Jennie Finch
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Jennie Lynn Finch Daigle (born September 3, 1980[1]) is an American former softball player. She played for the Arizona Wildcats softball team from 1999 to 2002, where she won the 2001 Women's College World Series and was named collegiate All-American. Later she led the United States women's national softball team to the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics[2] and the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[3] She also pitched for the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fastpitch from 2005 to 2010.[4]
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Birth name | Jennie Lynn Finch | |||||||||||||||||
Full name | Jennie Lynn Finch Daigle | |||||||||||||||||
National team | Team USA | |||||||||||||||||
Born | (1980-09-03) September 3, 1980 (age 43)[1] La Mirada, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Casey Daigle | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Softball | |||||||||||||||||
Position | Pitcher | |||||||||||||||||
University team | Arizona Wildcats | |||||||||||||||||
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Finch is ranked in several categories for both the Wildcats in the Pac-12 Conference and the NCAA Division I, where she was named #2 Greatest College Softball Player.[5] She is the National Pro Fastpitch career leader in WHIP and is a National Softball Hall of Fame inductee. She has been ranked by Tucson, Arizona sportswriters as the #1 Best Arizona Wildcats Softball Player; picked the #5 Best NCAA Pitcher All-Time and was chosen by the Pac-12 for the All-Century Team as a pitcher.[6][7][8]
Time magazine described her as the most famous softball player in history.[3] In 2010, Finch retired from softball to focus on her family. In August 2011, she started working at ESPN as a color commentator for National Pro Fastpitch and college softball games.[9][10]