Michele Smith - 2011 OSU Alumni Hall of Fame

Michele Smith was inducted into the Oklahoma State University Alumni Hall of Fame on Friday, February 18, 2011, at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center in Stillwater, Okla.

Smith graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in health and wellness. As a pitcher for the Cowgirls softball team, she set eight OSU records and was a three-time All-Big Eight selection, a two-time All-Big Eight Academic selection and a two-time All-American. She now lives in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she has taken up training for triathlons and long-distance biking.

After graduating from OSU, Smith went on to win two U.S. Olympic Softball Gold Medals, three World Championships and two Pan American Games. She followed up her U.S. National Team success with a record setting eight championships during her unprecedented 16 year career in the Japan Professional Softball League. She now serves as a softball commentator for ESPN and a worldwide humanitarian representative for Musco Lighting.

Through her business, Michele Smith Fastpitch, Smith has produced a series of softball educational DVDs and books. She also devotes much of her time to conducting pitching and hitting clinics throughout the U.S. and abroad and to giving motivational speeches on women in leadership, team building and sports training. She serves as a board member for the non-profit Batters Up USA, which supplies equipment to communities wanting to establish recreational baseball and softball youth programs, and for Athletes for Hearts, a non-profit organization which works to provide financial assistance for families of children with heart disease. She is also a passionate and dedicated health and fitness advocate for kids and adults.

Smith has been inducted into the Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma and New Jersey Sports Halls of Fame and is a member of the OSU Alumni Association.

For more information about the OSU Alumni Association's alumni awards program or to submit a nomination, visit http://orangeconnection.org/alumniawards or contact Melissa Mourer at 405.744.3388.

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