Charlotte Morgan has been named the head coach at Cal State Northridge (CSUN). Morgan was hired as the volunteer assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton earlier this summer, and spent the last few months in that role. Prior to her hiring at Fullerton, Morgan spent two years on staff at UT-Arlington, a tenure that ended following the 2019 season. She was part of the coaching staff that helped lead the Mavericks to the NISC tournament championship in 2019. In addition to her stint at UT-Arlington, Morgan’s resume includes time on staff at Maryland, Georgia Tech, and Oklahoma State. She also…
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When National Pro Fastpitch announced last week the cancellation of their 2021 summer season, the announcement included a reference to expected difficulties related to “quarantine requirements imposed on the international teams participating in NPF” and that those teams “would be hindered with entrance and exit requirements.” After the NPF made their announcement on December 3rd, the Canadian Wild of Southern Illinois – the professional franchise made up exclusively of members of the Team Canada roster – made an announcement of their own. “The Canadian Wild of Southern Illinois is excited to continue its partnership with Softball Canada to provide world-class…
The annual National Fastpitch Coaches Association convention, initially planned to be held in Dallas, Texas, is going virtual thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Set to run from December 9-11, the convention will include both live and pre-recorded content from dozens of college coaches, as well as others. Several aspects of the annual convention have been converted to a virtual format and will still take place, albeit in a new fashion. The informal, topic-specific Fireside Chats will return, as do Divisional caucuses and breakout sessions. A new segment being introduced to the virtual convention is the Down the Hallway series, which…
Saginaw Valley State has hired Christie Ambrosi as the program’s new head coach, the school announced last week. Ambrosi most recently was the head coach at Embry-Riddle Arizona, spending two leading the Eagles program. She collected 29-33 record during her tenure, and led the squad to the first-ever California Pacific Conference tournament appearance in program history with a berth in 2019. Prior to her stint at Embry-Riddle, Ambrosi spent a number years as a private instructor and clinician in the Kansas City area. The position at ERAU was her first at the collegiate level. During the 2000 Olympic Games in…
Loyola Marymount has named Christian Conrad as the program’s new pitching coach, the school announced in a statement on Thursday. Conrad’s hiring completes the inaugural coaching staff of new head coach Tairia Flowers. Following her own hiring earlier in the fall, Mysha Sataraka was hired as the top assistant at LMU after following Flowers over from CSUN, where she had held a similar position. Most recently, Conrad was the volunteer assistant coach at Florida State, where his duties included coaching first base for the Seminoles. This past summer, he was one of four “facilitators” who held coach-like roles during the…
The National Pro Fastpitch league has cancelled its 2021 summer season, according to a press release on Thursday morning. “Confronted with multiple COVID-related problems, the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) has decided to suspend games for the 2021 season,” the statement read. This is the second consecutive league to be cancelled in similar fashion. Reasons given for the early cancellation included the unavailability of home venues for the league’s member teams, as well as continued COVID-19 protocols and quarantine requirements imposed on international teams who also field teams in the league. Over the last few years of the league’s existence, it…
After playing for two of the nation’s most storied programs during the course of her collegiate career, Keeli Milligan had the opportunity to learn from some of the game’s top coaches. Suiting up as a Texas A&M Aggie for the first three years of her career gave Milligan the opportunity to play under Hall-of-Famer Jo Evans. After transferring to Louisiana-Lafayette for her senior season, Milligan reunited with Gerry Glasco, who had been on staff at A&M before taking over the Ragin’ Cajuns’ program. Despite that pedigree, though, entering the coaching world herself has never been part of the native Texan’s plans.…
Who is she? Shelby Stracher, a former catcher for the Towson Tigers. What is she known for? Stracher started 190 games in her four years at Towson, a career that spanned from 2015-18. She earned all-region first-team honors, along with an all-conference second-team nomination, as a sophomore and helped lead the Towson program to the first postseason appearance in program history with a berth in the 2018 NISC tournament. During her sophomore season, Stracher set the program’s single-season records for home runs, RBIs, and runs scored; in addition, her 41 career home runs remain the program’s all-time record. Here’s something interesting… One of…
How “Out of the Box” became a hit in the softball media space Listen to a few of their game broadcasts and you might have a hard time believing that Tom Canterbury and Gray Robertson have nearly a generational age gap between them. Catch a handful of their podcast episodes and you might find it surprising that the pair’s friendship only dates back a few years. Yet it’s that very friendship, and the resulting chemistry, that has driven the duo to the forefront of the softball media space. Canterbury and Robertson first partnered as the radio broadcast team for Alabama…
The 2021 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic has been cancelled, tournament officials announced on Tuesday morning. One of the nation’s most popular multi-team tournaments, “the Nutter” is held in Cathedral City, California and regularly features several dozen Division I teams, including many of the nation’s top-ranked programs. A listing of teams who were scheduled to play in the 2021 tournament includes Arizona, Cal State Fullerton, Missouri, Northwestern, Ohio State, Texas A&M, UCLA, and Washington, among others. “2020 has been a challenging time for everyone and sports are not immune to those issues,” tournament officials said in a statement. “Running an event…