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Off the Field: Softball Community Rallies Around Castorri Family After Devasting House Fire (Aug. 16, 2024)

By Brentt Eads

August 16, 2024

Off the Field: Softball Community Rallies Around Castorri Family After Devasting House Fire (Aug. 16, 2024)

The Castorri family, including softballers Summer and Emma (far right), lost their home after an August 8 fire. A GoFundMe was organized and raised over four times the original goal.

One of the things I love most about working in the fastpitch world is how impressively supportive everyone is within the softball community.

Emma Castorri, a sophomore at Georgia. Photo: Georgia SID.

Take the awful incident last week where the Castorri family—led by parents Christian and Jen Castorri and softball-playing daughters Emma, a current sophomore utility player at the University of Georgia, and Summer, a standout 2026 athlete who plays for the Mojo travel ball team coached by Brittany Lewis—lost their home in Buford, Georgia, due to a devastating house fire.

Originally, a GoFundMe was set for $5,000 but, barely over a week since the money-raiser was started on August 8, 2024, the original goal has been exceeded by four-fold ($20,767 at the time of this posting.)

*** Click HERE to access the GoFundMe for the Castorri family

Summer, who plays at Buford (Ga.) High.

Impressively, 168 donations were made in the initial week of the GoFundMe including a $1,500 donation from the Mojo club program itself.

“The Castorri family are some of the most kind and generous people in our community,” Coach Lewis says, “and now it’s time to give back to them. Summer is a great softball player, friend, and a believer, and we praise God for looking out for her and her family.”

Of course, the $20K-plus—while wonderfully benevolent—won’t get the family of seven’s home and possessions restored, at least not right away, but is a starting point.

We at Line Drive Softball encourage everyone who reads this to consider making a donation to continue to help a family that’s “one of our own.”

Brentt Eads/Line Drive Softball

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Pictured below: a screenshot of the initial social message sent out by the Mojo travel organization.

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