As the wins start to pile up and the triple crowns keep coming, the numbers start to lose their meaning.
It’s hard to understand what 112-2 truly means. It seems made up.
Officially, Anna Leigh Waters isn’t unbeatable, but her success this season is something north of shocking. Victories don’t just happen, they are expected. She’s lost once in singles this season. She’s lost once in mixed doubles this season. That’s it.
And she didn’t lose this weekend, either.
Waters is Oklahoma softball, U-Conn women’s hoops. This is Serena Williams at her best and Tiger Woods at his most-dominant. This is all of that, rolled together and manifesting itself in the form of a 16 year-old who is on the most-positive, longest run since Forrest Gump went coast to coast.
Sunday at the Orange Cup Classic in San Clemente, Calif., Waters wrapped up a fourth tournament in a row without a loss and now has won 16 triple crowns in her career.
Waters earned a singles title against Catherine Parenteau, beat Parenteau and Tyson McGuffin, along with her partner Ben Johns in mixed doubles and then teamed with Parenteau for the women’s bracket championship with a victory against Irina Tereschenko and Etta Wright.
“This tournament, I was feeling a little bit of pressure,” Waters…
