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The United States women's national softball team is the national softball team of the United States. It is governed by USA Softball (formerly known as the Amateur Softball Association) and takes part in international softball competitions. The US team has been successful in international play, taking three straight gold medal in Olympic Games ...
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.
16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball, [1] cabbageball, [2][3] puffball, blooperball, smushball, [4] and Chicago ball[5][6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders. It more closely resembles the original game as ...
Fastpitch softball, or simply fastpitch, is a form of softball played by both women and men. While the teams are most often segregated by sex, coed fast-pitch leagues also exist. Considered the most competitive form of softball, fastpitch is the format played at the Olympic Games. Softball was on the International Olympic Committee (IOC ...
World Games. 2022 Birmingham. Team. Kinzie Hansen (born October 12, 2001) is an American professional softball player for the Oklahoma City Spark of the Association of Fastpitch Professionals (AFP) and is a member of the United States women's national softball team. She played college softball at Oklahoma where she won the Women's College World ...
Dot began her softball career in 1972 playing for the Union Park Jets in Orlando. [6] In early 1975, at the age of 13, Dot was a member of the Orlando Rebels in the ASA (Amateur Softball Association of America), She became the youngest player ever to play in the ASA Women's Major Fast-Pitch National Championships. [5]
ASA has since rebranded to USA Softball on January 1, 2017, and is the national governing body of softball in the United States. Minnesota Softball is governed by a board of directors and consists of approximately 176 community based youth associations, 16 club youth associations, and 60 adult leagues who are formed into 7 districts.
Team. Amanda Marie Chidester (born April 11, 1990) is an American former professional softball player and current assistant coach for Michigan. She was named National Pro Fastpitch Player of the Year for the Chicago Bandits in 2019. [2] She has been a member of the USA Softball Women's National Team on-and-off since 2012.