As you'd probably expect from someone at Olivia Pichardo's level, sport is nothing new to this history making athlete. In fact, Picardo has pretty much always has a passion for the game, as her love for baseball began when she was just 5-years-old. Only, it didn't exactly start smoothly. As Pichardo revealed on her website, there were no slots available for her to play that year, so she instead played lob ball. The year after that, she started to learn pitching skills and instantly fell in love with (despite admitting she wasn't exactly super skilled on her first attempt). She worked on her skills with her dad, and, by the time she was 8, she started playing baseball properly. "The boys were giddy with excitement knowing they were facing a girl," she shared, admitting she still wasn't the most skilled — but that just spurred her on. "I just kept playing and working harder," she said.
It was when she graduated to middle school that she realized the sport could turn into a career, and then set her sights on playing into her college years, per Brown. Speaking of the moment she found out she'd made it into the Brown University team, she shared, "It's something that I've wanted since eighth grade. It's kind of crazy to know that I'm living out my dream right now and my ideal college experience that I've always wanted, so that's really cool."
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