On Monday, we announced the dates for the upcoming FINAL 2021 Extra Elite 100 rankings and all that goes with it!
As we prepare for the final series of ratings for this senior class, we’ll look at some of those who have been featured in the past.
Jordyn Bahl, the outstanding pitcher headed to Oklahoma and ranked #1 overall in the last 2021 Extra Elite 100, continues to impress and is a strong candidate for another Top 10 finish.
Two weeks ago, Jordyn was the MaxPreps/NFCA High School Player of the Week (Sept. 14-20) after she led her Papillion-LaVista (Nebraska) High team to the title at the Monarch Invitational.
She went 5-0 with a 0.00 ERA and had 59 K’s and no walks in 27 innings pitched which included a pair of run-rule no-hitters (three and four innings) and she also lit up the field offensively batting .474 (9 for 19) with six home runs and 13 RBIs in six games.
This summer, Jordyn helped lead the Beverly Bandits 18U – Conroy club powerhouse to the championship of the Connect Sports tournament in Dalton, Georgia, played July 30-August 1.
She was 4-0 pitching in the tournament, with three starts and one win in relief, pitching 26 innings against numerous highly-rated batters, giving up five earned runs for a 1.37 ERA. Bahl gave up just 11 hits and struck out 41 batters while walking only three.
At the plate, her 7th inning two-run home run tied the game against the Fury Platinum 18U and the Bandits went on to win 4-3 in extra innings and Jordyn also earned the win. The Bandits defeated Georgia Firecrackers Premier-Cochran twice to win the championship and she was the winning pitcher in the first game, while Regan Krause (2020, Stanford signee) pitched a three-hitter in the final, a seven inning, 4-0 win.
We’ve followed Jordyn a lot over the last few years and in February published these 15 FUN FACTS ABOUT HER:
1. Jordyn has a dog and two cats who are “near and dear to her:” Sasha, a long-haired German Shepherd; Misha, a tabby cat and Noel, a tortie cat.
2. She loves listening to ‘90’s country music. Her favorite country artists are Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Toby Keith and Tracy Lawrence.
3. She enjoys spending time in the outdoors fishing, hunting and hiking. Says mom, Emily: “She enjoys doing these with her brothers, but picked it all up from her dad!”
4. She enjoys trap-shooting (spending time with her brothers).
5. Her favorite vacation spot is Panama City Beach, Florida. Adds her mom: “We go there once every few years with extended family. It’s a place one of her grandmothers has vacationed at since childhood, so Jordy’s dad also grew up vacationing here.”
6. She is very patriotic and her favorite holiday is the Fourth of July.
7. Her dream is to live on a rural acreage and own horses.
8. She used to be a dancer and took lessons for several years including ballet, tap and jazz… now she sticks to line dancing.
9. On two different occasions, she lost baby teeth while on the field during games. She had to call time and walk the tooth over to her coach! Mom thinks she was 12 or 13-years-old at the time (“she lost her teeth late. They weren’t knocked out, they just fell out. I think she was pitching both times.”).
10. Her favorite food is hamburger and fries.
11. She likes watching sunsets and taking pictures of them.
12. She won’t eat salad dressing; she eats her lettuce plain.
13. Her favorite gift was a personalized softball glove: Jordy Bahl #22.
14. For a career, her mother says “this changes a lot. Right now, she is thinking of majoring in Education to be a history teacher. She is also interested in coaching.”
15. If she has a daughter someday, she’d like to name her “Liberty.”
We also profiled in January and here’s a look at the article which got a ton of positive reviews for how well Jordyn presented herself…
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2021 Extra Elite 100 Profile: Jordyn Bahl… “I Have a Greater Purpose Than Just Softball”
Originally published Jan. 29, 2020 on Extra Inning Softball
Native Nebraskan Jordyn Bahl was already considered one of the top 2021 prospects in the nation heading into the PGF Nationals last summer.
But now she will climb to the upper tier of the 2021 Extra Elite 100 after leading Iowa Premier Gold to a fifth-place finish at the PGF 16U Premier Nationals and helping Papillion-La Vista High of Papillion, NE, to its second state championship in the past three years and to No. 1 in the nation in the Extra Elite Eighty Fall High School Rankings.
Bahl turned in a spectacular effort for the Monarchs during their national championship run, batting .581 with 22 homers, 41 runs scored and 59 RBIs and going 27-0 with a 0.15 ERA and 299 strikeouts in 139 innings.
The future Oklahoma Sooner hopes to turn the newly-formed Nebraska Thunder Gold, which features five of her Papillion-La Vista teammates, into a national power at 18U this summer.
As successful as she had been on the field, however, Bahl points out that softball is low on the list of priorities in life, which, ironically, has actually helped the junior between the lines.
“In the past year, I learned that God didn’t put me here to play softball,” she believes. “I have a greater purpose than that, as does everyone else.”
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