If you've ever doubted the importance of girls playing sports, if
you've ever shrugged when funding for girls' volleyball was cut when
the high school football team gets new jerseys, if you've ever thought
that jocks cared about nothing more than winning and thought movies
like Rudy or A League of Their Own
showed an idealized view of sportsmanship, then take a look at the
story of Sara Tucholsky, a college softball player who was finishing
her senior year and entire college career without ever having hit a
home run.
It was her goal to finally hit a homer, a goal that
was looking not possible to achieve because she's a small girl and has
a smaller swing. In a close game, she nailed the ball...zoom! Out of
the park! However, as she was rounding first base, she tore a ligament
in her knee. Sara crawled back to first base and hugged it, but the
umpire said that if any member of her team touched her, the run would
count as a two hit run and NOT a home run.
That's when Mallory
Holtman, the first base player for the opposing team, asked if it would
still count as a home run if members of the opposing team helped Sara
finish lapping the bases. The ump agreed and then Mallory and shortstop
Liz Wallace physically carried Sara around the bases, pausing and
lowering the injured girl so that she could gently tap each base with
her uninjured foot. Sara's team won the game and Mallory and Liz helped
them do it. Seriously, just watch the video. I never played sports in
high school or college, but this? Makes me want to go back in time and
pick up a bat. Even writing about it, I get all sniffly and emotional.
Go Sara! Go Mallory! You guys rock!
Anyone want to play catch?
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