Justine Smethurst

Justine Smethurst, born in Melbourne in January 1987, is an Australian softball pitcher. She began playing before the age of twelve, played club softball in the Glen Waverley Softball Association and represented Victoria at national championships from the under 13 level, winning one in 2001. She held softball scholarships with the Victorian Institute of Sport and the Australian Institute of Sport and played for the University of Hawaii at Manoa team in 2006 and 2007 while studying psychology. A member of the senior Australian national team, she toured the United States, Canada and Japan in 2005, won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and pitched for Australia at the 2009 World Cup, where she held Italy hitless until the fifth inning of an 8-0 win.