Georgina Corrick is a softball-hurling superstar.
She was transcendent at the University of South Florida -- putting up a 113-32 record with a 1.04 ERA in five seasons. She's the school's all-time leader in no-hitters, perfect games, starts, complete games, wins, strikeouts and any other stat you know or don't know.
She helped Great Britain -- her homeland -- win Silver at the 2024 WBSC European Championships. She's already in the British Softball Hall of Fame.
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She's played pro ball in Japan's Diamond League the last two seasons and this year, she's pitching for the Talons -- the No. 1 seed trying to win a championship this weekend in the groundbreaking AUSL. She's been the best pitcher on that circuit, too, going 6-0 with a league-leading 2.04 ERA and four saves. She was just named Pitcher of the Year.
Corrick obviously loves the game she's been playing her whole life. She loves to talk about it.
But there's one other thing she might love even more.
"I love that, I love talking about my marine biology," Corrick beamed, lighting up at the question. "When I was looking at colleges I wanted to go to when I was 14 or 15, USF was on the top of my list because they had a really good marine biology program. Since I was passionate about it, and I'd been passionate about it for so long, I thought it'd be something I'd be able to balance really well with softball."
Corrick basically grew up in the ocean. After moving from Basingstoke, England, as a toddler, her family settled in Port Charlotte, Fla. -- the small seaside town with easy access to the fish-rich Gulf of Mexico.
"Pretty much every single day, my parents would let me go to the beach," Corrick told MLB.com. "I fell in love with the ocean. I fell in love with the water."
She also fell in love with the conservation part of it. Corrick took diving classes in middle school, she visited aquariums and then, when she hit high school, her dad delivered her a special present.
"When I was 15, my dad actually gifted me scuba-diving lessons," Corrick said. "And he and I got scuba-certified together, which was really sweet and something I got to share with him."
This all, eventually, led to that marine biology major at USF.
Meanwhile, on land, inside the circle, she was untouchable.
Corrick threw two of those perfect games, part of seven career no-hitters as a Bull. She even pulled off a Johnny Van Der Meer, tossing back-to-back no-nos in 2021.
Corrick says her interest in the ocean gave her something off the field to be just as intense about as softball. Still, you can tell her off-the-diamond passion can sometimes influence the mentality of her on-the-diamond one -- especially when she starts talking about one of the ocean's top predators.
"I fell in love with sharks when I was really, really young," Corrick said. "It's cool to see this species that hasn't changed in hundreds of millions of years, while also maintaining itself at the top of the food chain. ... I learned about the apex predators, but in order to know about the apexes, you have to know about the things that are under them and under them.
"Before you realize it, you've built this kind of complex web of things that leads to this one really cool thing. I take this ideology into other parts of my life. So when i wanna focus on myself, I have to worry about all the things that are feeding into me. If something's not where I want it to be, I have to look at some of those other sources and trace them back up to where I want to go."
Some sage, introspective life advice from a 26-year-old. To put it a bit simpler ...
"Be like a shark, you know?" Corrick laughed.
Even with a robust softball schedule spanning multiple countries and leagues, Corrick still finds time for her underwater adventures. She does volunteer work, she has plans to visit Japan's Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium -- one of the biggest in the world -- and, of course, every fall, she makes a trip home to Florida to dive with her dad.
Most importantly, she just continues to read and prepare for a potential life she got that hard-earned degree in.
"[The ocean's] changing so often and so fast," Corrick said. "When I finish my softball career, I'd like to go back into it. So, it's important that I'm still educated on the things that were important 10 years ago and to see if they're still important now."
First, though, it's time to try to win an AUSL championship.