Amiyah Currie Proudly Represents U15 U.S. National Team
Amiyah Currie
Amiyah
Currie
MIF/3B
Brookland | 2028
AR
realized how much softball meant to her when she was 10 years old and playing for an all-star team. The head coach had to pick three girls to send to a national all-star team opportunity. Currie, the youngest player on the team, wasn’t selected.
“The coach said Amiyah is one of the best on the team, but since these older girls only get one chance, I have to take them,” Currie said. “I really took that to heart and I called my dad crying. He promised me from then on that he would do whatever it takes for me to never feel like that again as long as I work hard and get good grades.”
Currie has held up her end of the bargain, developing into one of the top players for her age in the country. The 2028 recruit from Arkansas plays for Unity 16U and is a member of the U15 U.S. Women’s National Team. In March, Currie helped Team USA win a gold medal at the Pan-American Games in Mexico.
“It’s so different. I was the representative for our team in the press conference, and them talking in Spanish had me so confused. But our coaches definitely helped me and our translator made sure I knew what they were saying,” said Currie, a shortstop and third baseman with gap-to-gap power. “We were playing on carpet basically, because they didn’t have a real field. Even our security were taking videos of us and asking for pictures. And mind you, these guys had big guns on them.”
Currie’s dad is in the military, and her family has lived in five states. She was born in California and resided in New Mexico, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Arkansas.
“It definitely helps me make new friends,” Currie said. “I’m very easygoing. If I have to travel anywhere, it’s not a big thing. I don’t get sad over making new friends or leaving people.”
Currie comes from an athletic family. Her dad coached college baseball, and her uncles played Division I football and are now strength and conditioning coaches for boxing. Her cousin, Brooke Camacho, plays softball at Hawaii.
Currie started as a baseball player when she was three on a T-ball team coached by her dad. “Nobody was goofing around, because my dad didn’t play,” Currie said with a laugh.
After a few years, Currie’s parents thought switching to softball would benefit her more in the long run.
“They were like, ‘Well, don’t you want to have sleepovers with girls and hang out and have girlfriends?’” Currie said. “Because I was just hanging out with the boys. So then I transitioned to softball when I was eight or nine and loved it.”
Along with her softball success, Currie does her best to excel in the classroom.
“My grades have always been good,” she said. “I have always been top of my class, because if I don’t get good grades, I don’t get to play softball. So I kind of have no choice but to get good grades.”
Currie wants to become a criminal defense lawyer once she finishes school and is done playing softball.
“I always wanted to be a doctor, but then I looked into it and I realized I don’t like any of that stuff,” she said. “But I like a lot of true crimes and looking into people’s minds and serial killers and how they think. It’s kind of surreal that people even think about doing stuff like that.”
Currie’s biggest near-term goal is to help Team USA win another gold medal at the U-15 Women’s Softball World Cup June 27-July 5 in Italy.
“Long term, it’s definitely make it to college and have good NIL money and grades,” Currie said. “I want to do good in life in general, not just softball.”
