COLUMBIA, MO. • Missouri softball coach Larissa Anderson remembers the moment she saw Kim Wert on a softball field for the first time.
She was in Binghamton, N.Y., watching Wert, then a sophomore in high school from Melfa, Va., play shortstop. One play stood out.
“She did a Derek Jeter,” Anderson said. “She planted off her right foot and threw across the diamond, and as the ball left her hand, she just kept running to the dugout because she knew the kid was out.”
The play was the start of Wert and Anderson’s strong relationship.