Three-time Olympic gold medalist for softball Leah Amico was the keynote speaker for Kosciusko Community YMCA’s annual Good Friday Breakfast on Friday, March 29, at Christ’s Covenant Church in Winona Lake.

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By Leah Sander
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WINONA LAKE — University of Arizona softball player Leah Amico had seen much success in her life by her junior year of college.

Her team had won two national championships and she was an All-American.

However, as Amico explained on Friday, March 29, during the Kosciusko Community YMCA’s annual Good Friday Breakfast, she needed God in her life.

Amico, a three-time softball Olympic gold medalist, who now coaches softball internationally and is a college softball analyst, author and motivational speaker, was the keynote speaker for Friday’s event at Christ’s Covenant Church in Winona Lake.

She said she was introduced to Jesus as a child, but didn’t officially have a relationship with Him.

That changed during her junior year of college when a freshman player named Julie joined her team, she said.

“God knew that I needed to know Who He was in the midst of (the success),” said Amico. “God (sent) a little ball of fire full of Jesus Christ on my team, Julie.”

“She had God’s confidence in her,” noted Amico.

Amico remembered Julie praying before the team played.

“I remember listening to how she prayed, and I’d be like, ‘Man, I want to learn to talk to you like that, God. She talks to You like You’re her Friend,'” said Amico.

She said Julie asked her to go to Bible study with her.

“I’m so glad that I didn’t just bail out because God wanted to meet me that day,” said Amico. “That day in my heart, I said, ‘God, I want to follow You.'”

Amico referenced the Bible story of several of Jesus’ disciples immediately leaving what they were doing to to follow Him.

“Following is what makes the difference. That is leadership,” she said. “That’s the legacy that we’re trying to leave: are we leading people in a way that leaves a legacy of Jesus?”

Amico added when she “gave (God) everything is when I truly experienced the power and presence and all that God has.”