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march 01, 2019 - Toyota
HARUNA SAKAMOTO: "Each ball. Each game. The accumulation of it all. The joy of winning."
In response to our pre-interview questionnaire, Toyota's women's softball infielder #harunasakamoto, who dons jersey No. 3, wrote to us: "I've never really felt any setbacks."
Sakamoto, who, since graduating from high school, has been playing corporate-league softball for 13 years, must have run into some type of setback or challenge, even if only a small one. With that on our minds, we set out to meet Sakamoto on June 25 at the #Toyota Sports Center, the site where she practices daily.
Baseball first, softball secondSakamoto first took up sports when she was in her fourth year of elementary school. She joined a boys youth baseball team of which her friend, a boy, was a member.
"I played baseball straight through to junior high. Because I mixed in with a team for boys, I was often not able to play in official games. But that didn't bother me. I simply and purely had fun playing baseball," said Sakamoto.
Sakamoto became absorbed in baseball. After entering high school, she decided to test her strengths by undergoing the selection process for the Women's Baseball World Cup, through which her talent landed her a spot on the Japanese national team. But while still in high school, she decided to switch to softball.
"I had considered going to a high school that had both a women's baseball team and a softball team. But, as I should have expected, I started to think about how it would be to leave home from high school age and live in a dorm. Doing both baseball and softball would probably have been too hard. At the time, as a girl who wanted to aim for the future, softball was much more of a major #sport [for women] than baseball. So, I went to a high school in Osaka that was strong in softball," explained Sakamoto.
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