What is Team USA? Team USA is the U.S softball team. They compete in the summer olympics, and the world championship. This team consists of 18 talented women. They won the silver medal in the 2008 Olympics. Who are some of the 2008 players? One of the women on the 2008 softball team was Monica Abbott. Monica Abbott was number 14 for the USA team. She was one of the pitcher. Monica Abbott grew up in Salinas California. When she was 23 years old she became a member on the USA softball team. Monica went to college at the University of Tennessee. She was a 2008 Olympic silver medalist. In the Olympic she also had a 3-0 record in 24 innings pitched while striking out 32 batters. In the World Championship she had 2-0 record in 12 innings and in the 12 innings she strook out 16. Laura Berg was also on the U.S team. Number 44 playing in the outfield. She grew up in Santa Fe Springs in California. She was 33 when she played for the U.S team. Laura went to Fresno State for college. She was a 2008 silver medalist. She played in seven games, she hit 3 for 6 with one RBI and two runs scored. In the WBSC World Championship in 2006 she got the Gold medal. In the 2006 World Championship she hit 9 for 26 and a perfect …show more content…
fielding percentage. In the 2002 world championship Laura won the Gold medal and made eight starts with six hits. In the same game had seven RBIs. Number 27 Jennie Finch was the pitcher for the U.S team.
She grew up in La Mirada. She went to college at the University of Arizona. They say that Jennie Finch is arguably the most famous softball player of all time. In the 2004 summer olympics she won the gold medal for pitching. Jennie Finch was an All- CIF Div. II in softball and an All Suburban league. Thi was in her sophomore, this is such a great honor. During her college career Jennie Finch struck out 1,028 people. The next year she was named MVP. “ Jennie was a great hitter, but no one could touch her as a pitcher.” (Jennie Finch Biography) In her four years she went 50-12 with 6 perfect games. She pitched 13 no hitters. Her ERA(Earned Run Average) was 0.15, and in 445 innings Jennie fanned 784
hitter. Lisa Fernandez was a pitcher for the 2008 USA team. She threw and batted right handed. She was a three time olympic gold medalist. She was also a four time world champion. Lisa set a olympic record for striking out 25 people. In the same game she had set an ERA(Earned Run Average) record of 0.47.
baseball career as a top MLB prospect after playing for Team USA in the 1996 Summer Olympics in
She’s a great player, who holds multiple records and has played professional softball for a decade. She became the first player to accumulate 300 career hits in 2014 and set a enduring league record for hits in 2011. She’s also tied second in amount of stolen bases. She’s also overall a really great person. She has a foundation, the Natasha Watley Foundation, which promotes active and healthy lifestyle choices for all age groups and cultures who are ready to make a difference. It encourages softball as an alternative outlet of daily stressors and hosts a 5k walk in support of the cause. She puts a focus on the social issues that affect women. She’s opening doors and changing lives. She wants to make softball a sport for
They are the fastball, four seam, screwball, curveball, riseball, dropball, and changeup. She left Los Angeles County after she graduated and went on to play for Tucson, Arizona on a scholarship chosen over the 23 other scholarships offered to her. It was for going to Arizona that she was offered a major spot to become the captain of the Arizona softball team during her period of softball. This is where she became a dominant player for a known softball program. That is one of the main reasons why she was well known throughout her college years. She became well known while she was in high school at La Mirada High School. In the 2004 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Finch helped the US team dominate the competition and get a gold medal. This international performance made her beginning fame farther than just with the Arizona Wildcats. Afterwards, she began to appear on television shows promoting softball and having interviews on how she began her
Jackie played baseball in 1944 for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro American League where he caught the eye of Clyde Sukeforth, a scout working for Branch Rickey.
Jackie Robinson overcame many struggles in life such as being included in the civil rights movement, facing discrimination, and he achieved being the first black man in major league baseball. He was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia on Hadley Ferry Road. It is a blue-collar town of about 10,000 people. Jackie Robinson became the first black player in the major leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Even though he achieved this major goal he still had trouble getting there. He and his siblings were raised by his single mother. Jackie attended Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College. He was a great athlete and played many sports. He played football, basketball, track, and of course baseball. He left school in 1941, worked as an athletic director and played semiprofessional football for the Honolulu Bears before being drafted to the Army in 1942. While he was in the army he became close friends with Joe Louis. The heavyweight used his popularity to protest about the delayed entry of black soldiers. Two years later he got the honor to be second lieutenant in 1943. After an accident where he refused to sit in the back of an unsegregated bus, military police arrested Robinson. A duty officer requested this and then later he requested that Jackie should be court martialed. Since this happened Jackie was not allowed to be deployed overseas to the World War II. He never saw combat during the war. Jackie left the Army with an honorable discharge.
