Three New Zealand softballers named in world softball hall of fame

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Three New Zealand softballers named in world softball hall of fame 




Former Black Sox coach Eddie Kohlhase, the first New Zealander to win a
world championship as a player and as a coach, joins compatriots Dean Rice
and Debbie Mygind in world softball's hall of fame.
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Three New Zealand world champions have been named in world softball's hall
of fame.

Aucklanders Debbie Mygind, Dean Rice and Eddie Kohlhase were inducted at
the recent World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) softball division
congress in Oklahoma City.

Mygind pitched New Zealand to a gold medal at the 1982 world championships
in Taiwan and was named in the 1982 world team. She was also part of New
Zealand's bronze medal squad at the 1986 world championships in Auckland.

The Aucklander was a member of the Cal State Fullerton division one team in
United States college softball. She was New Zealand female player of the
year in 1985 and was ranked by longserving New Zealand coach Ed Dolejs as
New Zealand's greatest female pitcher in he prime.

Mygind also attended a junior world championship and two women's world
championships as an assistant coach. She was Softball New Zealand's
pitching director from 2005 to 2012. 

Kohlhase, now a national coaching adviser with High Performance Sport New
Zealand, was the first and so far only New Zealander to win world
championship titles as a player and a coach.

He won a gold medal at he 1984 world championships and silver medals at the
1988 and 1992 tournaments.

Kohlhase was the New Zealand Black Sox's assistant coach when they won gold
medals at the 2000 and 2004 world championships. He took over as head coach
in 2005 and guided the team to a silver medal in 2009 and a gold medal in
his Auckland hometown in 2013.

The former New Zealand Customs senior manager was inducted into the New
Zealand Softball hall of fame in 2004 and was New Zealand softballer of the
year in 2013 after coaching the Black Sox to a record sixth world crown

Rice, a specialist third baseman, won gold medals with the Black Sox at he
1996 and 2000 world championships and silver in 1992. He was part of New
Zealand's world champion Junior Black Sox team in 1985, was New Zealand
softballer of the year in 2006 and is also in the New Zealand Softball hall
of fame.
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Rice also attended two women's world championships and two Olympic
qualifiers as both assistant coach and head coach. He was New Zealand's
coach of the year in the 2009-10 season.

Thirty-seven New Zealand players, coaches, administrators and umpires are
now in the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame.

Meanwhile, the WBSC's international softball division has confirmed that
Prague will be the first European city to host a men's softball world
championships. The Czech Republic capital won the bid to stage the 2019
tournament after the 2017 event is held in Whitehorse, Canada.

The 2018 women's world championships will be held in Chiba, Japan with the
2018 junior men's (under-19) world tournament in Prince Albert, Saskatoon
in Canada.

Irvine, California will be the host city for the 2019 world junior women's
(under-19) tournament.

 

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