She is preparing to pitch this summer for Team Canada, with the ultimate goal of making the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where softball is back for the first time since 2008.
It’s at once jarring and exhilarating to see Danielle Lawrie back in the pitching circle, a familiar look of intensity on her face as she rockets the ball toward the plate.
It’s easy to be transported back to 2009, when Lawrie was the toast of college softball while leading the University of Washington to the NCAA title in a still-legendary feat of durability and dominance.