Mizzou pitcher Chelsea Thomas. (Photo by Clayton Hotze)
This is the latest in a series of stories highlighting the top 30 Mizzou athletes Dave Matter has covered in his time writing about the Tigers since the late 1990s.
It’s one of the best recruiting stories in modern Mizzou athletics.
The emails were stuffing Ehren Earleywine’s inbox. Rich Thomas from Pleasantville, Iowa, wanted Missouri’s softball coach to check out his daughter. She was a pitcher. Her name was Chelsea. She threw straight gas. He sent a DVD, too, but the footage was too grainy to make any kind of evaluation.