(Oct. 9, 1925 – Jul. 9, 1979) Betty Evans Grayson reached the highest level of competitive softball while still in high school and had a Hall of Fame career that included pitching for a national champion team and even spending time in a professional league. Although Evans, who took the name Grayson after marriage to..Read More
(Oct. 10, 1935 – May 3, 2014) Carolyn Fitzwater played her way into the state’s sports landscape as an infield with the Erv Lind Florists, and continued to a memorable teaching and coaching career. Born in 1935, Fitzwater graduated from Portland’s Washington High School in 1953, but had already reached the top of the softball..Read More
(1906 – 1964) Born in Chicago, in 1906, Erv Lind made a name for himself in the sports world as a sponsor and coach of one of the state’s great amateur teams: softball’s Erv Lind Florists. A rec-league baseball player into middle age, Lind moved into sponsorship of a softball team in 1937 and quickly..Read More
Teri Mariani (b. Aug. 16, 1952) has spent more than half her lifetime at Portland State University, as a student, an athlete, an administrator, and as coach. Now in her 31st year on the PSU campus, 27 of those years as softball coach during which time her teams have won 608 games, she is one..Read More
Jackie Rice pitched for elite-level softball teams for two decades, including the 1964 Erv Lind Florists national champions, before beginning a long career as coach and administrator at Western Oregon University. As a player, Rice is best known as the star pitcher for the Erv Lind Florists in 1963 and ’64. She took over the..Read More