Behind the yellow glasses
is Wolverine Kateri Peters
It is easy to spot our own Wesley Wolverine freshman #2 OF Kateri Peters (Havre DeGrace, MD) on the softball field. She is the player sporting the bright yellow glasses!
Katrina also is a leader in the weight room where she holds three world records in power lifting – squat, deadlift, and bench press – for her age and weight class.
Kateri Peters
See "re-post" immediately below for more on glasses at softball games!
Click here for her profile and more about her lifting accomplishments.
"Special" props" story first posted at the blog on Friday, January 16, 2015 while the "rituals" story first appear on Sunday, August 3, 2014
Fans at the game:
Rally towels, shaved heads,
now glasses show school pride
The list is long of special props brought by fans to games to support a team. There's rally towels, homer hankies, the “we're #1” oversized foam index-finger, not to mention, of course, team caps, sweatshirts, t-shirts, and posters.
Even shaved heads!? (More about that in photo caption below.)
Now there's a brand new one. Glasses. That is, fans wearing glasses. Large glasses. Large glasses without lenses. That's what can be seen throughout the stands at any Lafayette Ragin Cajuns softball game.
It is the fans demonstrating support for the team and the young lady in the circle, Christina Hamilton, the pitching phenom with glasses!
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| RELATED SUBJECT: FANS AT THE WESLEY
WOLVERINES OPENER last season (2014) (recognize anyone?) against the Gallaudet Bison in Washington, DC. GOING BALD: There are a several young WOMEN in the crowd with shaved heads. This, apparently, is a long-standing tradition for Gallaudet freshmen, who shave their heads after dyeing their hair bright colors for a semester. CLICK HERE for more on Gallaudet's Bald Day. |
Christina Hamilton has been wearing glasses while throwing heat since high school. Her record last season, amid multiple awards, was 29-4 with a 1.56 ERA in 237.1 innings hurled, so the glasses are nothing she plans to change anytime soon. She does, however, pitch with the lenses removed.
CLICK HERE for the NCAA video titled “Christina Hamilton: The pitcher behind the glasses”.
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| CLICK HERE for the NCAA video (shown above) titled “Christina Hamilton: The pitcher behind the glasses”. |
BELOW VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS of Lafayette Ragin Cajuns' 2014 Sun Belt Conference Softball Championship game, Christina pitching (though her back is to the camera for most of it)...
Superstitious behavior?
Small rituals help relax, prepare
Wolverines before, during game
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| Nina & Lily "handshake" with hands & feet! |
Gaze around a Wesley Wolverines softball game in warmups, between innings, and during play for small rituals players repeat tirelessly to prepare themselves mentally for the game. It might be a high five between two teammates, a lone index finger and eyes pointed toward the sky, a hand simply touching a special necklace – or even an elaborate production that's appears straight out of a hokey pokey dance (see photo on right).
JuniorC/3B Nina Marcano has mastered the most obvious to all synchronized rituals before every inning. You may find her and the pitcher kicking their feet up for a bizarre hand-to-foot handshake or always, without fail, 2015 graduate 1B Samantha Mahoski presents Nina with her catchers mask by flipping it high into the air.
Just superstition? Psychologist say that these small rituals are good – e.g., repeatedly tapping the plate with a bat, adjusting batting gloves, even kissing the bat – because they momentarily settle the player with a level of comfort by feeling in control of the situation before going into play when so much can quickly and suddenly become completely uncontrollable.
JuniorC/3B Nina Marcano has mastered the most obvious to all synchronized rituals before every inning. You may find her and the pitcher kicking their feet up for a bizarre hand-to-foot handshake or always, without fail, 2015 graduate 1B Samantha Mahoski presents Nina with her catchers mask by flipping it high into the air.
Just superstition? Psychologist say that these small rituals are good – e.g., repeatedly tapping the plate with a bat, adjusting batting gloves, even kissing the bat – because they momentarily settle the player with a level of comfort by feeling in control of the situation before going into play when so much can quickly and suddenly become completely uncontrollable.
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| Before every inning Sam flips the catchers mask to Nina. |