Height: 5'-8"

Position: 3B - R/RHometown: Canyon Country, CA

School: Palm Beach CC

Graduation: 1998

Birthday September 8, 1977

2008 Softball Player of the Year

Silver Medalist at the Beijing Games hitting  .500 (11-for-22) with a team-high six home runs and 10 RBI.

 She also broke two of her own records as well as tied one. 

She broke the record of most home runs hit (5) in an Olympic Games with six and broke her Olympic slugging percentage of .923 from 2004 hitting 1.318 in 2008.

 She recorded 12 runs as the U.S. outscored opponents 58-5, while tying her own RBI Olympic record with 10 from 2004.

World Cup Champion (2006 & 2007)

• Three-time Pan American gold medalist (1999, 2003 & 2007)

• World Champion (2006)

Two-time Olympic Gold medalist (2000 & 2004)

National Team Experience

2007 

• One of three girls on the team to compete in all 20 games of the summer, either as designated player or at third base.

• Gold medalist at Pan American Games

Hit .375 (3-for-8); scored four runs with a double and a homerun for five RBI

• World Cup Champion

Hit .538 (7-for-13) with two homeruns and eight RBI, scoring six runs

2006

• Gold medalist at ISF World Championships

Hit a team-tying high .500 (17-34) average with 14 RBI and a team-high 6 doubles.

Scored 10 runs with two homeruns including one in the championship game to pad the lead to 3-0, a World Championship victory.

• World Cup Champion

Hit .353 (6-for-17) with a two home runs and 10 RBI

2005

• Gold medalist at Pan Am qualifier in Guatemala City

2004

• Gold medalist at Olympic Games in Athens, Greece

Hit .346 with five homeruns and 10 RBI

2003

• Gold medalist at Pan American Games

Hit .320 with eight hits and nine RBI

2002

• Member of U.S. Women’s Elite Team

Hit .560 with four doubles, four homeruns and 13 RBI at Canada Cup

2000

• Gold medalist at Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia

Led the team with 10 hits, three homeruns and five runs scored

1999

 • Gold medalist at the Pan American Games

Led the team with 18 hits, three homeruns and 15RBI

At Palm Beach Community College

• Team won two NJCAA National Championships

• Two-time NJCAA first team All American

• Two-time NJCAA Player of the Year

Other

• Member of NPF Akron Racers (2006)

• Member of NPF Champions, Akron Racers (2005)

• Played for WPSL Gold, professional team consisting of 2000 Olympians (2001)

• Played for the Akron Racers of WPSL (1999)

• WPSL League MVP while leading the Orlando Wahoos to the Championship (1998)

Howard W. Carrier is 61 years old and has been coaching for more than 20 years. Other than Crystl Bustos, he also works with Indiana Wesleyan University thanks to Coach Sue Bowman and Coach Jerry Breaux from Evangel University. One of his most memorable university coaches whom he has worked with is Coach Mike Larabee formally of Wright State University and now Head Coach at the University of Arkansas. His attempt is to break the swing down so anyone can understand it and we use techniques that help the elite athlete and we never forget we have all kinds of kids who learn differently and they can be as good as they want, just ask Crystl Bustos!