Lauren Bay-Regula back in action, 13 years later

Lauren Bay-Regula is exactly where she wants to be. Thirteen years since the last time she played Olympic fastball, the pitcher is back on the mound, throwing heat and helping a team of mostly much younger players wrap their heads around playing the game at the highest possible level. Just a few weeks before their first tilt (a four- nothing win over Mexico) and a few days more before the Tokyo opening ceremonies, Anastasia Bucsis caught up with the mother of three, and second time around baller. It has not been an easy return to full time sport for Bay-Regula, or her business partner/husband. But he and the kids got behind her dream. She needed every bit of that support while she was working her way through a serious post partum depression, and the lingering miserable memories of having missed the podium by a tiny margin back in 2008. Compared to that, throwing fastballs for the first time in more than a decade was a piece of cake.