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Amy Moore: GB softball player says Olympics ‘a unique dream after capturing’

Raul Walker by Raul Walker
March 11, 2023
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For Amy Moore, a survivor of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the technique of trying to qualify for the Olympics is a “special dream.” In truth, the 28 year-vintage catcher for Great Britain’s softball crew is thankful to be gambling in any respect. In October 2017, fifty-eight people were killed and greater than 500 injured in a mass capturing an open-air us of a music live performance in Vegas. Moore, who lives in Los Angeles, and crew-mate Alicja Wolny were a gift that night time. “I am grateful for each unmarried day; I should not even be here,” Moore advised BBC Sport.

“Going via any such traumatic enjoy will provide you with an angle on the existence and the little things I love to do.” Moore had gone to the occasion with a group of pals when a gunman opened hearth from the nearby Mandalay Bay Hotel. The incident has been described because the deadliest mass taking pictures dedicated through a character in American records.

“That became the fastest I’ve ever run in my complete lifestyles as it changed into a lifestyles-or-demise state of affairs,” stated Moore. “The things we noticed along the manner become simply difficult. “For someone to be shot 5 feet in front of me – and now not me – I realize I turned into meant to live in this earth and percentage my tale and be exceptionally grateful for all my possibilities.” She has in view that packed as lots as she can into lifestyles.

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As well as having a full-time job in a commercial enterprise, Moore works element-time as a ball lady for the LA Dodgers baseball team and finds time to teach softball to school kids. Qualification for Tokyo 2020
Moore is the longest-serving member of the Great Britain softball squad who, this summer season, will try and qualify for next yr’s Tokyo Olympics.

Asked if the group can qualify, she replies: “Hell, yeah! This is the quality team we’ve got ever had.” Starting on Sunday, 30 June, the group will be competing in the European Championship within the Czech Republic. A pinnacle-six finish will send them to the Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier event from 23 July. Only one team from that will be a number of the six international locations at Tokyo 2020. GB Softball women are ranked fourth in Europe. This yr they get a hold of £ sixty-two,500 from UK Sport’s Aspiration Funding towards qualifying for Tokyo 2020.

But the gamers nevertheless pay their personal manner to and from competitions, a few have 2nd jobs or need to take leave to play video games, and a few have needed to pass some distance from domestic – all for you to pursue their dream. The odds, it appears, can be stacked towards them. But stability sheet numbers and rating positions have now not dimmed the pleasure and self-assurance around their Olympic bid.

And they do have skills capable of troubling any group. In Georgina Corrick, GB has one of the pinnacle 25 US college softball gamers of 2019. And, in Nerissa Myers, the team has the second-excellent batter statistically within the global. “Have you ever had Oreos and dipped them in milk and eaten them?” Myers says whilst requested approximately her feeling of possibly getting to the Olympics. “It’s phenomenal. That’s what the feeling is like.

“When there’s something you dream about as a bit kid, and now it is so near you can almost contact it – for me, it is first-rate feeling in the international.” Moore also has a feeling it can be their time. “I have those weird feelings I get,” she says. “I’m simply confident that every single person in the sector can get the task done. “We have the uncooked potential and the talent and the training and the funding. “Everything has lined up this year, and we can get to the Olympics.”

Raul Walker

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