Provo • BYU junior left fielder Rylee Jensen is often asked how she got so good at softball while growing up in the tiny Southeastern Idaho community of Osgood, which is sort of halfway between Idaho Falls and Rigby.
Jensen, who ranks No. 30 in the country with a .426 batting average, grew up on her family’s 14,000-acre farm and developed a strong arm by throwing potatoes at and with her three brothers when she wasn’t driving tractors, plows and potato diggers.
She also taught herself how to juggle — developing excellent hand-eye coordination — by tossing the small potatoes in the air when the equipment broke down during harvests.