Jade Wall

Fast Facts

Sport: Softball
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1989
State Born: QLD

About Jade

Jade Wall began playing softball at nine years old with the Hervey Bay Cheetahs, and a few years later, found herself accepting a scholarship to play softball with the Queensland Academy of Sport. 

By 2006, she had been named to the Queensland Women's Open team, the youngest on the squad at only 17 years of age. 

Wall has battled several different injuries throughout her career, including two shoulder injuries that required reconstructive surgeries, and another surgery to reconstruct her right elbow. Each surgery took an average of nine months to completely recover from. 

Jade headed into her first Olympics, familiar with the atmosphere of international competition. In 2011, Jade was selected to the All-Star team that competed at the Canada Softball Cup in 2011. 

Jade has been a member of the Australian team since 2009, previously training with the last Softball team to compete at the Olympics in 2008. 

Additionally, Jade has played outfielder for the Aussie Peppers Team in the National Pro Fastpitch League since 2020. 

Aside from competing herself, she has also previously assisted in training the Queensland U15 and U17 teams. 

Wall 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. 

Jade 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).