When Haley Hestekin takes the mound for the University of Wisconsin softball team, she usually can look in multiple directions to spot teammates that share a common geographic bond with her.
Konwent is second in the country with a .477 batting average and is one of 10 finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award.
But it's not just UW that has benefited from what one longtime state softball coach said was a good crop of players from Wisconsin in the last four years.