A standout college softball player has made history with an impressive record-setting pitch. Karlyn Pickens, a 6-foot-1 junior pitcher at Tennessee, is one of the top pitchers in the game. The North Carolina native was a consensus first-team All-American as a sophomore in 2024.

A thrown pitch of 78.2 mph from the softball rubber is equivalent to 100 mph-plus from a baseball mound, though there's a decent amount of disagreement about the physics and conve