Softball

2003

Aug 16

Teri Mariani – Softball

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

1992

Aug 01

Carolyn Fitzwater – Softball

(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

1989

Aug 12

Jackie Rice – Softball

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

1988

Aug 28

Erv Lind – Softball

(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

1984

Aug 25

Margaret Dobson – Softball

(Jun 20, 1931 – Jul. 13, 2012) Margaret Dobson earned a spot in Oregon’s sports heritage as an elite-level softball player, an administrator at Portland State and even played a role in the development of the Special Olympics. Dobson joined the Erv Lind Florists team as a teenager and, at age 18, finished the 1950..Read More

1982

Aug 29

Betty Evans Grayson – Softball

(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