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Born Myrle Vernon King in Walla Walla, Washington, he played softball for much of his early life, and turned his attention to the sport full-time following an enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps. He first assembled his four-man touring team , known as "The King and His Court", in 1946 and took on all comers, first in the Pacific Northwest and ...
Danielle Elaine Lawrie (born April 11, 1987) [1] is a Canadian, former collegiate All-American, medal-winning Olympian, professional All-Star softball pitcher and current sports commentator. Lawrie played college softball at Washington , in which she was part of the 2009 Women's College World Series championship team and was named Most ...
By contrast, White spent most of his U.S. playing career in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, attending and graduating from the local Mount Mercy University and marrying a local woman. He became a U.S. citizen in 1994. In softball, White won 70 games in world championship tournaments between 1990 and 2006, more than any other men's pitcher in that period.
She earned Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honors on four occasions in 2022, the most by any pitcher in the conference. She led the conference with 11.58 strikeouts per seven innings, 12 shutouts and 313 strikeouts. She became the third pitcher in program history to surpass 300 strikeouts in a season following Lauren Bay and Melanie Roche. [1]
Megan Ki'llani Faraimo (born July 14, 2000) is an American professional softball pitcher for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican Softball League.She played college softball at UCLA from 2019 to 2023, where she was named a three-time All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA).
A righthanded pitcher pushes off with her right leg and transfers her weight to her left leg." [2] The underhand pitch was the original baseball pitch. Originally created as a sport for baseball players to maintain dexterity in the off season, softball gained so much popularity, it became its own sport.
Jennifer Darlene Ritter (born June 1, 1984) is an American, former collegiate All-American, retired softball pitcher and current sports commentator. She played college softball and was a starting pitcher for the Michigan Wolverines softball from 2003 to 2006 and led them to the 2005 Women's College World Series championship.
Jessica Burroughs (born November 2, 1993) is an American former collegiate All-American professional softball pitcher. [2] [3] She played college softball at Florida State, being named a four-time all-conference and back-to-back Pitcher of the Year in her last two seasons.