Caitlin Colvin, born in San Pedro, Calif., on Nov. 30, 1990, is the MVP PT's Most Valuable Female Player for 2009. At Bonney Lake High School, she has excelled on the softball diamond, leading the Panthers to several league championships and a fourth-place finish in the 2008 3A State Tournament. She will graduate from Bonney Lake this spring and will attend Ohio University on an athletic scholarship in the fall.

According to Bonney Lake fastpitch coach Dave Loveless, Caitlin is “the first to serve and not to be served, first to encourage another player, first to lead by example and is always positive to her teammates.”

Wayne Miller, Caitlin's coach with the Washington Ladyhawks Gold, has called her “a proven winner,” and the statistics support this case. She has earned all-league recognition each year she has played at Bonney Lake. In 2008, Colvin established herself as a top pitcher in Washington State. She earned first-team all-league, League MVP pitcher and second-team all-state honors that season, compiling a 0.95 earned run average in 166 innings pitched, striking out 253 batters. She also batted .430 at the plate.

This Spring has been more of the same for Colvin, who hit .446 for the season. She led the Bonney Lake Panthers to yet another SPSL 3A League Championship with a perfect record. For the season, Caitlin gave up six earned runs to opposing teams in 115 innings pitched. Equally impressive, her ERA was a miniscule 0.36 with 202 strikeouts while opponents could only muster a .090 batting average against her.