Jennie Finch Stats, Family, Hometown, Childhood, College, Pitching Speed

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.

Jennie Finch Stats

Jennie Finch compiled a career record of 48 wins and 8 losses in her 91-game career with the Chicago Bandits. She began playing during the 2005 season and last took the field during the 2010 campaign.

Jennie Finch Family

Jennie is the youngest of Bev and Doug Finch’s three children.

Her parents signed her up for her first t-ball league at age 5. ”I’ve been playing the game since I was five years old, so my whole life has sort of revolved around the sport,” she said in 2010

Ultimately, Finch doesn’t care whether her three children, Ace Shane, 8, Diesel Dean, 3, and Paisley Faye, 19 months, decide to choose sports as a career. “I just want them to be passionate about what they do,” she says

Jennie Finch Hometown

Jennie Finch was born on September 3, 1980, in La Mirada, California, and grew up in a close-knit family. She is the youngest of Doug and Bev Finch’s three children. Family is important to Jennie and she credits them for much of her success.

Jennie Finch Childhood

Jennie Finch grew up in California with a family that deeply loved baseball. Her mother was a huge Dodgers fan, she watched her brothers grow up playing baseball, and she could not have been more excited when her father signed her up for t-ball around her fifth birthday.

Jennie Finch College

Former All-American Jennie Finch-Daigle will serve as a volunteer coach for the Cowgirls in 2014, working with the pitchers. Finch, a native of La Mirada

Jennie Finch Pitching Speed

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