American softball player

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. 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. 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.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 James Logan High School
• 3 Statistics
• 4 College Softball
• 5 US National Team
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Career

Galindo played for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears from 2003–2005 and was an undergrad *istant in 2006. Galindo was on the US national team from 2005-2007. She was also the *istant 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. In 2014, she married Eddie Piatt. The couple have two children together.

James Logan High School

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

Statistics

College Softball

2002Freshman Year

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

2003Sop*re 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

2004Junior 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

2005Senior 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