The 11 best NCAA softball pitchers of all time
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- NCAA.com's Michella Chester takes a look at 11 of the best pitchers in NCAA softball history, including Cat Osterman, Monica Abbott and Jennie Finch.
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Jennie Finch is the reason why the sport blew up on the national level. The main reason ESPN broadcasts as many games as they do.
Totally agree... Jennie and then Taryn Mowett (spelling?) really brought college softball way more mainstream. I was a pitcher and played DII 2007-2010; grew up watching and idolizing these women. ♥️ I miss it so much. Watching the WCWS currently and told my husband I can literally still smell the softball field when I’m watching and thinking about playing.
I agree She’s amazing.
She was the first softball player I ever knew.
Ricketts also had a career batting average in the .340's and hit nearly 50 home runs in college. She was/is still a beast.
Exactly what I was thinking , Ricketts did it all , and did it all great . An alternate on the U.S. team , I'm guessing she made the trip to Tokyo .
The Fernández change up was an ankle breaker. 🤯🤯🤯
Nasty and it was perfect strikes
It's amazing when you think that Osterman and Abbott, the two most dominant pitchers in the history of the sport, played in the same seasons in 2005 and 2006. And Hollowell was also pitching at that time.
My sister meet her
I love Jennie Finch. I did a report on her for school. I love her book too!
great list but what about Debbie Doom? UCLA 1982-85, 3x national champion, 73 wins, 16 losses, .29 era
Debbie doom sounds like a DC comic villain
Awesome name
Yeah her bent over stare was nasty...
A early pitching powerhouse that was def over looked!
I was a kid the first time I saw Debbie Doom pitch. I'd never heard of fast pitch and sat there with my jaw on the floor watching that. I've been hooked since.
Tracy Compton of UCLA. In 1984 Compton went 20-3 with a 0.29 ERA in 175 innings. She struck out 172 batters that season. Then in 1985, Compton went 20-4 with a 0.08 ERA in 167 1/3 innings with 172 strikeouts.
I was lucky enough to see both Fernandez and Finch pitch in Italy on there way to the 2004 games in Athens. Finch had great stuff and she was over-powering. Fernandez just had so much junk (movement) on her pitches and I've never seen a ball do that much sorcery. I could not make wiffle balls move the way Fernandez did.
4-time 1st Team All-American Amanda Scott of Fresno State who beat Nancy Evans and Courtney Blades for the national title in 1998, twice the ERA statistical champ, and NCAA record for the most consecutive innings without an earned run. Angela Tincher (Virginia Tech) who NO HIT the US Olympic team. UMass pitcher Danielle Henderson 1996 Olympic team.
Montana Fouts probably number one pitcher this 2021 season!
Im Confused why they didnt talk about G juarez she is super good and deserving of the atención
Montana was the BEST PITCHER OF 2021!!! Just AWESOME !!! THE BEST OF THE BEST !!!
@@marthacardenales9966 i’m wondering the same thing!
She is so sweet also I have met her.
Yes so true
Kelly Barnhill’s rise ball was nasty, being able to throw it all around the zone made for some pretty epic strikeouts
The media just does not get that girl's softball is arguably the most exciting sport out there to watch. When will they catch on??
Very....very.....Veryyy_...arguable....
I love all of these pitchers they are just flawless and inspire so many girls that play softball, I was watching Rachel while she was playing lol
Amanda Scott, Fresno State. She single handedly lead Fresno State to the 1998 World Series championship. Oh, and she beat a Nancy Evans lead Arizona team for the title. She was a 4 time All American and 2 time National ERA leader.
I hit enter B4 posting the rest of my note:
Individually, she posted a 106-18 (.855) career mark with 68 shutouts, 10 saves and 851 strikeouts in 871.0 innings for an ERA of 0.55. The holder of five school records and six WAC career marks in pitching/hitting
Thanks for mentioning Meagan King. Her 2018 post season was incredible.
That Lisa Fernandez change up was filthy
You need to check out Debbie Doom's 1984 stat line. That's her real name and she was doom for the opposition. P.S. The real purpose of this video seems to be an ad for Honda.
I met Jennie Finch today
@EmilyHamilton what was she like
Awesome!!
That fernandez pitch at 1:46.....GOOD LORD!!
best change up ever.
Dallas Escobedo, Arizona State.
UCLA’s Keira Goerl was the ONLY pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the NCAA Championship game. She was also the pitcher who led Valley View HS over Mater Dei HS for the CIF Championship in 1999.
love this stuff, so impressive
We loved compiling the list!
