Sami Reynolds was not a member of the Washington softball team that finished 52-10 and reached the Women’s College World Series final last spring.
But Thursday’s game against Arizona won’t be her debut inside Oklahoma City’s USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium.
The Huskies’ 5-foot-4 freshman outfielder actually played in a travel tournament at the WCWS venue when she was 14 years old, on “the tiny little hometown team that my aunt coached.”
In the years since, a lot has changed.
And some things haven’t.
“I think it puts it into perspective, that it is the same game that we’ve been playing since we were younger,” Reynolds said in a phone interview from Oklahoma City, after flying out of Seattle at 4 a.