The traditional SMC Fall Ball game with the softball alumni became the SMC Softball Annual Raina Jensen Alumni Game in 2011. Katelyn was able to come up from Yale (where her intramural team had just won the graduate/professional championship) to play for the Alumni, so I went and took some photos. She had a beautiful bunt to move a runner, an RBI single, a stolen base, and a run scored. She took turns at CF, SS, and 3B ... not a bad evening! The game was delayed by a change in timing of the varsity soccer game, pushing play into the late evening, which just gave us all more time to chat and it was soooo good to see some of the faces from ago! By first pitch, the light was growing scarce so the photos are few, grainy, and fuzzy ... still, they're fun.

Two highlights for me - beyond the usual joy of shooting athletes in action and yammering with the coaches and families on the sidelines. I got to throw with Kate before pregame warmups and that's just always cool. Then, I got to photograph Alumni '02 Karina's daughter Abbie. Abbie is just soooo impossibly cute -- and Karina was one of Kate's coaches in the 2006 North-South All-Star Games!! Great fun.