Celebrating 10 Years 

The Connecticut Hornets is celebrating it's 10th year anniversay and would like to welcome you to our site! The CT Hornets is an organization that strives to give young ladies the opportunity to experience competitive fastpitch softball at its highest level. At the same time, we seek to teach girls that respect,commitment,hard work and discipline can guide them to not only become better softball players and teammates, but also better people. 

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PROGRESS ALWAYS INVOLVES RISK. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO STEAL SECOND BASE AND KEEP YOUR FOOT ON FIRST.   
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 Hall of Fame 

Congratulation to the following list of Hornet players that are now playing College Softball :

Class of 2006 

Alison Drobiarz   Tufts University             Old Saybrook H.S.
Blair Destito         Boston College                Sacred Heart Academy
Sarah Jakiela       Salve Regina                   Maloney H.S.
Kiley Molinari      Franklin Pierce College Maloney H.S.

Jessica Hurston        Howard University            Sheehan H.S.
Arianna Coulter        Dickinson                            Branford H.S.
Megan Ferrera         University of Charleston  Maloney H.S.
Amanda Varrichio    Daniel Webster College    Mercy H.S. 

Class of 2008

Chelsea Sheehan - Iona College  - Branford H.S.

Jessica Iuteri - Adelphi University - North Branford H.S.

This is just a preliminary list of Hornets that are now in college and playing softball or Hornets that are in high school and have committed to a college. Keep looking at the announcement for further updates. Also, let us know if you are playing for a college/university so that we can add your name to the list.

    

Quotes: "For the love of the game" 

"This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that was good and could be good again."

James Earl Jones as Terrance Mann, in 'Field of Dreams'

"Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in softball."

Tom Hanks as the veteran manager in 'A League of Their Own'

"Am I proud of him? Well, sure, I'm proud of him as my son. But as a ballplayer, ask in fifteen years."

Cal Ripken Sr. on Cal Ripken Jr. at age twenty-two

"The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness."

Lionel Barrymore

"Reputation is what you have when you come to a new softball team. Character is what you have when you go away."

William Hersey Davis  

"It is not flesh and blood but heart that makes us fathers, mothers and daughters."

Friedrich von Schiller

"it's all part of the psychology of softball. But the saddest words of all to a pitcher are three - take her out.

Christy Mathewson