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| Birth name | Jennie Lynn Finch | |||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Jennie Lynn Finch-Daigle | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | Team USA | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 3, 1980[1] La Mirada, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Casey Daigle | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Softball | |||||||||||||||||
| Position | Pitcher | |||||||||||||||||
| University team | Arizona Wildcats | |||||||||||||||||
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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. 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-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]
- ^ a b "Jennie Lynn Finch". California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
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- ^ "Perfect 10: Finch Leads Impressive List of Softball Greats". Thisistucson.com. August 14, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
- ^ "The 11 Best College Softball Pitchers of All Time". Ncaa.com. August 18, 2020. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
- ^ "Pac-12 Sports Report Announces All-Century Softball Squad". Pac-12.com. April 16, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
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