Panthers On The Run
Norfolk Junior High
By Neleigh Brown
Little Bo Peep’s famous sheeps past away!
Little Bo Peep’s famous sheeps past away! By: Neleigh Brown
Jennie Finch USA Softball Player
Jennie Finch was a pro softball player for the Chicago Bandits and the USA team. She retired in 2010, so she could focus on her family. She married Casey Daigle, a MLB Pitcher, in 2005, and they have two boys and one girl.
Jennie won the 12u and the 14u national ASA tournament and that was just the start of her career. Finch made the varsity softball team as a freshman in high school and lettered all four years, and this was just the start of her career. She had a record of 50-12, 6 perfect games, 13 no-hitters, a .15 ERA,/Earned Run Average, and she also had 784 Ks or strikeouts. Colleges everywhere wanted her on their team, but she finally chose the University of Arizona. In Arizona she played 1st base and pitcher. They won the nationals in 2001 with the help of Julie Giordano, Toni Mascarenas, and Lauren Bauer. She won the Most Outstanding Female Senior Student of the Year award, and the WCWS most outstanding player of the year, along with many other awards.
In the years after college, she played for the Chicago Bandits and in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics before it was eliminated. She threw 49 strikeouts and only allowed nine hits for the USA in 2007. She also had three children Ace Shane, 6-years-old,one-year-old Diesel Dean, and Paisley Faye, one month old. She has her own softball academy in Flemington, New Jersey, and conducts softball camps all over the country.