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The 1983 National Collegiate women's slow-pitch softball championship was held in Graham, North Carolina, near Raleigh, on May 5–7.This was the first year after the demise of the AIAW, which had conducted the previous two national title tournaments in 1981 and 1982.
Over that last weekend of August 1968, the first USSSA world softball tournament was played in West Allis, Wisconsin. Over the past 40 years USSSA has grown from a couple of thousand slow-pitch softball players to over 3.5 million participants playing 13 primary sports. In fact, USSSA sanctions teams and individuals in 38 sports.
The USA Softball adult program began in 1934. With over 170,000 teams, 2.5 million players, and 500,000 coaches involved on an annual basis, the adult program is the largest USA Softball program. USA Softball provides programs of competition for adults including fast pitch, slow pitch and modified pitch for men and women.
After the last AIAW competition, collegiate national championships in slow-pitch softball were conducted in 1983 and 1984 by the Amateur Softball Association. [14] [15] The University of South Florida won both. It appears that most of the college women's slow-pitch teams at that time were from Florida and North Carolina.
The AIAW conducted only two slow-pitch softball national championships, in 1981 and 1982, as the NCAA sought to and eventually did vanquish the women's collegiate athletic organization. The Amateur Softball Association later held two collegiate slow-pitch championship tournaments in 1983 and 1984.
Oct. 24—Last season's State 3A/2A champion slowpitch softball team from Mt. Spokane was a senior-laden crew and used its No. 2 seed to move through the two-day bracket to upend league rival and ...
Five OKC-area slowpitch softball players to watch. Karsen Griggs, Sr., Dale: Griggs has the 8-1 Pirates dominating Class 4A in their early quest for another state title.The Kansas signee was named ...
The professional softball era showcased some of the all-time best in softball history with several pro era veterans represented in the American Softball Association Hall of Fame - Tex Collins (Detroit), Ron Ford (Detroit), Jim Galloway (New York, Trenton), Bill Gatti (Kentucky), Mike Gouin (Detroit), Dennis Graser (Milwaukee), Mike Nye (Detroit ...