I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.

I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.