Gina Snyder graduated from Sahuaro High School in 2014 where she was an outstanding student and athlete. Softball is Gina’ sport and she excelled at Sahuaro helping the softball team reach the State Play-offs all four years. She earned All-Southern Arizona honors all four years at Sahuaro. Gina also played ASA softball on many different teams during her career.
Some of her highlights include pitching for the Arizona Aztecs in a 1st Place win in 2011, contributing to her team winning a National tournament with the as a member of Arizona Desert Thunder Gold, and pitching to help her team Aztec team at the Triple Crown Cool
Summer Classic and the Whole Enchilada Tournament in 2011.
Her softball career continued at Purdue University. After pitching for two seasons at Purdue her record was 12-11 . She appeared in 44 games and was nominated for Big Ten Pitcher of the Week in 2016 twice . Gina then suffered from a mysterious brain injury where she had to defy all odds and work physically and mentally to return to an elite pitching level. After time Gina decided to walk on at the University of Arizona softball team. Coach Mike Candrea stated that “Gina handled the transfer situation as well as all good athletes do when challenged by working hard and earning her right to perform”. Gina’s greatest accomplishment at the U of A was when she pitched a shutout game against the #1 ranked Japan softball team at an exhibition game in Palm Springs.
Gina has gone on to coach softball at the University of North Florida, play professional softball in a league known as Athletes Unlimited, and coach many accomplished young women on many different youth softball teams . She has been interviewed on many talk shows and platforms and was selected to throw out the Ceremonial First Pitch at the Arizona Diamondbacks Game in 2019 for overcoming her brain injury and successfully returning to the game of softball.