University of North Carolina Athletics
McKinney Featured In "New Yorker" Story
August 27, 2013 | Softball
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Former Tar Heel catcher Brittany McKinney, now a catcher for the Comets - a National Pro Fastpitch team- is featured in an article in this week's issue of The New Yorker magazine.
McKinney was a standout player for Carolina from 2008-10, earning All-ACC honors in 2009 and All-ACC academic honors three times. She is now an assistant coach at UNC Greensboro.
Find the full article here.
Throw Like a Girl, by Ben McGrath:
"In this week's issue, Ben McGrath writes about the New York/New Jersey Comets, one of the metro area's newest professional sports teams. The Comets are one of four teams in National Pro Fastpitch, a women's professional softball league, and while their début season hasn't always been marked by success on the field, the players bring a real sense of purpose to their daily rituals on the diamond. Brittany McKinney, a Comets catcher, notes, 'We're role models for the younger girls who want to go pro; doing what we do on the field is just so much bigger than ourselves.'"
