It’s easy to feel the energy oozing from Jessie Harper, even though she’s on a phone call from the opposite coast. She hated phone calls once, as a kid born in 1998 who grew up with text ...

Weeks before events beyond her control all but ensured she would become college softball's greatest home run hitter, Jessie Harper made a compelling case of her own with two swings -- and neither ...

Softball is fun to me ... they hit 20 home runs as a freshman and think that they’ve arrived? I know Jessie Harper wasn’t that type of kid. She would continue to work and keep herself in ...

“She eats, breathes and lives softball,” MaKenna said ... As sisters, MaKenna and Jessie Harper have a close bond, but through the competitive nature they share, there is also certainly a sisterly ...

California in May of 1998 to Jim and Danielle Harper. Both of her parents were Division I athletes: dad played football at Colorado and mom played softball at Cal State Northridge. She has one sister, ...

Weeks before events beyond her control all but ensured she would become college softball's greatest home run hitter, Jessie Harper made a compelling case of her own with two swings -- and neither ...

nothing quite stuck for Jessie and younger sister MaKenna like softball. “I think the connection of my mom playing softball drew it to me a little bit more,” Harper said, adding that Jim, who played ...