Larissa Franklin (born March 26, 1993) is a Canadian Olympic softball player.

Career

Franklin joined

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in 2011, competing in the 2011 WBSC Junior Women's World Championship in Cape Town, South Africa, where her team finished fifth. After joining the senior team in 2013, Franklin competed in the World Cup of Softball and the WBSC Americas Qualifier, winning a silver medal with her team. Franklin has continued playing for Canada, competing in international events such as the 2014, 2016 and 2018 WBSC Women's Softball World Championships, where she won bronze in the latter two events. In 2015, she and her team competed at the

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in Toronto, where they won gold, and in the

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in Lima, where they won silver. In June 2021, Franklin was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team. Franklin represented Canada at the

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and won a bronze medal.

Personal life

Franklin is openly lesbian.

References

External links

Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons bio

Western Kentucky Lady Toppers bio
1993 births Living people Canadian softball players Competitors at the 2022 World Games Softball players at the 2015 Pan American Games Softball players at the 2019 Pan American Games Softball players at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada People from Maple Ridge, British Columbia Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons athletes Western Kentucky Lady Toppers softball players Softball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic softball players for Canada Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in softball Canadian lesbian sportswomen LGBT softball players Pan American Games medalists in softball 21st-century Canadian sportswomen 21st-century Canadian LGBT people {{Canada-softball-bio-stub