BIO:

Like many accomplished Senior players, Kathy Sowers experienced only modest success prior to her 20-plus years as a member of the Ohio Cardinals.  Yes, there were league championships won as a teenager in Bellevue, Oh. and Norwalk, Oh., and Kathy earned MVP honors in the Middletown Invitational at the age of just 21.  She also enjoyed a MAC Conference title with Bowling Green State University during the 1972-’73 season, and ASA Metro and District titles with Frisch’s in 1974.  But her 45-plus year career was relatively unremarkable over the next 23 years, until she joined the Ohio Cardinals in 1997.  The rest – as they say – is history!   The Cardinals have won no fewer than 8 National and 43 World Championships in SSWS, USSSA, SSWC, and SPA programs and in the Huntsman World Senior Games, plus one Bronze, One silver and 8 Gold Medals in the National Senior Olympic Games.  And she has been named to various 35 All-World or All-American teams.  In addition to the Cardinals, she has played with teams from coast to coast, including Arizona, California, Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee.  Primarily an outfielder, Kathy boasts a lifetime batting average of .479.  Staying healthy, playing on successful teams, moving runners and producing rbi’s – plus getting the occasional “big girl hit” – have all contributed to Kathy’s success.  But most important to Kathy has been the “great people” she has met that “have become her good friends.”  “I appreciate all aspects of the game and it has made me a better person today,” she says.