How fast did Jennie Finch throw? Who is Jennie Finch’s niece?

Jennie Lynn Finch Daigle was born on September 3, 1980, and 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.

Later she led the United States women’s national softball team to the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

She also pitched for the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fastpitch from 2005 to 2010.

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.

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.

Time magazine described her as the most famous softball player in history. 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.

How fast did Jennie Finch throw?

Jennie’s fastest pitch in softball is cited to be 90 miles per hour. Her average fastball is measured at 65 miles per hour

Softball legend Jennie Finch was an All-American pitcher with a 72-mile-per-hour fastball at the University of Arizona. She won Olympic gold in Athens in 2004, silver in Beijing in 2008, and played for the Chicago Bandits in the National Pro Fastpitch league.

Who is Jennie Finch’s niece?

Softball notebook: Malaya Majam-Finch, the niece of legendary Jennie Finch, is a force. Fullerton High softball star Malaya Majam-Finch is dominating at the plate and in the circle during her freshman season.

When she was younger, Malaya Majam-Finch would toddle into the living room of her grandparents’ quaint house in La Mirada and find, essentially, an open-air trophy case.

There were two Honda Sports Awards for softball, given annually to the best college female athlete in each sport. A memento of an NCAA national championship. A heap of old gloves. All a shrine to Aunt Jennie.

Yes, Majam-Finch’s aunt: that Jennie Finch, former All-American at Arizona. One of the most famous players in softball history. The pitcher who once made Albert Pujols look silly.

From a young age, Majam-Finch begged her grandpa Doug to give her pitching lessons. She ate it up, her father, Shane, Finch’s brother, said with a grin. Studying statistics. Constantly evaluating herself against the trajectory of an all-time great.

“It really fuels me to want to push to become like her and compete at that stage,” Majam-Finch said. “It helps a lot in the process of building that fire and staying motivated.”

Now a 14-year-old freshman at Fullerton High, Majam-Finch is building a legacy as a dominant two-way player who stands alone from the shine in her grandparents’ living room. Outfielders take a few steps back when she steps to the plate, and opposing parents chuckle in amazement at the crack of her fastball against the catcher’s mitt. She is an imposing 5-foot-10, broad-shouldered, age more of a trick than a true reflection of her physicality and mentality.

In a win over Brea Olinda on Friday, she continued a dominant season with a six-inning masterpiece in the circle: 10 strikeouts, one hit given up, and no runs. She’s hitting .461 and has not surrendered an earned run in 42 innings.

“She’s lived up to every expectation that we have,” coach Trevor Holton said.

Expectation is a tricky thing when your aunt is Jennie Finch. At one point this season, another coach told Holton — to his memory — “Yeah, she’s good. She’s Jennie Finch’s niece.”

The sentiment was clear: Of course, she’s this good. Look at her aunt. So Majam-Finch is caught between paths — trying to emulate that aunt’s trek to greatness while paving her own route.

Does she want people to know she’s Jennie Finch’s niece? Majam-Finch tilted her head at the question after the Brea Olinda game, smiling slightly.

“I wouldn’t say I don’t,” she said. “But it doesn’t necessarily help too much. I feel like just being myself, and having enough to prove, I think my performance can speak for myself most of the time.”

It has spoken well enough so far.