Brooke Wilkins
Published Tue 01 Dec 2020
| SPORT | Softball |
| YEAR INDUCTED | 2020 - Athlete Member |
Brooke Wilkins always said she was one against nine. A softball pitcher, standing 15m from nine opposition batters, armed only with a lethal left arm. Get on top early, she'd say, and you usually stayed there.
For 12 years on the world stage as one of Australia's foremost softball representatives, she played 197 games for her country including 1994-1998-2002 World Championships and 1996-2000-2004 Olympics for three bronze and two silver medals.
Born in Sydney but a Queenslander through her prime, she was inducted into the International Softball Hall of Fame in 2013 after similar recognition from Softball Queensland and Softball Australia.
She played at national level for 22 years, served four years on the Australian Olympic Committee's Athletes Commission and recieved the game's national 'Spirit Award' for not just her excellence on the diamond but her contribution across all levels of her sport.
Brooke Wilkins is the 200th member of the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame and the 50th female inducteed.
