Jennie Finch

Jennie Finch in her USA uniform. (http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/)

Jennie Finch has been my hero ever since I was a really young girl playing softball. The first time I saw her playing, I immediately knew she would be my hero because of her incredible softball skills. They were unbelievably amazing! I hope someday I will be as great and as famous as a player as she is today.

Jennie is a professional softball player. She went to La Mirada High School, where she made varsity all four years in softball, and also two times in both volleyball and basketball. In softball she was an All-CIF Div. 11 and an All-Suburban League selection in her sophomore year, which was an excellent honor. In high school she had a career total of 109 victories which were the 12th most at that moment. Jennie got accepted to the University of Arizona. She was called a three time All-American pitcher. Her salary is $2,000,000 a year.

Jennie Finch pitching. (http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Finch)

Jennie Finch was born on September 3, 1980, in La Mirada, California. Jennie joined L'il Miss T-Ball, which was her first league, when she was five years old. She made the varsity team for softball as a freshman at La Mirada High School. The next year Jennie started to build up an impressive list on honors, including All-Suburban League, All-CIF Division II, and Whittier Daily News All-Area. Then as a junior she was chosen to be a league MVP. Then, she led a team to win the ASA 18-and-under championship in the summer of 1997. She was an influence the first year at the University of Arizona. Her team, the Wildcats, entered the 1999 season with coach Mike Candera. She ended her sophomore year with a .327 batting average. Finch hit sixteen home runs on the Wildcats. With a total record of 29-2 and a .79 ERA. Finch pitched three no-hitters in a row in the Regional Final, blanking Tennessee Tech, Drake and Nebraska. Through the regular season she bombed eleven home runs and fifty-seven RBIs. She established the Honda Softball Award as the National Player of the Year, a first-team as an all American. Finch was called the Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year. She led the Phoenix Storm to the ASA Major National Championship. Finch's USA Blue Team achieved the gold medal at the Pan Am Qualifier in Maracay, Venezuela. Softball was her life, and she truly loved it.

Jennie Finch. (http://search.yahoo.com/search)

Almost every team that Jennie Finch was on, she helped lead to win a championship, CIF or some other major competitive title. Many softball players look up to her, becasue she is such an amazing softball player. I hope to be as great a softball player as she is. However, besides softball she was on a game show to help charity.

My dream is to become as talented a softball player as she is. I hope to achieve this by improving my softball skills now in high school. At practices and games I just have to pay full attention, listen to my coaches, and try to improve my skills every day. When I am done with high school I hope to get into USC and get a softball scholarship. Once I am out of college, I hope my skills are as amazing as Jennie Finch's or even better. I want to be as famous as she is.