At first blush, neither Dawson nor Devyn Netz saw a future in Tucson — let alone together. But now, the University of Arizona baseball/softball siblings wouldn’t have it any other way.
Jon Gold Special to the Arizona Daily Star Every so often, when the weight of schoolwork and social priorities and opposing batters with sweet swings brings them down, the Netz siblings — Dawson and Devyn — will hop into a car together and head up to Oro Valley for a family meal with parents Dan and Lisa, forgetting their troubles for a night.
“My husband and I agree that these sports did our parenting for us,” Lisa said. “It taught them the beauty of discipline. It formed a natural longing to be better. In every area of their life, they began competing. It was important to me that they didn’t have a fear of failure, a fear of authority.”Especially if they’re able to rely on each other for support, which they have already during their Tucson tenures. Sometimes it’s on those visits home.
They grew up in the shadow of UCLA in Pasadena — “five minutes from the Rose Bowl,” Dawson said — starring for Maranatha High School. “About a year later was watching YouTube videos of Lowe and Coach Candrea and Coach T,” she added of UA softball head coach Caitlin Lowe, longtime former coach Mike Candrea and assistant coach Taryne Mowatt-McKinney, a legend in the circle herself not terribly long ago. “And I was like, ‘Wow, I really like this staff, the way they teach the game, this is the exact way my travel ball coaches taught. This was the standard of expectations.
“I remember after camp, I said, ‘I want to be a Wildcat, I want to win a national championship with you.’ The next day, Iveson said we want you to come on a trip, and I think it was when Rita Hillenbrand Stadium just opened, and I committed that weekend.”
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