{"id":8694,"date":"2011-03-03T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2011-03-03T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:17:47","slug":"assistant-coaches-announced-for-usa-women-and-jr-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Coaches Announced for USA Women and Jr. Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click logo for official press release.<\/figcaption><\/figure>From the ASA Softball website:<\/a><\/p>\n
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Assistant coaches announced<\/strong>
\n3\/3\/2011<\/p>\n

OKLAHOMA CITY \u2013 The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today the full coaching staffs for the USA Softball Women\u2019s National Team and USA Softball Junior Women\u2019s National Team for competitions in 2011. With Ken Eriksen (Tampa, Fla.\/Head Coach at USF) and Karen Johns (Whippany, N.J.) at the head of the Women\u2019s and Junior Women\u2019s programs respectively, the assistants for the year include nine different coaches with three making first-time coaching appearances with the USA Softball Women\u2019s National Team program and one with the Junior Women\u2019s National Team program. <\/p>\n

Joining Head Coach Johns on the Junior Women\u2019s National Team staff are Suzy Brazney (Huntington Beach, Calif.\/Head Coach at Golden West College), Stacy Iveson (Prescott Valley, Ariz.\/Head Coach at Yavapai College), Tony Rico (Huntington Beach, Calif.\/Coach for the Worth Firecrackers) and Joe Salvatore (Monroe Township, N.J.\/Coach for New Jersey Breakers). Rico, coach of the Worth Firecrackers, is making his first coaching appearance with the program while the three other assistants were instrumental in the team\u2019s Gold Medal showing at the III Pan American Championship in Bogota, Colombia, in August. <\/p>\n

In preparation for the International Softball Federation (ISF) Junior Women\u2019s World Championships, Dec. 6-17, 2011 in Cape Town, Africa, the 2010-11 Junior Women\u2019s National Team will compete against the 2011 Women\u2019s National Team at three exhibition sites. <\/p>\n

For information on tickets to the exhibitions in Tampa, Fla., Salem, Va., and Bowie, Md., please go to www.usasoftball.com. Tickets for the Salem and Bowie exhibitions are currently on sale. <\/p>\n

The USA Softball Women\u2019s National Team will have four different sets of assistant coaches to assist Eriksen in a winning season. The staff features new faces including Olympic Gold Medalists Tairia Flowers (Tucson, Ariz.\/Head Coach at Cal State Northridge) and Stacey Nuveman (La Verne, Calif.\/Assistant Coach at San Diego State), who retired their cleats following the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Mike White (Eugene, Ore.\/Head Coach at the University of Oregon) is also making his first appearance with the team following a successful career as a USA Softball athlete in the Men\u2019s Fast Pitch National Team Program. <\/p>\n

The following are the assignments for this summer with the selection of the staff for the Pan American Games, October 17-23 in Guadalajara, Mexico, to be made after the Women\u2019s National Team Selection Camp, June 13-17 in Chula Vista, Calif. <\/p>\n

Exhibitions
\nJune 25, 2011 in Tampa, Fla.
\nMike Larabee (Fayetteville, Ark.\/Head Coach at Arkansas), Nuveman and White
\nJune 29, 2011 in Salem, Va.
\nFlowers, Larabee, White
\nJuly 1, 2011 in Bowie, Md.
\nFlowers, Larabee, White <\/p>\n

Canadian Open Fast Pitch Women\u2019s International Championship
\nJuly 9-17, 2011
\nLarabee, Nuveman and White <\/p>\n

World Cup of Softball VI
\nJuly 21-25, 2011
\nFlowers, Nuveman and White <\/p>\n

Japan Cup
\nJuly 28-31, 2011
\nKate Drohan (Chicago, Ill.\/Head Coach at Northwestern) and White
\n{Additional coach may be announced at a later date) <\/p>\n

Pan American Games
\nOct. 17-23, 2011
\nCoaches to be announced after Selection Camp <\/p>\n

Drohan, Gordon Eakin (Provo, Utah\/Head Coach at BYU), Flowers, Iveson, Larabee, Nuveman, Karen Weekly (Knoxville, Tenn.\/Co-Head Coach at Tennessee) and White will all serve as coaches at the Selection Camp. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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