Carley Hoover

Carley Jordan Hoover was born on 9 February 1995 in Clemson, South Carolina, and is an American female softball pitcher for the United States national team. The Japanese Wikipedia article says she started softball at eight, went to Stanford University and after a year transferred to Louisiana State University, where she recorded 71 wins and 30 losses with a 1.74 ERA, 754 strikeouts and 66 complete games and reached the Women's College World Series three times from 2015 to 2017. She played for the United States at international events such as the USA World Cup and the Japan Cup from 2016 to 2018, was drafted ninth overall in the 2018 NPF Draft by the Cleveland Comets but did not sign, and from 2019 pitched for Denso Bright Pegasus in the Japan League, leading it in 2022 with 18 wins, 152 innings and 198 strikeouts and a 1.66 ERA. This entry is written from the Japanese Wikipedia article on Carley Hoover, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.