Former Arizona pitching standout Susie Parra enters the Pac-12's Hall of Honor as UA softball's first inductee; it would be hard to find a more deserving candidate.
PJ Brown Susie Parra looked around the room at her fellow class of inductees for the Pac-12’s Hall of Honor and was taken aback.
Colorado’s Ceal Berry, who became the school’s winningest coach with 427 victories in basketball and became the Buffaloes' first-ever deputy athletic director ... Parra was also moved by former Stanford softball standout Mendoza’s speech, when she said she"was excited to see a brown person being able to play in college like herself, and then she looked down crying and was emotional.”Parra is the first UA softball player to receive this honor. Take one look at what she accomplished in the circle for Arizona from 1991-94 and it’s easy to see why: She is considered one of the best to ever don a Wildcat uniform and in collegiate softball.
“I had a lot of expectations on myself of excellence, I guess, but at the at the time I didn't really think they were expectations. It was just, ‘Do it, dammit.’ It was make them pop up. Make them swing and miss. No, that's not good enough if they got a little blooper between third and short; I didn't jam them enough.
“She was not a fist-pump . She was not a yeller. She was not a talker," said Dalton-Hill, now an analyst for ESPN."She didn't do much of anything other than ... pointing at you if she knew you did something well for her. But she is one of the most consistent pitchers I've ever played behind. “We just played, and he didn’t point it out,” she said. “At the end of the season, there was no big hurrah. You would walk into his office, and he'd say, ‘Oh, some things came for you today.’ And you led in statistical categories for the nation and there was a big plaque. He just handed them to you. You took them home, and you put them in a box.
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