Daily Trojan

Keira Izumi, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, was part of the inaugural season of the Women’s Pro Baseball League. She played alongside bona fide stars like Mo’ne Davis, who gained fame during the 2014 Little League World Series, and Olivia Pichardo, a Brown University pitcher who became the first woman to pitch in NCAA Division I baseball history.

After the season ended in September of this year, Izumi set her focus elsewhere, to a topic she deemed new and exciting: the possibility of a Division I women’s baseball team at USC.

While there are currently no such teams in the country, the expansion and growth of the WPBL could kickstart a change. With baseball quickly growing popular among young girls, all the way to co-ed teams in high school, the idea is not far-fetched and, in fact, entirely possible.

The main goal of this project for Izumi is to promote giving young girls a role model to look up to, as she never had one in the past. With her success on the diamond, though, she is becoming one herself.

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