Tanya Harding

Tanya Harding is an Australian softball pitcher born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1972. She competed for Australia at four consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1996, taking bronze medals in 1996, 2000 and 2008 and a silver medal in 2004. The Queenslander was ranked among the top five pitchers in the world for over a decade. In 1995 she enrolled at UCLA for one quarter and was named most valuable player of the NCAA championship tournament for a Bruins squad whose title was later stripped in 1997 for scholarship violations, so officially there is no 1995 champion. She was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2022.