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Jennie Finch facts for kids
Jennie Lynn Finch Daigle (born September 3, 1980) 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 and the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also pitched for the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fastpitch from 2005 to 2010.
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. 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.
Time magazine described her as the most famous softball player in history. In 20
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Biography
Athens was a remarkable time for Jennie and her teammates, not least because of the unexpected and deeply felt loss of Sue Candrea, Coach Candrea's wife. She had been the team mom in Jennie's eyes for so many years, and she along with her teammates mourned their and their coach's loss. It was also Jennie's first Olympics and constantly reminded herself that this was the same game she'd played since childhood - just with more fans in the seats and on an international stage. The team dominated their competitors and won the gold. Sports Illustrated hailed them as the greatest team of all time. It was a heady experience for a young woman, and Jennie enjoyed every minute of it. The extreme honor of representing her country in international competition wasn't lost on Jennie. She loved wearing the USA letters in the Olympics best of all.
Jennie returned home from Athens and her popularity soared. She appeared on late-night shows with David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel; magazines including Glamour and Vanity Fair ran features on her. She was famous. She s
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Jennie Finch
American softball player (born 1980)
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. Finch was a member of the United States women's national softball team that won 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]
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-Centur
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