# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amanda-chidester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:18:55.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amanda-chidester"
name: "Amanda Chidester"
slug: "amanda-chidester"
description: "Amanda Marie Chidester is an American former professional softball player and current assistant coach for Michigan. She was named National Pro Fastpitch Player of the Year for the Chicago Bandits in 2019. She has been a member of the USA Softball Women's National Team on-and-off since 2012. She played college softball at Michigan from 2009 to 2012 and was named First Team All-Big Ten three of her seasons. She was twice selected as the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year and National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American. Chidester represented Team USA at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal. In 2021, Chidester played her second season in the Athletes Unlimited Softball league and placed second in individual points earned."
tagline: "American softball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amanda_Chidester.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1990-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.211736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/chiddy3"
    handle:    "chiddy3"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/chiddy3/"
    handle:    "chiddy3"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ChiddySoftball"
    handle:    "ChiddySoftball"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-chidester/"
    handle:    "amanda-chidester"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://chiddysoftball.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E6%9B%BC%E9%81%94%C2%B7%E5%A5%87%E5%BE%B7%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9"
    title: "阿曼達·奇德斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Chidester"
    title: "Amanda Chidester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Chidester"
    title: "Amanda Chidester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Chidester"
    title: "Amanda Chidester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%DA%86%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "آماندا چیدستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Chidester"
    title: "Amanda Chidester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Chidester"
    title: "Amanda Chidester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Chidester"
    title: "Amanda Chidester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13906744"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump