READ MORE:* Softball greats mantain bond to guide the White Sox towards 2028 Olympics* Home Advantage: White Sox softballer Mikayla Lewin's athlete scholarship in limbo* Softball prodigy Caitlyn Lewin running in White Sox hero’s footsteps* Canterbury outfielder Nerissa McDowell keeps family White Sox softball tradition aliveAnd bridges of a metaphorical nature: connecting what she’s absorbing overseas with the White Sox and softball communities back home in New Zealand. Lewin was a Junior White Sox when she got the call-up for the national women’s side, the Sky Sport White Sox, in 2018. In 2019, Lewin received the Jean Williams Award - for the top softball scholar of the year in the state of Florida. Her younger sister, Caitlyn - another Junior White Sox member in the family - will join the ranks at Chipola College sometime this year on the same scholarship. “For someone like me who has grown up playing softball, over here you really get to live and breathe softball,” she says.

Source: Stuff March 30, 2021 18:04 UTC