPF%20ARCHIVES/05%20West%20ALL%20STAR%20Roster.pdf |title=2005 NPF ALL-STAR ROSTER WEST TEAM |website=Profastpitch.com |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043715/http://profastpitch.com.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/STATISTICS%20FOLDER/TEAM%20NPF%20ARCHIVES/05%20West%20ALL%20STAR%20Roster.pdf |access-date=2021-02-26|url-status=usurped |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}</ref> She also served as a coach for Virginia.
==Early life and college career== Born in Fountain Valley, California and raised in nearby Cypress, Freed went to Pacifica High School in Garden Grove. As a pitcher in high school, Amanda won numerous awards, including the Gatorade National Female Athlete of the Year and Gatorade Softball Player of the Year. As a senior in high school, Freed was rank the top pitcher in the world and even threw five perfect games.
As the top softball recruit in 1998, Freed decided to attend UCLA where she played for the UCLA Bruins softball team from 1999 to 2002.<ref name="UCLA">{{cite web|url=http://uclabruins.ocsn.com:80/sports/w-softbl/mtt/freed_amanda00.html|title=Amanda Freed|publisher=UCLA|work=UCLABruins.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021217105130/http://uclabruins.ocsn.com/sports/w-softbl/mtt/freed_amanda00.html|archive-date=2002-12-17|access-date=2018-10-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> To this day (2018) Freed stats at UCLA are impressive. Freed holds records in the top 10 for eight categories of pitching and eight categories of hitting.
==International playing career== Freed played for a number of years as part of the for the United States women's national softball team, winning gold at the Canadian Cup and World Cup in 2002, the team won gold at 2003 Pan American Games, 2004 Summer Olympics, and 2006 World Cup of Softball.<ref name="Pac12">{{Cite web |title=Pac-12 networks On-Air Personalities |url=http://pac-12.com/content/pac-12-networks-air-personalities#amandafreed |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627091050/https://pac-12.com/content/pac-12-networks-air-personalities#amandafreed |archive-date=2018-06-27 |access-date=2018-06-27 |website=pac-12}}</ref> Amanda was also an alternate at the 2000 Olympics, where the team won gold. Making the team in 2004, Freed made four appearances contributing a double and scoring three runs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/Events/2004/August/14/Olympic-Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229114239/http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/Events/2004/August/14/Olympic-Games |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 29, 2015 |title=2004 Olympic Games |website=Teamusa.org |date= |access-date=2021-03-03}}</ref>
==Professional playing career== From 2005 to 2008, Freed played for National Pro Fastpitch, first with the Texas (later Rockford) Thunder from 2005 to 2007 then with the Chicago Bandits Cowles Cup championship team in 2008.<ref name="NPF">{{Cite web |title=Live Stats by 805stats.com |url=http://npf.805stats.com/player.php?id=21019 |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=805stats.com}}</ref>
==Post-playing career== In 2008, Freed was an assistant coach at Virginia under Eileen Schmidt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/091107aaa.html|title= Amanda Freed Named Assistant Softball Coach|publisher=University of Virginia|date=September 11, 2007|access-date=June 26, 2018}}</ref>
In 2009, Freed was a personal trainer for Reese Witherspoon during filming for the movie ''How Do You Know'', in which Witherspoon played a softball player.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2010/12/14/ocs-amanda-freed-gives-reese-witherspoon-game/|title= O.C.'s Amanda Freed gives Reese Witherspoon game |last=Smith|first=Marcia C.|work=Orange County Register|date=December 14, 2010|access-date=June 26, 2018}}</ref>
Freed later became a softball color commentator for FSW, ESPN and Pac-12 Network.<ref name=Pac12 />
==College Statistics== <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WSB/Softball_Women's_Division%20I_1999_110_University%20of%20California,%20Los%20Angeles.pdf |title=Final 1999 Softball Statistics Report |website=Ncaa.org |date= |access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WSB/Softball_Women's_Division%20I_2000_110_University%20of%20California,%20Los%20Angeles.pdf |title=Final 2000 Softball Statistics Report |website=Ncaa.org |date= |access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WSB/Softball_Women's_Division%20I_2001_110_University%20of%20California,%20Los%20Angeles.pdf |title=Final 2001 Softball Statistics Report |website=Ncaa.org |date= |access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careerplayer|title=Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics |website=Ncaa.org |date= |access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- align=center | '''YEAR''' | G | AB | R | H | BA | RBI | HR | 3B | 2B | TB | SLG | BB | SO | SB | SBA |- align=center | '''1999''' | 69 | 227 | 50 | 81 | .357 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 98 | .431% | 12 | 29 | 9 | 10 |- align=center | '''2000''' | 58 | 179 | 35 | 56 | .313 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 83 | .463% | 18 | 30 | 13 | 17 |- align=center | '''2001''' | 59 | 200 | 45 | 63 | .315 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 87 | .467% | 22 | 24 | 16 | 18 |- align=center | '''2002''' | 64 | 210 | 52 | 62 | .295 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 86 | .409% | 20 | 15 | 13 | 13 |- align=center | '''TOTALS''' | '''250''' | '''816''' | '''182''' | '''262''' | '''.321''' | '''98''' | '''7''' | '''11''' | '''50''' | '''354''' | '''.435%''' | '''72''' | '''98''' | '''51''' | '''58''' |}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- | '''YEAR''' | W | L | GP | GS | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP |- | '''1999''' | 27 | 4 | 35 | 32 | 31 | 15 | 3 | 211.2 | 124 | 37 | 29 | 63 | 187 | 0.96 | 0.88 |- | '''2000''' | 28 | 8 | 38 | 32 | 27 | 12 | 0 | 234.2 | 136 | 52 | 42 | 96 | 246 | 1.25 | 0.99 |- | '''2001''' | 21 | 4 | 27 | 25 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 152.0 | 70 | 15 | 10 | 28 | 157 | 0.46 | 0.64 |- | '''2002''' | 21 | 4 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 165.1 | 88 | 31 | 22 | 47 | 170 | 0.93 | 0.82 |- | '''TOTALS''' | '''97''' | '''20''' | '''127''' | '''116''' | '''97''' | '''47''' | '''4''' | '''763.2''' | '''418''' | '''135''' | '''103''' | '''234''' | '''760''' | '''0.94''' | '''0.85''' |}
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061123155645/http://www.usasoftball.com/Women/2006WorldChampionships/Bios/freed.html |date=November 23, 2006 |title=2006 World Cup profile at USA Softball}} * {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505145805/http://www.usasoftball.com/Women/Olympics/2004OlympicGames/Bios/freed.html |date=May 5, 2006 |title=2004 Olympic profile at USA Softball}} * {{Team USA|new_id=amanda-freed-912917|old_id=FR/Amanda-Freed|archive=20220529124435}} * {{Olympics.com profile}} * {{Olympedia}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Freed, Amanda Louise}} Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:American softball players Category:Olympic gold medalists for the United States in softball Category:Olympic softball players for the United States Category:Softball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Softball players from California Category:UCLA Bruins softball players Category:Sportspeople from Fountain Valley, California Category:Sportspeople from Cypress, California Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics