softball Honors

Texas is the only program in the NCAA with three USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year awards.

UT’s Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-Americans

Christa Williams – Olympian

Cat Osterman – Olympian

Catherine Leigh Osterman is an American, former collegiate 4-time All-American and 2-time medal-winning Olympian, unretired 6-time pro All-Star, left-handed softball pitcher, and former softball Assistant Coach originally from Houston, Texas. She completed her college eligibility in 2006 at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a starting pitcher for the Longhorns since 2002. Osterman pitched on the USA Women’s Softball Team, which won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Osterman holds the Big 12 pitching Triple Crown for leading in career wins, ERA, strikeouts, shutouts, no-hitters, WHIP, and perfect games, claiming the NCAA Division I record for strikeout ratio. In the National Pro Fastpitch, Osterman is the career leader in strikeout ratio and no-hitters. She owns numerous other records for the Longhorns and within the NCAA Division I, where she is also one of five pitchers to strike out 1,000 batters with 100 wins, an ERA of under 1.00, and averaging double-digit strikeouts. Osterman is currently a member of Team USA softball and has qualified for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics. In May 2020, she also signed to join a new softball pro league under Athletes Unlimited that will begin play in the fall. Osterman was also named #3 Greatest College Softball Player.

 Texas softball pitcher cat Osterman struck out seven university of Nevada Las Vegas batters to become the NCAA career strikeout record holder. Osterman who passed the previous mark of 1773 strikeouts early in her senior season finish your Longhorn career with 2265 strikeouts. In her Texas career which finished at the 2006 women’s College World Series Osterman one 136 games and struck out 2.04 batters per inning in 1105 2/3 innings pitched.