Jennie Finch, USA Olympic Gold Medal Softball Pitcher
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we look back to April of 2018, Episode 100 of the Sports Spectrum podcast with softball legend Jennie Finch.
Jennie is a two-time U.S. Olympic softball player. She won a gold medal in 2004 and a silver in 2008. The seven-time USA Softball world champion went to the University of Arizona, where she was a picture of pure dominance. She went 32-0 her junior year with an ERA of 0.54, 279 strikeouts and a national championship. For her four-year college career, she went 119-16, with an ERA of 1.08 and 1,028 strikeouts. She was named by the NCAA as the No. 2 greatest college softball player.
In 2017, Finch was named the youth softball ambassador by Major League Baseball and despite retiring in 2011, she continues to teach young girls about the game. She holds Jennie Finch Softball Camps across the U.S. and has a softball academy at Diamond Nation in Flemington, N.J., and she also hosts the Jennie Finch World Series in Louisiana.
Jennie's faith in the Lord is strong and she shares on this portion of the podcast, about where that faith was birthed in her.
You can listen to the entire interview with Jennie from Episode 100 here or by searching her name on iTunes/Apple, Spotify or anywhere podcasts are listened to.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of Sports Spectrums podcast. |
| 0:23.7 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.7 | Thanks for being here with us on the show today. |
| 0:27.4 | Really excited to bring back a portion of an interview we did back in April of 2018 with USA gold |
| 0:34.9 | metal softball pitching legend Jenny Finch.itching Legend, Jenny Finch. |
| 0:38.3 | And some might call Jenny Finch the greatest softball player |
| 0:41.9 | of all time. |
| 0:43.0 | And she is definitely what you would call an ambassador |
| 0:47.0 | for the sport of softball. |
| 0:49.1 | And she's actually, that is one of her titles, |
| 0:51.2 | Youth Softball Ambassador for major league baseball. |
| 0:55.1 | And she obviously does a lot of other things promoting her Jenny Finch softball camps |
| 1:00.5 | across the United States, hosting the Jenny Finch World Series in Louisiana. |
| 1:05.2 | This is one of the great athletes of our time and maybe the most dominant softball player we've ever seen. In her four-year |
| 1:13.9 | college career, Arizona, she went 119 and 16, had an ERA of 1.08 and 1,08 and 1,028 strikeouts |
| 1:21.7 | in four years. Think about that for a second. She was named by the NCAA as the number two |
| 1:26.2 | greatest college softball player of all time, |
| 1:29.3 | won a gold medal in 2004 and a silver medal in 2008 for USA softball. And it was a privilege and |
| 1:37.0 | an honor to talk to her on our 100th episode. It was episode number 100. And we love talking |
| 1:43.2 | to Jenny about softball, about identity, about her faith in the |
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