Clare Warwick

Fast Facts

Sport: Softball
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1987
State Born: ACT

About Clare

Clare Warwick began playing softball at nine years old after her best friend convinced her to join her in the sport. Warwick made the decision to pursue professional softball early on in her career, despite also excelling in club soccer and basketball.

By the time she graduated high school in 2004, she had been named to the Australian Capital Territory's U19 State Team, ranked third in the country. She remained a member of the Canberra team domestically.

Warwick plays as a utility player, meaning that she can play catcher, shortstop and third base. 

Like many of her national squad teammates, Clare studied at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she majored in Kinesiology. She played third base and shortstop positions during her four years of college softball, where she played two hundred and thirty games and was named to the academic all-WAC team three times, as well as being named a two-time NFCA Scholar-Athlete. 

After graduating college, Warwick returned to Australia, where she turned professional at 23 years old. 

Clare played three seasons of Softball in the Italian Softball League, with the Baseball/Softball Club Legano. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Sports Achievement Award from the Australian Institute of Sport.

Outside of the pitch, Clare is a high school teacher in Canberra, teaching Italian and science to Years 7-10. 

Warwick made her Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 games, competing alongside the women's softball team. Australia would face a first-round matchup against Japan, now not only the past Olympic champions but also the hosts of the event. In their opening fixture, the Aussies would fall to Japan (8)-(1) a rough loss to the hosts, who would go on to win consecutive Gold medals. 

Clare would help Australia bounce back in their second fixture of the games, where they would hold a (1)-(0) lead against Italy until the end of the tie. They would not, however, continue this run of form, later falling to eventual bronze medalists in Canada. 

This would set up a must-win match against the United States, one of the strongest teams competing in the discipline. Australia would fall agonisingly close to a result against the US, in a fixture that would remain scoreless for 7 innings and required to go into extras. The United States would ultimately edge out the match, winning (2) - (1). 

In their final game, Australia would play Mexico for a place in the bronze medal match. The team would, unfortunately, fail to qualify for their third medal consecutive medal matchup, losing the match (4) - (1).