How Kylee Hanson Was The Brightest Softball Star In Week 1, Outside Her Own Dugout

ByGRAHAM HAYS
February 18, 2016, 2:51 PM

— -- No one in college softball had a better week than Florida Atlantic's Kylee Hanson, even if she was the second-best pitcher in her own dugout.

Don't worry, it's an easy riddle to solve.

In this case, second-best is far from a slight. Plenty of people would apply it to almost any pitcher in Hanson's place, even if that pitcher happened to be Monica Abbott, Lisa Fernandez or Cat Osterman. To more than a few fans who followed the sport well before the current NCAA era, Florida Atlantic coach Joan Joyce is the greatest pitcher who ever lived.

When someone in your own dugout once struck out Ted Williams, everyone else is competing for second.