Softball profile/fluff: SS Sierra Romero (let's hope Hutch's praise extends to MBB tonight)
There is a nice piece in the Detroit News about freshman shortstop Sierra Romero. Good feelings all around, with Romero coming off as likeable and Hutch having nothing but great praise, including this bit I hope can apply to Burke and Co in Atlanta tonight:
She's just flourishing here. She's really confident. She's had some bad games -- I think she had four or five errors in a game -- but it doesn't faze her because she knows she's good. She comes from a quality family. She's respectful, humble. She has the greatest combination of swag, confidence, but I wouldn't call it cocky. She's just a real confident kid.
In addition, the piece compiles some of her very impressive statistics from her freshman year. M Softball will be lucky to have her for her college career, which is already pretty remarkable half a season in. Also, in other feel-good type things, the first comment on the piece is from her mother, via Facebook.
Romero was a highly-touted recruit, and is more than living up to the hype. She is already within striking-distance of the single-season home-run record (record is 21 and she's at 15, IIRC). The fact that softball players don't go pro early makes me very happy, because there's no fear of a one-and-done here. Sierra has moved into Ann Arbor and will be terrorizing pitchers throughout the Big Ten and the entire country for years to come!