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“Embrace the challenge.
There’s rarely a reason not
to try something. If it could
be a great opportunity,
then take it with both
hands, and if it doesn’t
work out, at least you know
it didn’t work out, rather
than always wondering
what could have been.”
it can make us thousands and thousands of
dollars, so you feel you have a really big impact
on the performance of the company.”
Softball commitments still take Gettins
away from her job for four to six weeks
every year, and she is grateful to her
managers and colleagues for supporting
her sporting pursuits.
Although she officially retired from elite level
competition since the White Sox were knocked
out of the Tokyo Olympics qualifier in 2019,
Gettins remains heavily committed to
achieving success through sport.
She has recently designed an app that can
give softball and baseball teams a competitive
advantage over their opposition using
analytics. After launching her chartIT app,
Gettins took three months of unpaid leave
and travelled to the US to promote it and
test the market.
COVID-19 has meant a sudden end to travel,
so instead Gettins is now concentrating her
efforts on developing additional features for
the app.
“I’ve created a tool that can literally change
how people perceive the sport, so I want to do
justice to that,” says Gettins. “It’s taken a lot of
time, energy and financial resources to get to
this point, which is why I have been so
committed to it. I’m all in.”
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