What is lisa fernandez doing now

Friday, Nov. Features , Softball , Sports. By Coral Smith June 8, p. This post was updated June 10 at a. Share this story: Facebook Twitter Reddit Email. Coral Smith Sports senior staff. As a hitter, she batted. This was despite a poor 3-for performance at the plate in the Games.

She rallied to bat. She reached those and more during a remarkable run that saw her win about every honor she could.

UCLA won national championships in her freshman and junior years, in and , and was the runner-up in her sophomore and a senior seasons in and In , she was with a 0. She allowed just 77 hits and had 22 shutouts. In her senior season, Fernandez led the nation in both hitting and pitching.

She batted. In , ESPN chose players to make up the greatest collegiate softball players ever. She served as a role model for scores of young women who looked to make something of themselves. She went on to be arguably the greatest pitcher ever. She made the most of what she had and told Long Beach Magazine in that she took seriously the notion that she was a role model.

You have to be thankful and be able to give back. Lakers legend and Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor dies at Thamel: March delivering the madness after two-year hiatus. An Orange County mom has filed a police complaint after her daughter was left with a concussion from a sucker punch during a youth basketball game. After two and a half years with the 49ers and zero games played, Jalen Hurd has been released. But what is to follow? The Olympics, in Australia.

Number one and two in the world, in their homeland. For the Olympics. And she topped the billing at a sporting contest that unfolded like an implausible sports movie. Going into Sydney, the US team were beyond hot favourites: they were coasting on a game winning streak. But when they got to Australia, the wheels came off. We had to stress the good things in our team, not the negative. And we did. But we knocked teams off, and then we went again against the teams that had beaten us: Japan, Australia, China.

It was intense, to say the least. Especially beating Australia. You know it got loud, it was competition at its highest. But the resilience of that team came through.

To lose three in a row and then come back, for me, that was an impressive feat. Fernandez shone throughout, and her star rose further. A brilliant collegiate player for UCLA, she was one of the few softball players who made a professional living from the game and through endorsements, with a range of Lisa Fernandez bats and mitts available. It was all made possible by her genius as a pitcher, although the humble Californian, now 49, believes she also benefitted from good luck.