Tennessee Diamonds Softball

Monica Abbott speaks to some fans before a game

Nashville's newest pro sports team is the Tennessee Diamonds, the women's pro fastpitch softball team.

The Diamonds are one of four teams in the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) women's softball league.

There are four teams this year in the NPF: USSSA Pride (based in Florida); Chicago Bandits; Akron Racers; and the Tennessee Diamonds.

The League was founded in 1997 and has made a resurgent comeback as of late. The league used to have six teams.

The league definitely boasts the top women's softball players in the nation and the world, most of them recent college grads who play in the summer and often coach during the school year.

The Diamonds have two former Tennessee stars- pitcher Monica Abbott and catcher Shannon Doepking, both former UT college stars.

Abbott is one of the greatest college softball pitchers of all time. She is originally from Salinas, California, in Monterey County on the Pacific Ocean.

The Diamonds roster and every NPF squad is full of softball stars, most of them from NCAA powerhouse programs across the nation.

The Diamonds have players from coast to coast and from virtually every major NCAA conference- the SEC, ACC, Big 12, PAC-10 and more.