While the games of baseball and softball each have many fans, many players prefer to play one or the other but not both. Although baseball and softball are similar in many ways, they have some notable differences. The pace with which each game is played, the rules of each, and the level of leagues are different for each.
Over the past fifteen to twenty years women's fastpitch softball popularity has continued to grow and spread internationally. By the mid-1990s it was played in more than 85 countries under the eye of the International Softball Federation (ISF). It has become increasingly popular among women at the youth and collegiate levels. More than 630 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) member institutions sponsor women's softball programs, and national championships for women are held in all three NCAA sports divisions (Encarta, 1998). In 1991 women's fastpitch softball was selected to debut as a medal sport in the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Columbia, Georgia. The U.S. won the gold medal in the 1996 Olympic Games due to a good defense and great hitters on the team. Even though defense and pitching are critical and vital parts of the game, a successful team must have an effective offense to win the game. Among all the standout hitters on the U.S. Olympic team, two of the best are Dot Richardson and Lisa Fernadez. Both Lisa and Dot have picture-perfect swings, which have made them very productive throughout their careers. Today there is a women's professional fastpitch softball league. Interest in the Women's Professional Softball League (WPSL) has been increasing for the last three years and continues to grow each year.
Texas Tech has proven that hitting a softball is way harder to hit than a baseball. A softball pitcher is very close to you at the pitcher's mound. If you are in the batter's box it feels like they are right on top of you especially since most softball pitchers can be up to about 6 feet in height. It is scientifically proven that a softball player has less time to react to the ball because of the distance and speed of the pitch. Also, softball pitchers not only throw hard, but they also throw tricky pitches to hit. The pitch that rises upwards is called a rise ball. When this pitch comes in, most coaches will say just let it go instead of risking this pitch. Baseball players throw breaking balls, but unlike in softball they don't suddenly leap up right as you're going to swing at it. Pitchers in softball can also throw a curve ball that curves away from the batter but still in the strike zone. A screw ball moves closer to the batter. Same as a curve ball it is still in the strike zone just right on the edge of it. Softball players throw many more change ups than in baseball. Change ups catch the player off guard causing them to swing and become frustrated with themselves. As you can tell softball pitchers don't mess around using every inch of the plate to pitch the ball and strike the batter
Jennie Lynn Finch is an American, former collegiate All-American and medal winning Olympian, retired 2-time pro All-Star, right-handed hitting softball pitcher, and first baseman.Jennie was born on september, 3 1980.Her parents names are Doug finch, and Bev finch.Jennie was originally from La Mirada, California, but now lives sulphur, Louisiana,on a farm.
The WWII time period was a hard time for American families. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League helped to change the rights of women in the industrial world. Men took care of their responsibilities and served their time in war, but in the meantime, the world-winning women of the AAGPBL stormed the country by surprise. This league was a major success in our history and will leave its legacy among baseball fans for years to come.
I have played softball for four years, Softball has always come to me naturally. It was my third year playing when I moved to Friendswood, I was new to everything. During this year I met a girl named Shaye Brockwell. She was really nice to me and we hung out many times. Then her dad started coaching and I got on their team the next year and everything changed.
Frantz, Chris. A. The "Timeline: Women in Sports." Infoplease/Pearson Education, 2007. Web.
When you think of a coach, you may think of someone who schedules practice, assigns positions for your team, or makes you run laps for showing up late. Not as often do you think of your coach as your hero, but my softball coach, Ron Hill, goes above and beyond. He not only teaches my team about the sport of softball, but he stresses the importance of becoming a better person through teamwork, responsibility, commitment, and leadership. He is not only a softball coach, but a Michigan native, working father, and my Michigan hero.
Canada boasts both female and male national teams for soccer. However, only one of those teams has shown success in recent years while the other one has little to no success at all. The female Canadian National team have become a success story in Canada and their fame really exploded following the 2012 London summer Olympic games. It was the first time Canada has won any traditional team medals since winning silver at the 1936 games (SOURCE). Currently the Canadian women are ranked 7th according to the FIFA ranking and have always been successful in the World cup. They have also won multiple medals in both CONCACAF and the PanAmerican games.
Women are being allowed to participate now, including professional leagues such as the Women’s National Basketball Association, and the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Women in sports, especially softball and basketball, have become a big-time business. World War II is when the basis of women’s professional sports began. While the men were overseas fighting the war against the Nazis and Germans, the women entertained the people who stayed back by playing baseball.