Dutch national team player Britt Vonk is going to join Bollate Softball of the Italian Softball League for the 2017 season. She is scheduled to arrive in Italy on March 15. Vonk won the Australian championship last winter with Queensland and then joined the Scrap Yard Dawks in the American professional league NPF. The 25-year-old from Enschede participated for the Netherlands in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing at the age of 17. She also attended the University of California in Berkeley.