Stacey Porter

Stacey Porter (born 29 March 1982) is an Australian professional indigenous softball first/third baseman.

She represents New South Wales in Australian national competitions, where she has won several national championships on the junior and senior team.

Porter, an Indigenous Australian, was born on 29 March 1982 in Tamworth, New South Wales.

She is 183 cm tall.

She attended Peel High School, while playing club field hockey.

She played university softball for the University of Hawaii from 2001 to 2003 where she set several records and was named to the All-American team.

She plays professional softball in Japan.

She represented Australia at the junior level and continues to represent Australia at the senior level and is current Australian Captain.

She later attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was a freshman in 2001, and a junior in 2003.

Growing up, she wanted to be a travel agent.

Porter has moved around.

From 2001 to 2003, she was in Hawaii, U.S., where she attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Porter, playing third base, joined the University of Hawaii team in 2001, where she started in 49 games and played in 53 total games.

While there, she had six home runs, scoring the sixth in a game against Texas Tech and in the process broke the university's freshman home run record.

That season, she finished second on the team the number of runs batted and total home runs.

She was honoured with being the WAC Player of the Week in the fifth on 7 May 2001.

She was twice named to all-tournaments teams, once for the Malihini Tourney and the second time for the Hawai`i Invitational.

Porter played with the university again for their 2002 season, where she started all 60 games.

This season, she played first base and hit in the clean-up position.

At the end of the season, her statistics included a hitting 47 RBIs with 24 coming against conference opponents, 15 home runs overall and seven against conference opponents, and having a batting average of .347 against conference opponents.

In a 30 March game against San Jose State University, she set a personal career-high four hits in a single game.

That season, she had a streak of having hits nine games in a row.

Porter returned for the university's 2003 season.

She started every game that season.

She was named to the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I All-America first team.

At the end of the season, she broke her own school and conference record for the number of home runs in a single season having batted 17 of them and had a batting average of .479.

She was also named to the Western Athletic Conference first team, named the conferences player of the year and was named to a NFCA/Louisville Slugger first-team All-American, only the eighth player from her university to earn that recognition.

Stacey competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she won a silver medal and the 2008 Summer Olympics where she won a bronze medal and has competed in multiple world softball championships.

Porter was the first indigenous Australian to represent the country at softball in the Olympics, when she competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

In 2006, she was living in Stanhope Gardens, New South Wales and in 2008, she was living in Glenwood, New South Wales.

She moved to the Sydney area from Tamworth to gain access to better training facilities.

Porter plays first and third base.

The Eastern Reporter and Stirling Times describe her as the "woman regarded as the worlds best batter".

In 2008, she played for had a scholarship with and played for the Australian Institute of Sport team.

In 2008, she was playing professionally in the Japanese Softball League.

In 2012, she coached the Western Desert softball team in an exhibition match in Perth, Western Australia.

The Desert team was created by Indigenous Sports Program, part of the Western Australian Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) run with Softball Western Australia and Newcrest Mining.

The team she coached drew players from Parnngurr, Warralong, Jigalong, Kiwirrkurra, Nullagine and Punmu.

She plays Australian club softball for the Brisbane Panthers Softball Club.

In March 2012, it was announced that she and Vanessa Stokes would be part of a programme funded by Softball Australia and the federal government to increase aboriginal involvement in the sport.