She is a former softball player. She is one of the best catchers. She has won the Olympics twice. She has played for the UCLA Bruins. Did you recognize her? Yes, she is Stacey Nuveman!
Stacey was born on 26th April 1978 in Los Angeles, California. She began playing softball at the age of 10. Nuveman started her career in 1997 in the UCLA Bruins and she immediately made a great impact with her performance. The former US national softball player won the award “Newcomer of the year”. Two years later she became the “Catcher of the year”.
Nuveman was discovered for softball in 1995 when she became gold medalist at Junior Women’s World Championship. And let’s see what happened then with her career.
She has played softball for the UCLA Bruins for four seasons (1997-2002). Her position, as I said earlier, was catcher. In her last year, Stacey was named for National Softball Collegiate Player of The Year.
Nuveman made her Olympic debut in 2000 at the Summer Games in Sydney. She managed to help her team win the gold medals. She did the same excellent work in the next Olympics in 2004, but reached only the silver in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
However, Stacey Nuveman has also won The World Cup twice and Pan American Gold Medal twice. She has also made the second best Home runs record in the NCAA (90). Nuveman holds the NCAA record for international walks (81).
Off the field, Stacey is a broadcaster. She has done telecasts for FOX Sports, ESPN and CSTV. Nuveman also works with several organizations, such as Visalia Miracle League. In 2003 she married Mark Deniz and changed her name to Nuveman-Deniz. The couple has one son – Chase.
After graduating, Stacey Nuveman played professional softball for Arizona Heat in 2005, but she spent there only 1 year. At the end of the season she was named to the National Pro Fastpitch All-Stars.
Stacey started her coaching career in 2007, when she became an assistant head coach at Serquois College. Her most significant success as a coach came in 2011 when she was chosen for an assistant in the Team US. At this position she won The World Cup and The Pan American Games.
To conclude with, Stacey Nuveman’s moto is ‘Dream Big.’ It’s obvious she has kept up with it, in order to achieve such great things in her career.