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Softball Star Finch To Retire; Icon of U.S. Team To Focus On Family
Topic Started: Tuesday Jul 20 2010, 02:56 PM (315 Views)
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Olympic gold medalist Jennie Finch announced Tuesday that she will retire next month, bringing an end to a 10-year career in which she helped softball blossom in the United States.

The dominating pitcher will play her final games with the U.S. national team this week at the World Cup of Softball in Oklahoma City. She'll then finish the rest of the National Pro Fastpitch season with the Chicago Bandits before calling it quits at the age of 29 to focus on her family.

The 6-foot-2 Finch was a standout at Arizona before becoming an icon with the U.S. team, going 32-0 her junior year and putting together 60 consecutive wins -- both NCAA records. She won gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and silver four years later in Beijing.

Earlier this month, she helped the United States win its seventh straight world championship.

"This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed," Finch said in an interview with The Associated Press. "The opportunities that I'd be able to enjoy and appreciate and be a part of, it's been incredible."

Finch was much more than a pretty face as she took over Lisa Fernandez as the most-recognized player in a sport enjoying growing popularity. Her 60-game run stretched nearly two years and included the 2001 WCWS title, a dominance that carried over to the national team, where she combined with the likes of Fernandez and Cat Osterman to make up the world's best pitching rotation through the early part of the decade.


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