Matte Slavin Research Paper

“A group of dedicated girls” is how Junior Danielle Urbon described the softball team. Even though the team struggled all year long and didn’t win as many games as they expected, they loved the game. The team showed improvement from last season but still have much work to do to get to where they want to be. When interview-

During the summer of 1979, Doug Sulliman was part of a bumper crop of future NHLers chosen in the opening round of the league’s annual entry draft. Included were the likes of Mike Gartner, Rick Vaive, Ray Bourque, Paul Reinhart and Michel Goulet.

Fastpitch softball is a game of mental precision. It has its ups and downs. One game, you may feel as if you are unstoppable. While the following game may send you crying the entire car ride home. Even the rush of hitting a home run or the excitement of pitching a no-hitter, are no match for the mental games that always seem to follow a disappointing play. There are moments in each athlete’s softball career in which this disappointment becomes too much. It swallows them completely and consequently leaves them questioning why they ever started playing the game. It may even cause them to consider quitting.

Throughout Marcenia's childhood, she had always loved baseball more than any other activity (Hubbard 1, 2, 6). Every day at recess she would go over to the baseball field and insist on playing with the boys. One day after school, she got a life changing opportunity to learn how to becoming a real baseball player. This happened when Mr. Gabby Street, a manager for the Saint Louis Cardinals, hosted a free boys’ baseball camp. After tireless hours of practice, Marcenia finally succeeded in her quest to prove to Mr. Street how he should let her participate in his camp. Although she more than displayed her superior abilities, Marcenia’s father still did not approve of her being different than

She is the player who shows up early to practice and stays late to put in some extra batting practice. These actions have encouraged me as well as other teammates to work harder and had made us realize that one of the ways to make the team better is to individually make yourself better. Lastly, I have never met anyone who honors the game of softball more than Lauryn Banks. This year was my final season of softball. Our last game was a heartbreaking loss third round of playoffs. After the game, I was overwhelmed with emotions. The rest of my team was consumed with themselves, but not Lauryn. Lauryn came to me and embraced me while I cried. In this moment, I realized that Lauryn embodies what it means to be a teammate. She cares about her teammates more than for their batting average or how many errors they have made. She cares about them for them and the actual person they are. I feel this is a quality that will carry Lauryn far in her life. There is no better way of honoring the game than taking the lessons learned and applying them to their future

By now, Jennie’s life was focused on softball, though she did have a normal life outside the sport. She liked to shop, try on her mom’s makeup and hang out with her friends. In school, she was an excellent student. But softball consumed most of her free time. Every summer the sport brought her to a new part of the country for a national tournament.

Clendinnen explains why the captor wore the victim’s chalk and down of his kin and why he cried for the victim. She says that the captor did this because the captive was going to die a lonely death among strangers, since he was from outside Tenochtitlan. Even though, the captor’s kin ate from the captive, the captor didn’t do so, because he said he wouldn’t eat “his own flesh” since he too would probably die on the stone and others will eat his flesh in another city. Also, she interprets that the Aztecs didn’t necessarily believe that their were killing the warrior as he was before the rituals. Instead, all the preparation that had gone into this day, from the cutting of the warrior lock to the mock heart excisions, had made him more sacred, and changed him from a warrior into a victim. Once the warrior lock of hair was cut, it was believed that the warrior made his

Every city has that one basketball game that everyone goes to. The game that brings the crowd to their feet. That one game that brings thousands of people to the audience, and leave them with something to talk about for the remainder of their lives. Saginaw High vs Arthur Hill boys basketball game is filled with people from all over the state, filled with future NBA players and lots of drama. Saginaw High is located in the poorest and the most dangerous parts of Saginaw,Mi. Just imagine a neighborhood with only three houses on each block and sounds like Fourth of July firecrackers going off every night knowing someone just died. So every year, Saginaw

When I was playing travel softball for Angels Fastpitch in my second year of ten and under softball, this memoir began. My coach would not play me much because he said I was not good enough, he said I could not catch. He said many other things all were horrible. The emotions that came

Hard work never goes un-noticed, and although I did improve, I had acquired the label of ‘outfielder’. The position that wasn’t home to me, but I was forced to recognize as my spot on the field. My first year of Varsity softball arrived and I made it clear infield is where I wanted to be, but my coach’s confidence in me continued to lack to match the level of mine, along with the fact the returning third basemen was a veteran. And the outfield is where I was sent, yet again.

On Sunday May 15, 2016, The Stanford Cardinals suffered a major loss to the Washington Huskies. The Cardinals finish 13-35, but 0-24 in the PAC 12. The seniors had four runs all together but it wasn't enough. The defense was lacking having sophomore Hayley Snyder being pulled from the game. She was pulled because by the second inning, there have been five runs. Snyder was replaced with freshman Caroline Lee. Offensive wise, they were lacking but had no trouble getting on to the bases. The trouble was, no one seemed to get on homebase. The Cardinals catchers, Jessica Palaz led the team, and it was her game with Stanford. Her career record was the highest with 4 RBI’s in her senior year. The Cardinals were up by four in the bottom on the fourth,

Sophia Janssen Ms. Hill English 9 30 April 2018 Jennie Finch Jennie Finch states,” Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it’s free”! Jennie Finch is not just an Olympic softball player; she is a role model, and a leader for the sport of softball. She faced many setbacks in her early career, but her challenges helped her become better. Now she travels around the country talking, inspiring, and doing softball camps for girls all around the country. Jennie Finch had a normal childhood and would’ve never imagined that she would become a role model for younger children, an elite softball player and a person of influence.

Dr. J. Matthew Sleeth, his wife, Nancy, and their two children lived the life that most people would refer to as the American dream. A prestigious physician’s career, big house, and more material items than the small family knew what to do with. While working, Sleeth noticed an increase in chronic illnesses, and was brought to his breaking point treating children whose lives were cut short. A highly-educated man, Sleeth, outlined what every person could do to help preserve what God provided to sustain human life, not by doing more, but by doing less. The concepts that were highlighted included: conscious use of natural resources, materialistic views, improved personal habits, critical thinking processes, as well as what life would be like if

Neil has been coaching the Connecticut Charmer’s Showcase Softball team for 26 years. He has watched many including his one and only middle aged daughter clime the latter to success. Everyone in the competitive softball world that is driven to play for a well-known college softball team knows Neil. Not even an entire year goes by when the parents, players, and other coaches realize Neil is not just any ordinary coach. He only goes by one way and that’s his way.

The size of the ball, the speed of the pitch, and the distance from the mound to the plate all are variables of deciding which one is harder, softball or baseball? Debates break out all over the world with people fighting why softball is a sport made for girls. There is no real reason why the inventor of softball made it a bigger ball just for girls, but the difference is clearly noticeable. Studies show that most professional baseball players have a difficulty hitting from a softball pitcher. In order to prove this study, there must be drawbacks that make these softball players able to blow by a fastball by some of the greatest hitters.