Jennie Finch

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She was the star pitcher on the Gold Medal 2004 Olympic women's softball team

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Jennie has been playing softball since she was five years old and has been pitching since she was eight. At La Mirada High School, Finch lettered four times in softball, and twice each in both, basketball and volleyball (As a senior,she was the captain of all three sports.)

Jennie Finch then played softball for The University of Arizona. She was a three-time All-American p/1b and Honda Award winner for the Player of the Year as a member of the Wildcat softball team.

Jennie came to prominence when she defeated Anna Kournikova in an ESPN online poll as the most attractive female athlete. She has appeared on various talk shows promoting softball and the US Olympic Team, and also hosts a segment on This Week in Baseball. Her TWIB segment often features her pitching to major-league baseball players, using a softball and pitching from the same distance she would in a softball game. Finch usually strikes out the baseball players; her fastball of 71 mph is equivalent to a fastball of nearly 100 mph in baseball, where the pitcher's rubber is about 20 feet farther away than in softball.

Finch was offered a lucrative contract to appear naked for men's magazine Playboy, but commented to the press on August 14, 2004 that such an offer wasn't going to tempt her. She commented that she'd "rather be a role model for young girls." She said that muscles on women are beautiful, but my personal decision is to stay away from those things; to stay away from that."

Finch wears the number "27" in honor of her parents, who had their first date on the 27th.  Currently, she pitches for the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fastpitch Softball League. She was named the NPF's co-pitcher of the year in 2005, sharing the award with teammate Lauren Bay.

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