Really enjoyed your video, but there is no way Tracy Compton is not in the top 11 she threw 70 mph in the 1980's with a wicked rise ball from 41 feet.....Total domination!! I realize the women are better trained now , the softballs stay harder thru out the game and the bats are better, but Tracy would be a monster in any era. I really liked the Arizona pitchers as well but they aren't close to Compton, Doom from UCLA.
Jennie Ritter of Michigan beat 3 pitchers on the list to win the 2005 world series--Cat Osterman, Monica Abbott and Alicia Hollowell along with Jelly Selden.
No Angela Tincher with the Virginia Tech Hokkies who beat Team USA?!
Yes, Angela "CLINCHER" Tincher...Ho, HO Hokies🐔
She has to be included on the list. She pitched a no hitter against the USA team, and had 2000+ career strikeouts. She was also NCAA POY!!!
3:29 WAIT I'M SORRY BUT IS THAT A LEFT HANDED CATCHER!? HOLY SHIT!
Stephanie Braumbacher, Hannah Rogers, Carli Hoover.
You forgot the best of all.Lauren Hagen
2015 Honda award
2015 national player of the year
2015 SEC female athlete of the year
2015 WCWS most outstanding player
2015 SEC pitcher of the year
2015 32-2. 1.23 ERA
71 total home runs
260 RBI
Career batting average. 326
2 national championships
What pitcher on your list in there senior year went 32-2 and was the best hitter. What pitcher on your list even hit in games?
Only baseball or softball professional or college to win over 70 games and hit more than 70 home runs
Theres no comparison
Except Fernandez.. She was the best hitter on the UCLA team during her time there hitting over .500 for her career.
Bro I was about to close it until you said Rachel Garcia lol 😂 she’s 🔥🔥🔥
Please make the classic March Madness games public again, or at least unlisted. I was hoping since they just went down without explanation maybe they'd come back after a while but they haven't...
Michella you need to dig a little deeper, you missed this young lady from University of Northern Colorado.
Lou Piel 1980
As a young farm girl in northeastern Colorado, Lou couldn’t hit the side of a barn, but it didn’t take her long to find the target. Practice paid off in 1979 as the University of Northern Colorado’s junior pitching ace lit up the scoreboard with 155 strikeouts, a 0.52 earned runs average and an 18-2 win-loss record.
Leading UNC’s Division I team to the Region VII
championship and a third straight berth in the College World Series, the star hurler was named to the all-conference team for the third year in a row and was a “Top Ten” player at the national competition.
Five no-hitters, 17 shutouts, a 48-7 won-loss record and a career ERA of 0.05 illuminated her three-year collegiate marquee, and a string of equally impressive American Softball Association (ASA) credits boosted her selection for the first-ever U. S. Women’s Pan-American Games softball team tryouts.
The talented 6-footer also received All-America designation from both the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and the ASA, and was nominated for the AIAW Broderick Award presented annually to the nation’s most outstanding female athlete.
The 1979 achievement of which she is proudest, however, was her 1-0 win over the world champion Raybestos Brakettes as pitcher for the silver medallist Law Equipment of Greeley team at National Sports Festival 11 in Colorado Springs. The previously invincible Brakettes were eight-time ASA titleholders.
Subsequently, Lou pitched for the USA teams in the 1981 TriNational Championships in Japan and the 1982 World Championships in Taiwan. She spent an illustrious four years as head softball coach at the University of South Carolina, which was ranked in the Top 10 nationally throughout her tenure.
Lady’s softball is taking off. These people made that happen, they’re very exciting to watch a fast game, and not politics.
Kathy Van Wyk 1982 ( 35-1 ) 0.18 ERA Broderick Player
Of The Year.
Kat Osterman Was a Straight up Magician; I Remember Her Striking Out 18 Batters (Out of 21) in a Game. And Yes Kelani Ricketts Not Only Struck Out Lots of People, She Was a Home Run Queen, as Well (My All Time Favorite)
And Kelly Barnwell was the only one who wore a Rip-It mask. I'm an orthodontist, and man if you saw the x-rays taken after softball-to-the-face injuries you would never go without a mask.
Amanda Scott is missing from this list
Old School: Debbie Doom UCLA, Shawn Andaya Texas A&M. Pitching with DeBeers totally different than pitching with today’s balls. we also pitched at 40 feet.
