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Born | Shawnee, Kansas | March 3, 1995
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Sport | Softball |
College team | Cal Poly Mustangs |
League | Women's Professional Fastpitch |
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Sierra Hyland (born March 3, 1995) is a professional softball pitcher for the Smash It Sports Vipers of the Women's Professional Fastpitch (WPF). She represented Mexico at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and helped them place fourth. [1] [2] [3]
Hyland was born in Merriam, Kansas and grew up in Visalia, California. She played softball at El Diamante High School. [4] [5] [6]
She graduated from Cal Poly. [7] [8] As a Mustang, Hyland broke the all-time career Big West Conference strikeouts record [9] (finishing with 965) and tossed three perfect games (on March 29, 2014; February 11, 2017; and May 22, 2017 in the NISC).
She also played for the Cleveland Comets after being drafted fourth overall in 2017. [10] [11] As a rookie with Chicago, Hyland compiled a 3.57 ERA in 15.2 innings. [12]
At the 2021 Olympics, Hyland pitched 1.2 innings across two games, holding opposing batters to a .167 average.
Personal information | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Shawnee, Kansas | March 3, 1995
Sport | |
Sport | Softball |
College team | Cal Poly Mustangs |
League | Women's Professional Fastpitch |
Team |
Sierra Hyland (born March 3, 1995) is a professional softball pitcher for the Smash It Sports Vipers of the Women's Professional Fastpitch (WPF). She represented Mexico at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and helped them place fourth. [1] [2] [3]
Hyland was born in Merriam, Kansas and grew up in Visalia, California. She played softball at El Diamante High School. [4] [5] [6]
She graduated from Cal Poly. [7] [8] As a Mustang, Hyland broke the all-time career Big West Conference strikeouts record [9] (finishing with 965) and tossed three perfect games (on March 29, 2014; February 11, 2017; and May 22, 2017 in the NISC).
She also played for the Cleveland Comets after being drafted fourth overall in 2017. [10] [11] As a rookie with Chicago, Hyland compiled a 3.57 ERA in 15.2 innings. [12]
At the 2021 Olympics, Hyland pitched 1.2 innings across two games, holding opposing batters to a .167 average.