Tarni Stepto

Tarni Stepto is an Australian softball player and Olympian, born in 1999 and raised in New South Wales. She grew up in a sports-minded family and began pitching because her sister was a pitcher. She made her junior national team debut as a teenager, was chosen for her first New South Wales team in 2015 and was named most valuable player of the under-17 national championships in 2017. She joined the senior Australian side in 2018 and played in the Pacific Cup, then enrolled at Oregon State University, where she was named Scenic West Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year in her first year. She was selected for the Australian women's national softball team at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where Australia finished fifth and she pitched against the United States.