Bernadette Ponder

Player

Inducted 1999

 

Bernadette Ponder started playing softball in her early teens on the sandlots with the boys.  She went on to play for Bayside High School and was a standout player.  From 1977 through 1988, she played with the Travelers, a Hall of Fame team.  During that time, she played in six Metro tournaments, two Regional tournaments and six National tournaments.  In 1989, her team won the Class B National tournament in Drifton, Pennsylvania, and she was selected to the All-Star Team.  Bernadette also played on the Y-Not Co-Ed Team.  They won two TVASA Championships and she was MVP both times.  In all, she won fifteen MVP awards, TVASA All-Star three times and three times won the homerun contest.  Bernadette was also selected to the TVASA Defensive Team twice.