Those were the days!!!!
They need to do a game of NCAASoftball 🔥
Good list I mostly agree with the order. I would switch out Evans and Garcia for Doom and Tincher. Also noting that Evans only won 2 titles in 94 and 97.
People seemed to not hear see or understand COLLEGE NCAA DIVISION I PITCHERS...some more names are Sarah Pauly, Lisa Ishikawa, Trinity Johnson, Danielle Henderson, Susie Parra, Amanda Scott, Compton sisters, Susan Lefebvre, Britni Sneed, Jolene Henderson, Kelly Barnhill and on and on...
I got Cat's autograph at the WCWS, we were in the bleachers in center field and saw her come out by the foul pole. Me and my nephew walked up to her and asked for an autograph and she signed by ticket, then a horde of girls screamed CAT CAT CAT and she returned and walked off.
I love softball 😊
I’d pick Taryn Mowatt with Jenny Finch and other SoCal OC players. - A hotbed of of outstanding softball 🥎 players
I will say this.....It takes guts to put together this list and then actually say it out loud! 🤣! Impossible task to me! But, fun video, thanks.
I’ve met cat ostroman at camp and my aunt and her are friends
Imagine if they had a women’s Major League Baseball league these ladies would be cy young mvps. Great list 👍🏻⚾️
People want to watch runs not putchers
Ellen and Ivy Renfroe from Tennessee?! They are legends.
Monica Abbott was a Beast I remembered seeing a game in person she was dominate
these ladies have some serious arms! I could't hit any of them
My favourite pitcher all time Meghan king🥰🥰
Britni sneed LSU should be on this list!! But enjoyed video and all great pitchers!!
*"Gone forever, Aaron Hernandez"*
Kathy Arendsen, TWU and Call State Chico. Look her up.
Michella Chester is beautiful 🤩 🤩😻😍👸👸
some other honorable mentions: Jolene Henderson, Megan Langenfeld, Stacey Nelson
Any top 11 list that doesn't include Virginia Tech's Angela Tincher is ridiculous. Better ERA than anybody on this list. Third most strikeouts in NCAA history. (Notice six of the 11 on her list include the top six strikeout pitchers EXCEPT for Tincher. See, this is what annoys me about college softball. The media only wants to talk about the national teams, the 'haves'. Win totals only tell how good your team is, not how good the pitcher is. ERA and strikeouts are the most telling of dominance. Tincher is one of five pitchers to achieve 100 wins, 1,000 strikeouts, an ERA under 1.00 and average double-digit strikeouts for her career. She also won the Honda Award.
But, she didn't play for ArizonaUCLAOklahoma, so she doesn't matter. Virginia Tech is not in their little club.
3:11 a left-handed catcher? that surprised me the most in this video
Washington has actually had more than one left handed catcher. They had one just a few years ago, too. The US National Team had a left handed catcher named Jennie Topping for many years, and she was an alternate on the 2008 Olympic team.
Left-handed catchers are common in fastpitch.
2021 there's a new a contender
y'all did Alicia Hollowell wrong with that freeze frame
What about the OG Kathy Arendsen??
Jordy Bahl (Oklahoma) is going to top this list by the time she's done
All these women are badass and they're all beautiful but their game is sick with it much respect hellyeah 💪🏻🤘🏼🤜🏽💥🤛🏽😁
Leaving out Debbie Doom and Tracy Compton invalidates this list.
That's Correct. By the way she is not listed in ncaa but JOAN JOYCE MIGHT HAVE BEEN TH Best Woman pitcher of all time. Also a tremendous all around athlete,
I have one in mind. Let's see if she's on the list. Yep. The very first one she picked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cat was a 3-time NCAA recognized pitcher but that was because she took a year off to pitch in the Olympics. I think she struck out everyone on the Japan Team (unheard of). I'm from New York State and the last 40 years California. There "ain't" much I root for from Texas but that young lady is at the top of my list (and she's a six foot tall leftie). She gets three votes from me!
I'm a little surprised there was no mention of Stacey Nelson of Florida fame.
I could also put one in for Jackie Traina of Alabama fame.
Ashley Brignac from ULL was overlooked for your list???? Great list I must say but you are missing a few good ones.
I gotta say if you watch the one play at first the runner was safe
Tarynne Mowat. Her changeup was the single nastiest pitch I’ve ever seen from a softball pitcher. Abbott’s rise ball was a close second.
