From the Softball Victoria Website The National Umpiring Committee is proud to announce that Softball Australia’s National Umpiring Program has produced a fresh batch of ISF accredited umpires. During the ISF Umpire Clinic for the Oceania region held in Redlands Queensland and on-diamond at the John Reid Shield (Open Men’s)and Gilley’s Shield (Open Women’s) National … [Read more...]
New Stadium in Auckland for 2013 ISF ?
From the Aucklander By Joanna Davies North Shore softballers are pitching for a new stadium in time for the world champs, they tell Joanna Davies. The pine-green clubrooms at Rosedale Park are Auckland's home of softball. This is where parents from much of the region bring their children at weekends, and where they stand around the diamond if they're not early … [Read more...]
Team Canada 2011 Sr. Men’s National Team Pool Named
Update: Cap tip to Adam Brown of the Eastern Ontario Fastball Blog (Fitzroy Fastball blogspot) who picked up this story on Monday. Cap tip Ivan Taylor for passing along on Facebook. Thanks, guys. If you've not visited the Eastern Ontario Fastball Blog, we heartily recommend it. EOFB is a blog dedicated to news about the Greater Ottawa Fastball League and other … [Read more...]
USA Jr. Women’s Chelsea Goodacre
From the USA Softball Website Editor's note: Whether you are from the USA, or any country, which has their own team of "Chelsea Goodacres" - youngsters still pinching themselves about making the national team and being excited about the prospect of an upcoming international competition, I think you'll enjoy reading this. Her comment that best captured that … [Read more...]
New South Wales Australia Umpires Receive ISF Certification
From Southern District NSW Umpires Assoc: NSW Umpires Receive ISF Certification 21 February 2011 NSW umpires Howard Watt (Far North Coast), Amanda Houison and Ron Houison (Penrith City) have been successful in gaining their ISF Umpire Certification. Their journey started over 12 months ago and culminated in a three day clinic and on-field assessments at the Softball … [Read more...]
A look back – 2005 USA Jr. Men’s Team
As part of our recent redesign of the Fastpitchwest website, we are continuing to expand the content of our site, including some historical items, to provide some history to the game over the past decade. One recent addition is a page on the 2005 USA Jr. Men's team, which competed at Prince Edward Island. It is hard to believe it was just a bit over five years ago the … [Read more...]
Four New ISF Umpires from New Zealand
SNZs New ISF Umpires The Softball New Zealand Umpires wish to congratulate Mark Porteous (North Harbour), Rikki Tourangi (Auckland), Jeremy England (Wellington) and Dave Shedlock (Wellington) on attaining their International Softball Federation (ISF) Accreditation recently at the Australian Mens and Womens Open in Brisbane 22 - 26 February 2011. Supervised and examined by … [Read more...]