*** Note: today’s blog is ultra important so please watch the video! All you athletes play out in the sun for hours on end and skin cancer is vitally important to know about and I speak from personal experience, having lost a family member at age 36 to Melanoma (skin cancer).
— Brentt Eads, Full Count Softball

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This week, USA TODAY published its American Family Insurance ALL-USA Preseason Softball Team and one of the 20 outstanding players across the nation to make the team was Tamara “T” Statman, the outstanding senior pitcher/infielder from Horizon High in Scottsdale, Ari.

Last year she won 20 games in the circle with 289 K’s and also hit .515. In the last week, she led the Lady Huskies to a 6-0 record in the Dobson/Marcos De Niza Invitational Tournament and capped the championship game win with a one-hit shutout.

T is one of the most compelling softball players at any level we’ve ever met for a variety of reasons: she’s a:

• 4.0 student
• 1^st Team All-American
• 2015 Hot 100 honoree
• 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo
• member of her school’s student government
• big proponent of fighting skin cancer and has started a program called “T’s K’s for Skin Cancer” where she partnered with the Arizona Skin Cancer Foundation to raise money for each strikeout she records (her goal this year: 300 K’s or higher!).

Today’s video blog focuses on the last item on the above list as T explains why she wears long-sleeves under her jersey – it’s because skin cancer runs in her family – and has an exclusive interview with Dr. Richard L. Averitte Jr., MD who is the head of the Arizona Skin Cancer Foundation.

If you want more exclusive player insights, click here to see blogs from T and our other softball standouts!

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