They all take a back seat to a HS and College Pitcher named Carrie Newell. Soo lets just start with this. At SpringHill High School in Spring Hill Kansas Carrie from 1986 to 1989 Carrie finished her HS career at 77 wins and 3 losses in 4 years of HS. In those 3 losses Carrie lost on a error that was committed. In her college career from 1990 to 1993 at Brown Mackie College in Kansas she went 141 wins and 2 loses and won a division title in her freshmen and junior year in college for Brown Mackie. She threw a rising fastball clocked at 79 mph most pitches and had been clocked at 85 mph before. She never gave up more than 3 hits in a game and threw more than 16 no hitters throughout her pitching career. This girl was the real deal. Why she didn't want to go to a major university is because in that time of era softball wasn't about winning. She would of been just another good pitcher on another good team that had 4 good pitchers on each team. Her riser was unhittable and in her freshman year of HS in 1986 she beat a 6A School 1 to 0 that was undefeated during the regular season. Spring Hill softball in her HS Career had a record of 86 wins and 5 losses. Carrie Lost to Jill Bailey who played for the University of Kansas 1 to 0 on a error in 1988. Carrie never lost a game that wasn't considered a true loss because she never gave up that many hits her team committed an error and thats how she lost the 5 games she played in in HS and college. She won both games for Brown Mackie 1 to 0 to win their Division 3 titles in 1990 and 1992.
She was truely unhittable. The most hits she ever gave up was 3 hits in a game. She was the best pitcher by stats and wins for a pitcher. Unfortunately Softball back in the early 1990's and in the late 1980's wasn't a big thing soo thats one of the reasons why Carrie never wanted to attend a major university because it wasn't big back then like it is now. She truly was unhittable and every girl stuck out against her.
What about UCLA's Tanya Harding? She was 17-1 at UCLA and won all four of UCLA's WCWS games with a .50 ERA. Tanya shut down the hard-hitting Arizona team in the WCWS final.
Montana Fouts for sure
AZ Wildcats💙❤️💙❤️
Where is Jackie Traina?
The J Train
Oh please , Angela Tincher?
Kat Osterman in my day!
Miranda Elish!!!! She can pitch and when she is in the zone game over!!! Also a power hitter!!! 🤘
Sadly, I think she's mainly known for being popped in the face that one time!
Giselle Juarez, Montana Fouts, Odicci Alexander, Paige Parker, Paige Lowary, Rachel Garcia, Kelsey Barnhill, Monica Abott.
I think this list is mainly for those who are retired/ post college years. The ones you listed will make this list in the future if they keep working hard 😊
Keilani Ricketts is my pitching coach
Hi I just finished my last game of this year 2021
wait how am just noticing Alica Howell is my pitching coach?!!!??
Really!?!
Seeking attention
I’m sorry but I don’t believe this. If you’re passionate enough about softball and you’re a pitcher serious enough to take lessons, you know who Alicia Howell is, unless you’re literally 10 years old 🤦🏻♀️
Time to add Alabama's MONTANA FOUTS!
Jennie!!!
Not to mention Monica Abbott holds the world record fastest softball pitch ever recorded
Monica Abbott is the pitcher I would choose if I could have any pitcher from any era, ever. She’s hands down the best I ever saw.
Any pitcher from any era might go to Joan Joyce (although not necessarily college ball)
I probably would have put Barnhill on before Garcia. Also, would’ve had Blaire Luna
Where is Montana Fouts?
Her college career just started. She has a lot to prove still but I have faith she will make one of these lists in the future ☺️
I just want to put out there that one of my friends that plays middle school has a 60mph pitch
Sweet
See these girls and the talent, there should be a pro women's softball league with draft and everything. Would be watched way more than WNBA.
Hmm, no mention of Michelle Smith?
I’m brushing up on my D1 softball history but you’re telling me Abbott had 724 strike outs in ONE SEASON ???????????????????????
GOAT
Dallas Esobedo deserves at least a mention.
Holy Shit, this is SO badass....
Montana Fouts!!!!
Valerie cagle because I’m a clemson fan and she’s awesome
Blair Luna was good too
Odicci Alexander is by far one of the best. And it’s sad that not one African American female pitcher didn’t make this list smh
Tarynn Mowatt was clutch. Not as big a girl as many on this list but she could deal with the best of em.
I have a softball bat based off of Jennie Finch
You are missing Montana fouts.
What about Odicci Alexander
Montana Fouts belongs on this list,