{"id":131788,"date":"2026-01-21T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:33:08","slug":"cat-osterman-mia-scott-say-its-a-dream-come-true-to-have-texas-volts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131788\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Osterman, Mia Scott say its a dream come true to have Texas Volts"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of\u00a0Cat <\/a>Osterman<\/a>‘s championship-winning 2010 season with National Pro Fastpitch, a women’s professional softball league that folded, she left something for Chris Almendarez, who was working closely with the team when Dell Diamond hosted NPF games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Almendarez, now the president of the Round Rock Express, found a signed softball from Osterman as a “thank you.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“He (Chris) was with us for everything … I just saw the work that went into it and we didn’t have a lot of people putting that much work into our series and pro softball at that point,” Osterman said Tuesday at an Athlete Unlimited Softball League launch event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Texas Alum left to right Bella Dayton, Cat Osterman, Mia Scott, Mary Iakopo.<\/p>\n

Jade Hewitt\/AUSL<\/p>\n

Osterman and Almendarez talked throughout the season about how cool it would be to bring a pro softball team to their native state, Texas. Sixteen years later, it was announced that instead of touring the country<\/a>, the AUSL will have the Texas Volts play their home games out of Dell Diamond and that Osterman would continue her role as general manager.<\/p>\n

“It’s a dream come true,” Osterman said. “Little girls now get to own a team and say they want to be a Volt, a part of the Cascade or Talons (other AUSL teams) and that’s something we never had in other iterations of pro softball.”<\/p>\n

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While it was a dream come\u00a0true for Osterman, other Volts players, who did not think it was possible,\u00a0finally get to call Texas their home for the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Outfielder Amanda Lorenz recalled that she had a bunch of dreams, including to play for Team USA and to play in the Women’s College World Series. An All-American who played for Florida, she holds gold medals from World Games and helped the Gators make three straight trips to Oklahoma City for the WCWS.<\/p>\n

Lorenz said playing softball deep into her late 20s with AUSL was a dream that didn’t exist because for a long time, the highest level that could be achieved was with Team USA, an 18-player roster. Becoming a Volt is a realized dream after playing for so long and\u00a0watching softball grow in popularity<\/a>, she said.<\/p>\n

“I just of think my younger self and my dreams of playing softball for as long as possible,” Lorenz said. “If you can see her, you can be her.”<\/p>\n

Former Texas softball star\u00a0Mia Scott<\/a> also helped ring in the new team Tuesday. The third basemen initially didn’t want to turn pro, but had a change of heart after the draft. Osterman kept her in mind in case a Volt got hurt, which ended up happening.<\/p>\n

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Members of the Texas Volts pose at a launch event held at Inn Cahoots Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2025 in Austin. (L:R Ricci Woodard, Amanda Laurenz, Cat Osterman, Mia Scott).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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So when Osterman gave Scott the call, the former Longhorn got a hero’s welcome in front of a crowd of 6,500<\/a> on the Saturday of a four-game series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Even though I don’t live here any more, Austin is home and I’m just super excited to get back and play in front of a familiar crowd,” Scott said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She joined us and I think she realized what she’s capable of,” Osterman said. “Hopefully she does this for a couple years to come so we can continue to feed off that Texas connection.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The AUSL decided to change from a touring model to placing teams in cities because of how successful the stops were, especially last summer at Dell Diamond. Osterman said if there was any chance to have a pro team play in Texas, a stop in Round Rock was going to easily convince AUSL Commissioner Kim Ng.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Austin\/Round Rock is proof of the concept that people will pack out a large venue to watch pro softball,” Ng said. “We no longer have to envision what it could look like, we now know what it will look like.”<\/p>\n

The Volts open their season June 9 against the Oklahoma City Spark, a new team for the AUSL. The home opener at Dell Diamond is June 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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