Nicole Luchanski

Nicole Luchanski (born December 20, 1989 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian baseball player. She is a member of the Canada women's national baseball team which won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.[1][2][3]

Nicole Luchanski
Medal record
Women's baseball
Representing  Canada
Women's Baseball World Cup
2006 Taiwan Team competition
2008 Japan Team competition
2012 Canada Team competition
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto Team competition

Playing career

Baseball

She has competed with the Canadian national team in five IBAF Women’s World Cups (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014). In the bronze medal game of the 2012 Women’s World Cup, a 17-13 victory against Australia, Luchanski hit the first home run of the event.[4] Of note, it was an inside the park home run,[5] making Luchanski the only player at the event to hit a home run. In 2014, she competed with Team Alberta, winning a gold medal at the Senior Women’s Invitational National Championships in Canada. She also had the opportunity to train with Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar at Whalley Athletic Park in Surrey, British Columbia. It was part of the second day of training camp leading up to the 2014 Women's World Cup.[6]

Awards and honours
  • 2010 Jimmy Rattlesnake Award[7]
  • 2012 IBAF Women’s World Cup of Baseball All-Tournament Team

Personal

She graduated from the University of Alberta in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry.

References
  1. "Baseball - Event Overview - Women". Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. Archived from the original on December 10, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  2. "Baseball: Women: Team Roster: CAN - Canada" (PDF). Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  3. http://baseball.ca/canadian-womens-baseball-team-named-for-toronto-2015-pan-am-games
  4. http://www.baseballalberta.com/default.aspx?p=article&id=26721
  5. http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/19/canada-wins-bronze-at-womens-world-cup
  6. http://www.baseball.ca/womens-national-team-gets-hall-of-fame-help-from-roberto-alomar
  7. http://www.baseball.ca/files/Jimmy%20Rattlesnake%20Award.pdf
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