Last year San Diego State’s softball team won the UCLA Regional, beat Utah in Game 1 of the Super Regional, and came one win shy of their first Women’s College World Series appearance. This year the Aztecs are headed back to Westwood on another roll.
“I struggle with anxiety and it was a very anxious environment for me because I've never played in that big of a crowd before,” says Barbara of last year’s Super-Regional trip to Utah. “I literally was having panic attacks because I was like, I'm so scared. I don't want people to think I'm terrible, even though I know I'm not. But it's almost like you kind of worry about what the outside is going to think and I think that’s something that I have never experienced before.
“I think when I'm on the field and I had a bad day, but I'm on the field, it honestly just makes me feel a lot better because at least I know my day wasn't as bad as I thought it was,” says Barbara. “There could have been a lot worse that went on. But I got to play softball, I got to be at practice, I got to be the field that day, I got to put on a uniform and I got to put on cleats. There are so many people that wish they could do that.