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The Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department and partner Visit Bloomington will host USA Softball national championship tournaments in both 2022 and 2023. In 2022, Bloomington will host three tournaments, concurrently in July: The USA Softball Girls’ 14-under Class B Fastpitch Northern National, Girls’ 12-under Class A Fastpitch Northern National, and the Girls’ 10-under Class B […]
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The former spring training home to two Major League Baseball teams has undergone a rebranding as the Launch Pad Sports Complex, part of having management operations taken over by Sports Facilities Management. The venue in Cocoa, Florida, was formerly known as Coastal Florida Sports Park and originally built in 1964 as the spring training home […]
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Visit Johnson City in Tennessee will host the USA Softball Girls’ 18-Under Class A Fast Pitch National Championship at Winged Deer Park in 2023, it was announced at the annual USA Softball Council meeting in Oklahoma. The championship from July 17–23, 2023 will bring in 60 teams from around the region and officials said the […]
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The University of Oklahoma has received the biggest single gift toward a women’s program in its history to give the Sooners softball program a new venue that will overhaul the stadium and training facilities. Love’s Travel Stops has provided the lead and naming gift for the University of Oklahoma’s new softball stadium. The company has […]
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Perfect Game has named NCAA softball champion and Team USA member Destinee Martinez as its national director of softball operations. Martinez joins Perfect Game after seven years with USA Softball, including the past two years as managing director of sport development. Martinez was the main liaison between USA Softball and Major League Baseball, developing and […]
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Construction is scheduled to begin soon in College Station, Texas, on a new Texas Independence Ballpark in Midtown College Station with an eye toward attracting baseball and softball events to the region. The new facility will feature eight fields, batting cages, concession stands and more. The venue, officially called Independence Park, will be used to […]
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Perfect Game has announced that it will locate a 16-field complex spanning more than 100 acres in Cedar Park, Texas. President Jerry Ford announced that the youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service will build 16 turf baseball/softball fields spread across 112 acres as part of a complex that will include a convention center/hotel, […]
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The Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is getting a little bit more time in the destination. The NCAA’s Division I Competition Oversight Committee on Wednesday approved expanding the WCWS to a nine-day event, beginning with the 2022 championship. The change eliminates doubleheaders for teams who lose on the first day of the […]
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The United Soccer League has hired Will Kuhns as its senior vice president of communications and public relations, charging him with building and maintaining relationships with national, local and international media as well as creating and executing communications initiatives to promote the USL and its member clubs. As a member of USL’s executive team, Kuhns […]
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The Special Olympics Unified Cup 2022 presented by Toyota will be hosted by Detroit with nearly 600 athletes from up to 31 nations to competing starting July 31. The Special Olympics Unified Cup Detroit 2022 will be the second-ever tournament in this single-sport series, which challenges negative attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities and demonstrates […]
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