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Texas Softball Legend Announces Retirement After Winning Silver at Tokyo

Cat Osterman #38 of Team Warren prepares to pitch in the first inning against Team Fagan at Parkway Bank Sports Complex on Aug. 29, 2020 in Rosemont, Illinois.
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Softball pitcher Cat Osterman has officially hung up her glove.

The three-time Olympic medalist from Texas said during an interview with NBC 5 at the Tokyo Olympics just after the team won that she would be retiring for good this time.

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Osterman came out of retirement when softball was added back to the Olympics for one final chance at gold.

She posted a photo to her Instagram Wednesday night with the caption "next chapter."

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Osterman won a gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004, and she won silver in Beijing in 2008 and Tokyo in 2020.

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