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Where did Jennie Finch meet her husband? What does Jennie Finch do now?

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Jennie Lynn Finch Daigle was born on September 3, 1980, and is an American former softball player.

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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.

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National Fastpitch Coaches Association

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.

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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.

Where did Jennie Finch meet her husband?

In 2005 Jennie Finch married Houston Astros pitcher Casey Daigle. The pair first met in 2002 while Finch was playing for the University of Arizona and Daigle was in Tucson, Arizona, for spring training with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

What does Jennie Finch do now?

Aside her time as an Olympian, Finch is a youth ambassador for Major League Baseball, while Mendoza gets to participate in the broadcast booth. For both of them, collegiate sports were the ultimate base. “Jess and I are both thankful for getting to participate in sports in equity in a man’s world.


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