INTHEBLACK December - January 2022 - Magazine - Page 59
ONE PIECE OF ADVICE
“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.”
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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 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.
“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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