Top 3 All Time Softball Players
- Dot Richardson- At age 13(1974), she played her first ASA Women's Fast Pitch National Championship, which makes her the youngest softball player in ASA history to play in a Women's Fast Pitch National Championship. She started her career in 1972, playing for Union Pack Jets in Orlando. Between 1972 and 2000, Richardson won All-American honors 15 times, played on 10 championship teams, won the Erv Lind Award(top defensive player in Women's Major National Championship) 7 times, won 2 Olympic Gold Medals, was a member of 5 Pan American teams, and 4 ISF World Championship Teams.
2. Lisa Fernandez- One of the five Bruins to play on the 1996 gold medal winning US Olympic Team and one of the six Bruins included on the active roster for the gold medal winning team of 2000. She was the top hitter and pitcher in the tournament and led the team to a third consecutive gold medal in 2004 in Athens, Greece where she posted a .545 batting average which was a new record for the Olympic tournament.
3. Jennie Finch- She is arguably the most famous softball player of all time. She won a gold medal as a pitcher for the team USA in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Finch played softball for the University of Arizona. While she was there, she was a three time All-American pitcher and first-baseman and "Honda Award" winner for the player of the year as a member of the Wildcat softball team. The University of Arizona retired her number (27) on May 9, 2003 at Hillenbrand stadium. She had 24 wins in her freshman season, 29 wins in her sophomore season, 32 wins, no losses, in her junior season to set an NCAA record, and 24 wins in her senior season, to make a total of 109 victories which was the twelth at the time. While at the University of Arizona, Finch also also struck out a total of 1028 batters, the 23rd most at the time. Finch had a 2-0 win/loss record in the 2004, Athens, Greece, Summer Olympics, striking out 13 batters in eight innings while giving up only one hit, one walk, and no runs at all. Her pitching helped lead the American team to the gold medal.
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