Spring 2025

NEW PODCAST: Leah O'Brien-Amico, National Softball Hall of Famer

THIS IS EPISODE 307 OF THE SPORTS SPECTRUM PODCAST

Leah O’Brien-Amico is a softball legend. She’s a three-time Olympic gold medal winner, a three-time NFCA first-team All-American and a three-time WCWS national champion in college.

Considered one of the top women’s softball players of the last 25 years, O’Brien-Amico was inducted into the National Softball Hall of Fame in 2009, the Athletes In Action Hall of Faith in 2008, and the University of Arizona Hall of Fame in 2002.

Currently, she travels the country teaching, speaking and sometimes preaching, sharing her story of faith, hope, love and softball. She’s also a broadcaster, doing work for ESPN and Westwood One in their coverage of college softball.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to O’Brien-Amico about her storied softball career, playing in the Olympics, her powerful testimony of faith, and what it was like playing with fellow legends Lisa Fernandez and Jennie Finch.

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