131: She Got Her AUSL Golden Ticket: Sydney Stewart's Mental Approach for Success

About this episode

Sydney Stewart shares her journey to becoming a professional softball player after receiving her AUSL Golden Ticket.

Sydney Stewart just made history. Jennie Finch walked onto the field at Arizona and handed Sydney her AUSL Golden Ticket, making her one of only 17 collegiate players in the country guaranteed a spot in the professional draft. When we first recorded this conversation, Sydney was a junior transfer just arriving in Tucson with something to prove. Now she is a first-team All-Big 12 and second-team All-American catcher with 40 career home runs, 150 RBI, and a professional contract on the way. Go ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Coach AB, Amanda Schaefer

Guest: Sydney Stewart

Topics covered

• mental approach
• success
• sports history
• softball
• professional draft

Keywords

• Sydney Stewart
• AUSL Golden Ticket
• Jennie Finch
• professional draft
• softball
• All-Big 12
• All-American
• career home runs
• RBI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AUSL, Big 12, Arizona

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