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In September 2016, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and Triple Crown Sports joined together to bring about the National Invitational Softball Championships, a 48-team postseason Division-I event designed to highlight the growth of women's softball and the depth of talent on college rosters from coast to coast.
For the Big Ten, Romero tops the same stats except walks, which gives her the conference career Triple Crown, a rare feat. [43] In the NCAA, she ranks first for her career runs and grand slams and top-10 in RBIs, slugging (4th), total bases (6th), home runs (8th) and walks (9th). [44]
The 2003 National Pro Fastpitch season was the final year before the Women's Pro Softball League (WPSL) relaunched with league play in 2004. In November 2002, WPSL announced that it was taking a new name, National Pro Fastpitch , and that it would spend 2003 as a year of touring before resuming competitive play. [ 1 ]
As a junior in 2015, she hit .560, with nine home runs, six triples, 17 doubles and 55 RBIs, and led the league in all categories to win the Triple Crown. She struck out only seven times in 99 plate appearances, with a .586 on-base percentage, 1.1175 slugging percentage and 1.762 OPS.
Premier Girls Fastpitch was founded in 2009 [2] by Gary Haning and Dan Hay in Huntington Beach, California. [3] The premise of the organization was to compete with the Amateur Softball Association by having teams qualify for regional events as well as the National Championships, ultimately creating better competition for larger events.
Trump is one of 11 players to have completed a career Triple Crown but only Steve Davis, Hendry and Mark Williams have won the UK Championship, Masters and World Championship in a single season.
Burkhart was drafted first overall and played for the USSSA Pride, Tennessee Diamonds and Carolina Diamonds in the National Pro Fastpitch, where she currently is a top-10 career leader in strikeout ratio, WHIP and complete games. Additionally she also played in Japan. Following the 2012 NPF season, Burkhart announced her retirement as a player.
Last year, BBC Sport's coverage of the Triple Crown events had 33.9 million streams across BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website, and more than 16 million tuning in on TV.