My family vacations were softball tournaments.

For softball, we need the Olympics. For young girls dreaming of that Olympic dream, that's where it's at, and that's where it all started in '96 for our sport.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.