Jennie Finch the Biography

Jennie Finch, Softball Player, - Biography, Jennie Daigle

USA Softball player.

Height: 6 foot 1, (1.85 M)

Weight: 174 Pounds

Born September 3, 1980, La Mirada, California,

Jennie Lynn Finch, or occasionally using her married name, Jennie Daigle, is famous for being a softball player & an American athlete & as of 2004 a pitcher for USA Softball, was one of the pitchers on the team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Jennie Finch has been playing softball since she was five years old & has been pitching since she was eight. At La Mirada High School, Finch lettered four times in softball, & twice each in both basketball & volleyball. (As a senior, she was the captain of all three sports.) As a sophomore, she was an All-CIF Div. II choice in softball & an All-Suburban League selection, which was quite a great honor for her. Her dad, Doug Finch, was her first pitching coach. He is also the inventor of the Finch Windmill, an arm conditioning device that has been selling successfully for over 15 years.

Finch played softball for The University of Arizona. She was a three-time All-American pitcher & first-baseman & "Honda Award" winner for the Player of the Year as a member of the Wildcat softball team. Her jersey number -- #27 (the date of her parents' first date) -- was retired by the University of Arizona on May 9, 2003 at Hillenbrand Stadium. She recorded 24 wins in her freshman season; 29 wins in her sophomore season; 32 wins (and no losses) in her junior season to set a NCAA record; & 24 wins in her senior season, to amass a career total of 109 victories which were the 12th most at the time. She has since been passed by Alicia Hollowell, Monica Abbott, Cat Osterman, Tara Penney, Keira Goerl, Brooke Mitchell, Jamie Southern, & Kristen Schmidt, & tied by Jessica Sallinger.

She also struck out a total of 1,028 batters, the 23rd most at the time. She has since been passed by Cat Osterman, Alicia Hollowell, Tara Penney, Monica Abbott, Jennie Ritter & Stephanie VanBrakle.

The 2004 Olympics
Finch had a 2-0 won/loss record in the 2004 Athens, Greece, Summer Olympics, striking out 13 batters in eight innings while giving up only one hit, one walk, & no runs at all. Her pitching helped lead the American team to the gold medal.

Pros vs Joes
Jennie Finch appeared on season one of Pros vs Joes on Spike TV along with Bill Romanowski, Dan O'Brien, Muggsy Bogues, & Bo Jackson. Her appearance marked a number of firsts for the show, such as the first woman to appear on the show, & the first Pro to wear lipstick while competing.

Career & life
Jennie Finch married Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Casey Daigle on January 15, 2005 at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

Finch & Daigle welcomed a son Ace on May 4, 2006. After an induction because Finch was overdue, Ace Shane Daigle was born in Tucson, Arizona.

Finch came to some more prominence when she defeated Anna Kournikova in an ESPN online poll as the most attractive female athlete. & like Kournikova, Finch has modeled swimwear for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition in 2005-06.

Finch has appeared on various talk shows promoting softball & the US Olympic Team, & also hosts a segment on the TV program This Week in Baseball. Her "This Week in Baseball" segment often features her pitching to major-league baseball players, using a softball & pitching from the same distance she would in a softball game. Finch usually strikes out the baseball players by using her 71 mph riseball that 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.

She was offered a lucrative contract to appear nude for Playboy magazine, but she commented to the press on August 14, 2004 that such an offer wasn't going to tempt her. She said 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." She appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated once wearing a tank top & a mini skirt.

Finch currently works for ESPN. She also 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.

Career Statistics

La Mirada High School
YEAR W L GP GS CG Sh SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA
TOTALS 50 12 == == == == 4 445.0 === == == == 784 0.15

United States National Team
YEAR W L GP GS CG Sh SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA
2001 2 0 5 2 2 2 0 17.0 1 1 1 0 23 0.41
2002 6 0 9 7 5 4 0 40.1 22 6 4 7 41 0.69
2003 7 1 11 8 5 3 1 47.2 11 4 2 6 78 0.29
2004 15 0 28 16 7 7 1 100.1 20 4 3 16 208 0.27
Olympics 2 0 2 2 1 1 0 8.0 1 0 0 1 13 0.00
2005 4 1 7 5 3 2 0 26.0 16 5 4 6 34 1.08
TOTALS 36 2 62 40 23 19 2 239.1 71 20 14 36 397 0.41

University of Arizona Wildcats
YEAR W L GP GS CG Sh SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA
2000 24 == == == == == = ===.= === == == == === 0.79
2001 29 = == == == == = ===.= === == == == === 0.54
2002 32 0 == == == == = ===.= === == == == === =.==
2003 24 == == == == == = ===.= === == == == === =.==
TOTALS 109 == === === === == == ====.= === === === === 1028 =.==

This site was written in April 2007

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