It’s been a decision a long time coming. Former Arizona ace Danielle O’Toole thought the Tokyo Olympics would mark the end of her competitive pitching career. Then, the Olympics were pushed back a year and she wasn’t happy with how things finished. She felt like she needed to go out on her own terms.
“After I had my season last season, I was like, ‘Oh, I really don’t know if I can do this again,’” O’Toole said. “And then I realized that that’s not the way I wanted to go out. It wasn’t fair to me or to the game or to pretty much anybody else that I felt that way about softball.