Vicky Galindo

Vicky Galindo
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamWest Valley
ConferenceCoast
Biographical details
Born (1983-12-22) December 22, 1983 (age 40)
Union City, California
Playing career
2002West Valley
2003–2005California
2005–2007Chicago Bandits
2009–2013Chicago Bandits
Position(s)Third base, second base
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2006California (undergrad. asst.)
2007–2009San Jose State (asst.)
2010–presentWest Valley
Medal record
Women's softball
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Team competition

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.[1][2][3][4][5] 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.[6][7][8] She was drafted to 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.[9][10]

Career

Galindo played for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears from 2003–2005 and for West Valley Junior College for the 2002 season. She was an undergrad assistant at Cal in 2006.[11][12] Galindo was on the US national team from 2005-2007. She was also the assistant coach for the San Jose State in 2007. In 2009 she took the head coaching position at West Valley College and became an associate faculty member. She was hired full time in 2014, and teaches in the Kinesiology Department as the lead Pilates certificate instructor. 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's baseball team. There was an extra jersey and he told her to go play.

She was inducted to the Cal Hall of Fame in 2015, and her Jersey was retired in 2013 from the NPF Chicago Bandits.

Personal life

In 2014, she married Eddie Piatt.[13] The couple have three children together.

James Logan High School

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

She was inducted into the James Logan Hall of Fame in 2009, and her softball jersey was retired in 2012.

Statistics

California Golden Bears
YEAR G AB R H BA RBI HR 3B 2B TB SLG BB SO SB SBA
2003 68 225 39 73 .324 21 1 4 5 89 .395% 15 22 19 23
2004 66 222 53 83 .374 20 7 2 18 126 .567% 19 25 23 32
2005 55 176 49 57 .324 16 4 3 11 86 .488% 9 19 19 23
TOTALS 189 623 141 213 .342 57 12 9 34 301 .483% 43 66 61 78
Team USA Olympic Games
YEAR G AB R H BA RBI HR 3B 2B TB SLG BB SO SB
2008 5 5 1 3 .600 1 0 0 1 4 .800% 0 1 0

College Softball

2002
Freshman Year
  • Led West Valley Junior College to the state championship title
  • Earned All-American honors
  • First team all-league
    • .510 batting average
2003
Sophomore 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
2004
Junior 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
2005
Senior 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

  1. ^ "2004 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  2. ^ "2005 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". Nfca.org. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  3. ^ "2012 AWARD WINNERS" (PDF). Profastpitch.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "2013 AWARD WINNERS" (PDF). Profastpitch.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "Vicky Piatt". Westvalley.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  6. ^ "2020 Golden Bears California Record Book" (PDF). Calbears.com. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  7. ^ "California WCWS Stats". Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  8. ^ "California WCWS Stats". Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  9. ^ "2008 Olympic Games". Teamusa.org. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  10. ^ "Victoria Galindo". Teamusa.org. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
  11. ^ "Vicky Galindo". Cal Bears. Archived from the original on April 1, 2005. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  12. ^ "California Golden Bears - Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on 2007-07-18. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
  13. ^ @VickyGalindo19 (12 June 2014). "@Athletics @CSNAthletics me and my new husband Eddie Piatt on nerd power night #csncafanphoto" (Tweet) – via Twitter.