Jennie was one of the pitching stars of the powerhouse Olympic team that won softball in 2004 and took the silver in 2008. They were 7-0 in the prelims both years, but in the 2008 Olympics they dropped the final game (3-1) to Japan, a team they had easily bested (7-0) in the prelims.
That 2004 team was one of the most dominating squads in the history of sports. In the preliminary rounds they never allowed a run, outscoring the opposition 41-0.
They also shut out the opposition in the semi-finals, but their bid for perfection was spoiled in the second-last inning of the finals, when their pitching ace Lisa Fernandez, pitching on no days of rest, finally allowed a run to the Aussies in the second-last inning of a blow-out victory.
Jennie Finch pitched two shut-outs for that 2004 team, then duplicated that feat in 2008, giving her a lifetime Olympic ERA of 0.00. In her junior year of college she was 32-0 for Arizona, leading them to a national championship. SI picked her as the #2 D-1 softball player of all time, behind only the aforementioned Lisa Fernandez.