Gina Snyder hopes this summer will mark the beginning of a long coaching career. The former Arizona pitcher is serving as the head coach of the Bradenton Slice in their inaugural season in the Florida Gulf Coast League, an opportunity that “fell into her lap.”
“The owner (Ryan Moore) is actually a huge baseball guy, and he saw that I threw out the first pitch at one of the Arizona Diamondbacks games, and that’s kind of how it came about,” Snyder said. “He reached out to me on Twitter, and I didn’t even really have to think about it.