Softball Essay

Christmas stopped coming. Not literally, but the feeling of Christmas did. I sometimes could still feel the days leading up to something, but at seventeen, when Christmas Day rolled around, I did not spring out of bed and race Kasey down the stairs. Instead, when she came into my room to shake me awake at an ungodly hour, I pushed her off and mumbled to wake our parents so I could sleep another hour or two. Kasey is a persistent girl, so she did not let me rest. She left my room but yelled up the

Astonishingly, sexism still exists in 2016 and yet in 2002, columnist Stephen Moore wrote allowing women to play in March Madness is “annoying” and the tournament would be better without them (McDonagh & Pappano, page 237). He believes women intrude and ruin “precious moments of bonding” (McDonagh & Pappano, page 237). This all begins with the idea men are better than women. These mindsets believe men have superior talent and therefor deserve to have their own sports. They should not have to share

Jennie Finch once said, “When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.” Jennie Finch is a big role model for me because of how far she’s made it in softball. I’ve been playing softball since I was four-years-old. I grew up playing it every day, as much as I could. I never played a certain position and stuck with it. My coaches have always played me as utility, but my main position is shortstop. In spring, I will be playing shortstop for varsity. Last year, I pitched for

as a motivational speech for their sports team, including my softball coaches. As a softball player you face a lot of adversity in the sport. There are times when you are in a hitting slump and can not hit a ball for 3 straight games, or even times when you make routine mistakes on the field. Through all of this it is difficult not to get down on yourself and it is even harder to erase that self-doubt you create in your head. Softball is a fast-paced sport, therefore it is important to slow the game

everything including the reason why some even attend college. There are a lot of different sports students can play in college but there is none harder than baseball… or is it softball? There has been a long time debate about which sport is harder. Is hitting a baseball the hardest thing to do in sports or is hitting a fast pitch softball the hardest thing in sports to do? Ted Williams the famous baseball player once said “the toughest thing in sports is hitting a round ball with a round bat”. He was definitely

Although men and women’s basketball are closer to being equal than softball and baseball, the leagues are still separate. America has a women’s league and a men’s league and never the two shall meet. A woman is not allowed in the NBA since she has the WNBA. The separation is strong, obvious, and seemingly permanent. Like basketball, they created softball to play indoors during the winter. The game earned the name softball and due to its easier properties was often “regarded as baseball’s stepchild”

November 24TH, 1887, football fans used boxing gloves and broomsticks to play the very first, official, game of softball. Just a little over four decades earlier, Alexander Cartwright, the “father of baseball” formalized the rules, or codes, of “townball”. What is “townball”? Who exactly is Alexander Cartwright? Moreover, what on earth does this have to do with fast-pitch softball? These are all valid questions you may or, may not have right now. Townball or base are both older colloquial terms

a sacrificial life, why He died and rose. Because of this, I am a daughter of the King, forever loved, and I trust that whatever comes my way in life will ultimately glorify my Creator. I was not born a softball player, but I was not far off. Both my dad and grandpa played men’s fastpitch softball, and so did my

fulfilled. She wasn’t getting the positions or play time she wanted. For her softball was something she thought she was going to play until the end of college. She struggled with the decision to stop because she had dedicated so many years to softball and really couldn’t imagine life without it. Ultimately she decided to leave the team, and with a short explanation her family quickly understood. After putting an end to her softball career, she went through formal sorority recruitment and was inducted into

After my second visit to Tufts attending classes and spending additional time with the softball players and coaches, I knew it was a great fit for me and that I could succeed and contribute to the university. I started the application process. At the same time, it was finals week at school. I received a text from Coach Milligan regarding my application and she informed me everyone in the