Amanda Freed


Amanda Louise Freed is an American softball coach and former pitcher.

Early life and college career

Born in Fountain Valley, California and raised in nearby Cypress, Freed went to Pacifica High School in Garden Grove. As a pitcher in high school, Amanda won numerous awards, including the Gatorade National Female Athlete of the Year. As a senior in high school, Freed was rank the top pitcher in the world and even threw 5 perfect games.
As the top softball recruit in 1998, Freed decided to attend UCLA where she played for the UCLA Bruins softball team from 1999 to 2002. To this day Freed stats at UCLA are impressive. Freed holds records in the top 10 for eight categories of pitching and eight categories of hitting.

College statistics

YEARGABRHBARBIHR3B2BTBSLGBBSOSBSBA
1999692275081.35721111298.431%1229910
2000581793556.31319231583.463%18301317
2001592004563.3152733987.467%22241618
2002642105262.29531141486.409%20151313
TOTALS250816182262.3219871150354.435%72985158

YEARWLGPGSCGSHOSVIPHRERBBSOERAWHIP
1999274353231153211.21243729631870.960.88
2000288383227120234.21365242962461.250.99
2001214272517111152.0701510281570.460.64
200221427272290165.1883122471700.930.82
TOTALS972012711697474763.24181351032347600.940.85

International playing career

Freed played for a number of years as part of the for the United States women's national softball team, winning gold at the Canadian Cup and World Cup in 2002, the team won gold at 2003 Pan American Games, 2004 Summer Olympics, and 2006 World Cup of Softball. Amanda was also an alternate at the 2000 Olympics, where the team won gold.

Professional playing career

From 2005 to 2008, Freed played for National Pro Fastpitch, first with the Texas Thunder from 2005 to 2007 then with the Chicago Bandits Cowles Cup championship team in 2008.

Post-playing career

In 2008, Freed was an assistant coach at Virginia under Eileen Schmidt.
In 2009, Freed was a personal trainer for Reese Witherspoon during filming for the movie How Do You Know, in which Witherspoon played a softball player.
Freed later became a softball color commentator for FSW, ESPN and Pac-12 Network.