Utah Utes softball pitcher Mariah Lopez has grown in confidence and has Utah playing well because of it.
Utah pitcher Mariah Lopez as Utah's softball team faces Southern Illinois in the NCAA Tournament in Salt Lake City on Friday, May 19, 2023.Utah Utes softball coach Amy Hogue walked to the pitching mound in a signal that Mariah Lopez’s outing was over.
Lopez has been pitching lights out throughout the postseason for Utah. She’s gone all seven innings in four of the last five games, all of them wins. In those give games, she has 25 strikeouts. In the last three games, she’s given up only two runs. “Even playing these past couple of years, it’s been a challenge trying to switch that mindset that you’re just as good as everyone else in the country,” Lopez said.
“I think that there’s always kind of been that wavering confidence in myself,” Lopez said. “But that kind of turned the page for me, I think.”
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