Softball pitcher Strunk finds passion in special education teaching

Softball pitcher Madison Strunk is, in ways, following the career path of her mom, even though her mom did not always want it that way.

Strunk’s mother, Paige Sharp, is now a realtor, but when Strunk was growing up, her mom was a teacher of special needs children.

Photo via SHU AthleticsNow, about eight years later, Strunk wants to teach special needs children as well.

“I would always spend time [in her classes]. She would teach summer school and I’d always go with her every day,” Strunk said. “She was a life skills teacher, so every day I’d go with her and get experience there.”

While Sharp is always supportive of her daughter’s decisions, the one to go into the education field was not one she…