UW softball coach Heather Tarr was on the road scouting a 14-and-under softball tournament in Northern California in 2010, when a former player from her days as an assistant coach at Pacific approached her with a tip.
“You’ll never believe this,” the woman told Tarr. “But that shortstop right there wants to go to UW. She watched every pitch of every inning of your 2009 National Championship.”
Tarr was intrigued. After all, it’s not every day that a kid recruits the coach instead of the other way around.
As it was, Sis Bates, now the Huskies’ starting second baseman and a contender for National Fastpitch Coaches Association Freshman of the Year Honors, made Tarr’s job impossibly easy.