Justine Siegal was born on 1975 and is an American baseball coach, sports educator and the founder of Baseball For All.
14 Facts About Justine Siegal
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Justine Siegal has thrown batting practice to the Tampa Bay Rays, St Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, and New York Mets.
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Justine Siegal coached Israel National Baseball Team at the 2016 qualifier for the 2017 World Baseball classic.
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Justine Siegal's grandfather led the fundraising for Israel Bonds in Cleveland for a number of years.
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Justine Siegal grew up in Cleveland Heights, a suburb of Cleveland.
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Justine Siegal was introduced to baseball at a very young age, as her grandfather frequently took her to Cleveland Indians baseball games.
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Justine Siegal continued playing baseball despite people who discouraged her.
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Justine Siegal attended the Brewster Academy and Hawken School.
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Justine Siegal's academic focus is in performance enhancement, leadership, sport management, coaching, gender equity, and youth sports.
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In 2002, Justine Siegal formed the Sparks, the first all-girl team to compete in a national "boys" baseball tournament.
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Justine Siegal has been a Coach and Technical Commissioner for the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
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Justine Siegal has coached for the World Children's Baseball Fair and has served as Baseball's Athlete Representative at the IOC Athlete Forum.
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Justine Siegal was hired by the Oakland Athletics in October 2015 for a two-week coaching stint as a guest instructor in their instructional league in Arizona, becoming the first female coach for a Major League Baseball team.
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Justine Siegal is the founder and executive director of Baseball for All, an organization that works toward gender equity in youth baseball by strongly encouraging and providing opportunities for girls to participate in baseball.