Katie Burkhart

Katherine Burkhart, born on 24 February 1986, is an American former collegiate All-American and retired professional All-Star softball pitcher who now works as a softball coach. At Arizona State she won a national championship in 2008 and was named Most Outstanding Player, and she holds the school career records for wins, strikeouts, perfect games, innings pitched, WHIP and strikeout ratio. She was drafted first overall into National Pro Fastpitch, where she played for the USSSA Pride, Tennessee Diamonds and Carolina Diamonds, also played in Japan, and retired as a player after the 2012 season. She was inducted into the SLOHS and ASA Hall of Fame in 2011, had her jersey retired by Arizona State in 2017 and entered the university's Hall of Fame in 2018.