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City mourns Amanda Asay’s tragic death Canada’s PhD pitcher considered by many the country’s best women’s baseball player ever TED CLARKE Citizen staff
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Amanda Asay in 2012 holds her silver medal from the Canadian national baseball championship and bronze medal from the Women’s Baseball World Cup. She died last Friday in a skiing accident near Nelson at the age of 33. ‘Give me more,’ because she always wanted to get better and better.” Rainer Lippmann coached Asay with the peewee Knights. “She was frickin’ tough, and good,” said Lippmann. “We didn’t play any favourites. She earned her spot.” See SHE WAS JUST SO GOOD, page 7
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Randy Young watched her develop. “She was very kind and always hard-working, very coachable, just a great kid overall and a great teammate,” said Young. “When we were doing blocking drills when she was young, she had no quit. You’re throwing balls at the catcher who is getting beaten up, it’s not a fun drill, but she didn’t care. She just said,
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about the fact she likes to think about how to be better as a person and better as an athlete.” That indomitable will to improve helped Asay excel against the boys in Little League Baseball playing for PG East. Her father George was her house league team coach and she also played for the Prince George Knights rep team, where
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Andre Lachance knew when the going got tough, he could always turn to Amanda Asay – his PhD pitcher – to think of a way to lead the Canadian women’s baseball team to victory. Whether it was with her bat or her throwing arm, Asay never failed to deliver the goods. The medals they won together in international tournaments speak volumes about how effective his right-handed chucker from Prince George was in creating the joyful memories that came from winning at the highest levels of the game. That joy turned to sorrow in the sporting world Friday when Asay died at age 33 after she fell into a tree well while skiing at Whitewater Ski Resort near Nelson. “She was a great teammate and she made everyone better around her,” said Lachance, who coached Asay with the national team until 2018. “She started as a catcher and moved to first base and then became one of the best pitchers in the world after that. That says a lot about her skills on the baseball field. “She was always looking for better ways of doing things, always being curious, always looking for ways we could win by getting more information on an opponent. She was a really curious ball player and when you’re curious your innovation and creativity and performance will emerge. The girl has a PhD, and that tells you lot