My immediate family and every girl on the softball team. If they break up with a boyfriend, fail a test, run out of gas, I need to know about it. Because now I'm their surrogate dad. Players are also attracted to Arizona because softball is big in Tucson. An average of 1,300 to 1,500 fans usually attends the games at Rita Hillenbrand Stadium, which sits in the middle of campus.
Big games draw standing-room only crowds, and the players are local celebrities.
Finch said people often recognize her and her teammates in public. As a team we talk about it all the time. If we were at UCLA, we wouldn't be recognized. Candrea is one of the leading candidates to coach the United States Olympic team in 2004. But he has his reservations about the job because it would mean leaving the Arizona program for a year.