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OKLAHOMA CITY -- More than a decade before Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens fired the fastest softball pitch ever recorded, Dana Fussetti discovered an elementary school-aged pitcher and foretold a prophecy.
Fussetti, a Greenville, South Carolina-based softball coach, was in the middle of a hitting lesson when she first identified Pickens and her overwhelming promise. The eventual All-American ace was just 10 years old at the time. But from across the facility, Fussetti quickly became transfixed by the "lanky beanpole," who had long arms, polished mechanics and velocity in the mid-50s.