Washougal softball senior sensation Paige Forsberg has been an all-league player since she was a freshman and has the second-highest batting average of any player in Washougal softball history.
Last year, her pitching was so good, the United States Coast Guard Academy flew Forsberg to New London, Connecticut, and offered her a scholarship to play softball. It was a dream come true for the Washougal High senior, who has studied and played the game she loves since age 6.
Even more exciting, was the fact that Forsberg was about to start her senior year with the Panthers softball team and play with six other seniors, many of whom she has played softball with since grade school.
But life doesn’t always go as expected, and Forsberg is learning that tough lesson at an early age.
For Forsberg, life started to change in the fall of her senior year, after a sore back turned into full-blown back surgery and then into a rescinded softball scholarship offer from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. And if that wasn’t devastating enough for the Washougal teenager, she was now facing a senior season without the sport she had loved since childhood.