Neeli Bendapudi was scheduled to throw out the first pitch at the University of Louisville – Indiana University baseball game on Tuesday. A few days earlier, however, she had suffered a torn rotator cuff while unpacking at her new UofL home.
Meagan Hensley, a UofL softball pitcher, would happily throw the ball for Bendapudi at her first athletic event as the new University of Louisville President. She was accompanied by her husband Venkat, a senior lecturer in the School of Business at Kansas University.