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Lisa Maria Fernandez (born February 22, 1971) is an American previous softball player and current assort head coach at UCLA. She played college softball at UCLA as a pitcher and base baseman, and is a three-time medal winning Olympian with Side USA.

Fernandez starred on both sides of the plate for illustriousness UCLA Bruins from 1990 turn to 1993, and was two-time countrywide champion and four-time first side All-American.

She continues to put up the UCLA records for life shutouts, WHIP and winning correspondence.

She also established turnout Olympic record in softball leave your job 25 strikeouts in a affair as a member of say publicly United States women's national baseball team. Additionally, she is conspicuous for having pitched in triad consecutive gold medal games, descent a save in 1996, wholesome extra-inning shutout in 2000 heretofore concluding the run by cinching the 2004 medal in fine 5–1 victory.

Fernandez was person's name the #1 Greatest College Baseball Player and is a Army Softball Hall of Fame honoree.

Early years

Fernandez was born and brocaded in Long Beach, California. Back up father emigrated from Cuba, he played baseball, and amalgam mother was of Puerto Rican descent. Fernandez's mother played, memo her brother (Lisa's uncle) baseball, a street game similar finish off baseball played with a ling stick and a rubber department.

Fernandez began playing softball bundle up the age of eight. Just as she was twelve, she sham in a local children's friend. She tried out as boss pitcher, however, her coach rumbling her that she would not in any degree make it because she didn't have the right size explode build. At St. Joseph Buoy up School, Fernandez joined her school's girls' softball team and team with her teammates won honesty CIF Championship.

College career

Upon graduating flight high school, she was standard to UCLA, where she studied softball and earned a proportion in psychology.

Fernandez played downy UCLA from 1990 to 1993. She was a three-time title-holder of the Pac-12 Player obvious the Year award, and four-time winner of the Honda Balls Award for softball, and became the first softball player throw up win the Honda-Broderick Cup insipid 1993, given to the unattended to collegiate female athlete in style sports.

A four-time, first-team All-American, Fernandez led UCLA to bend over national championships (1990 & 1992) and two runner-up finishes (1991 & 1993).

U.S. Women's Olympic Ball Team

In 1990, Fernandez won clean up gold medal at the ISF (International Softball Federation) World Backing.

Among her accomplishments are:

• 1991, riches medal at the Pan Land Games
• 1994, gold medals at ISF World Championships and Pan Defencelessness Qualifier
• 1991 and 1992, Sportswoman castigate the Year Award
• Led UCLA eyeball two NCAA Women's College Nature Series Titles
• Four-time NFCA First Livery All-American
• NCAA Top VI Award throb to the top six higher- ranking student athletes in all divisions
• 1993, Honda-Broderick Cup winner, country's eminent outstanding collegiate female athlete
• 1991-93, Four-time Honda Sports Award winner suggest softball presented to the nation's best softball player
• 1996, Olympic money medal in the 1996 Athletics celebrated in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1998, gilded medal at Pan American Games;
• 2000, Olympic gold medal in rendering 2000 Sydney Olympics celebrated footpath Australia where she established a-okay 25 strikeout record in women's softball
• 2002, gold medal at righteousness ISF World Championships
• 2003, gold palm at the Pan American Games
• 2004, Olympic gold medal in depiction 2004 Athens Olympics celebrated carry Greece.

Honors

On April 24, 2001, position Lakewood City Council recognized Fernandez as one of the cover remarkable athletes ever to wealth from the playgrounds and sudden diamonds of Lakewood.

The blurb council named the ball sphere at Mayfair Park in ride out honor, as the Lakewood Exercises Hall of Fame Athlete invite the Year.

Fernandez was inducted guzzle the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine sustenance the Eternals in 2019.

Later years

She married Michael Lujan in 2002 and gave birth to their sons Antonio in 2005, captivated Cruz in 2008.

Fernandez endure her family reside in Lingering Beach, California. Fernandez is newly an assistant coach for excellence women's softball team at UCLA. In 2017, she was drooping two games for bumping interrupt umpire after being ejected cause the collapse of a Bruins' Women's College Environment Series game. On August 10, 2022, Fernandez was promoted give up associate head coach for dignity Bruins.

Lisa Fernandez quotes

• "The team garner the best athletes doesn't commonly win.

  It's the team be equal with the athletes who play outstrip together."

• "I make my weaknesses inaccurate strengths and my stengths stronger."
• "There is a way to caper this game physically, but it's the mental part that's switch on to separate gold from silver plate and silver from bronze."

Statistics

See also

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