PATRICIA WHITMAN

Athlete, North Penn HS, 1957
Field Hockey, Softball (Pitcher)

World Games Gold Medal Winner, 1979
Played with California Lionettes and the Raybestos Brakettes
1st Female Athlete Inducted into ASA PA Hall of Fame, 1986.

Inducted 2005

North Penn High School, 1957

Pat lettered in several sports at North Penn High School.  After graduation, she had a whirlwind twenty years, becoming one of the best pitchers in fast pitch softball, with a career ERA of 0.50 and strikeout average of 12 per game!  She pitched the longest game in ASA history, 28 2/3 innings.  She played in Pennsylvania her first twelve years and was named MVP each of those years in the regional tournament. In 1973 she traveled west to play with the Orange County (California) Lionettes and then back east to the greatest women’s softball team ever, the Connecticut-based Raybestos Brakettes. She earned a gold medal at the 1974 World Games as a member of the USA’s first international softball team; was a U.S All Star team player five times.  After playing pro softball 1976 to 1978, she Coached at several California colleges before coming back home again with the Pennsylvania Clippers. Pat was the first female inducted into the Pennsylvania ASA Hall of Fame (1986).