Word: fromholz
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Playing baseball, though, increased Fromholz's confidence and she soon switched to playing softball. She began pitching when she was 12 and started practicing with a pitching coach a year later...
Once she got hooked on softball, she couldn't let go. "I always played a lot of sports-I played soccer and ran cross-country in high school," Fromholz says. "I enjoy watching baseball [she's an avid Dodgers fan] and once I became a pitcher and started going to the pitching coach, softball became my favorite sport...
...dedication to and enthusiasm for the sport did, indeed, pay off. Fromholz was named First-Team All-California Interscholastic Federation her junior and senior years in high school, and Most Valuable Player and Scholar Athlete of the Prep League during her senior year...
...Princeton has always had such a strong softball program that I didn't see much playing time. Harvard had a young program and I thought I would have a better chance of playing more often," Fromholz says. "I was right. I definitely made the right decision. I've loved Harvard and softball has been a big part of my experience here...
Besides playing softball and working on her thesis, Fromholz works as a member of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics and is a co-founder of a Phillips Brooks House Civics Project Program, which directs civic education classes for inner-city junior high school students...