# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michelle-venturella
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:28:37.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michelle-venturella"
name: "Michelle Venturella"
slug: "michelle-venturella"
description: "Michelle Ruether Venturella is an American, former collegiate All-American, gold medal-winning Olympian, left-handed softball player and former Head Coach. Venturella played for the Indiana Hoosiers in the Big Ten Conference, being named a three-time all-conference honoree and the 1994 Player of The Year. She later served as an alternate for the 1996 Olympics and then winning a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for Team USA softball. She is the former head coach at Washington University in St. Louis."
tagline: "Softball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MVenturella2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1973-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mventurella23"
    handle:    "mventurella23"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%86%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "مشیل وینچریلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Venturella"
    title: "Michelle Venturella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Venturella"
    title: "Michelle Venturella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "میشل ونتورلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Venturella"
    title: "Michelle Venturella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Venturella"
    title: "Michelle Venturella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Venturella"
    title: "Michelle Venturella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3311476"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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