Before Lauren Foster became a softball star with coaching dreams of her own, she was a little girl who wanted to practice incessantly with her dad.
Back then, Steve Foster was the pitching coach for the High-A Greensboro Grasshoppers. The Rockies’ pitching coach was starting a career that would take him away from his family for months at a time, but summertime meant occasional visits from his Wisconsin-based family. And that meant 6-year-old Lauren wearing him out late at night to try and groove her swing.
“After games I know he was absolutely exhausted, but I would always beg him to come and hang out with me in the cage,” Lauren recalled.