Baseball umpire Jen Pawol will make history as the first woman to work as an umpire in a Major League Baseball regular season game, crossing a historic gender barrier.

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Jen Powell will become the first woman to umpire a regular season Major League Baseball game, officiating during the Braves and Marlins series in Atlanta. Powell has spent ten years as a professional umpire, working more than 1,200 minor league games and participating in spring training, but this marks her first official call-up to the major leagues.

Kim Ang, the first female general manager in MLB history, congratulated Powell and highlighted the significance of this achievement for women in baseball. Ang emphasized the importance of perseverance and focus, noting the pressures that come with breaking new ground. The interview also touched on the professionalism required to overcome distractions and maintain high standards in sports.

First female umpire to work regular MLB season games

an historic Major League Baseball debut. Jen Powell will become the first woman to umpire a regular season Major League Baseball game when she works the Braves and Marlins series this weekend in Atlanta. Powell has been a professional umpire for a decade and has worked over 1,200 minor league games, but outside of some spring training games, she hadn't been called up to the big leagues until now. A Hofstra softball alum, Powell says, she was overwhelmed with emotion when she got the call, but feels like a fully charged battery, her words, and ready to go. Joining us right now is a barrier breaker in her own right. Kim Ang was the first female general manager of a Major League Baseball team, the Miami Marlins, and is currently commissioner of the Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball League. Great to see you again, Kim. Hi, how are you? Thank you very much for having me. Great, so how big of a moment is this, in your view, for women and for Major League Baseball, and how exciting is it that we would learn that her first game will be a Miami Marlins game? Yeah, first, huge congratulations to Jen. Such a long road, such hard work that she's put into this, and from what I understand, she deserves every single moment that she's gonna encounter here. In terms of for women in baseball, huge, great step. We've seen scouts, coaches, front office executives, medical professionals, women coming through the pipeline, but for us to take this next step in the umpiring field is just huge for everyone, so huge congratulations. Yeah, and there's so much pressure when you were the first woman doing something. You know that, you broke the glass ceiling as the first female general manager in MLB history. Do you have any advice sort of about maybe that pressure you felt or how you dealt with it for Powell as she's breaking a glass ceiling of her own here? Yeah, you know, I said this at my press conference, it was a lot of pressure to get there, but it's just as much, if not more pressure to stay and to really make your mark and understand, make people understand that you can do this job. So my advice to Jen is to just work hard as she has and to be singularly focused. There is a distraction out there right now, and I gotta ask you about it, and we're talking about on the WNBA courts, you've got some knuckleheads who are throwing sex toys on the court. You know, they're calling it now a prank, but we know it's a distraction and we also know it's very demeaning. So where are you on this? What do you think is going on here? What do you think is behind it, really? You used a great word, those are knuckleheads. You know, and I think that, you know, in terms of the athletes and coaching staffs and, you know, all the personnel, you know, we've endured a lot of, you know, poor behavior in the past, and this is just, you know, chalk it up, this is just another example, but, you know, these women are such professionals. I know that they're going to ignore it and not let it interrupt their play.

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