Plant City, Florida (USA); 30th July 2009: Angela Ruggiero, considered one of the most prominent women’s ice hockey players in the world, has spoken publicly in favor of softball’s reinstatement to the Olympic Games. A three-time Olympic medalist who is aiming to also compete at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Ruggiero is also [...]

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The NFCA and adidas have released the 10 student-athletes who have been named the winners of the 2009 adidas Golden Shoe award. NFCA and adidas present the award annually to the top base stealer from NFCA member schools in each of the following divisions: NCAA (Divisions I, II and III), NAIA, NJCAA (Divisions I, II [...]

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – With two tournament championship titles on its resume, the USA Softball Women’s National team program will now send two teams out to compete with one heading to Sendai City, Japan for the Japan Cup and the other to Maracay, Venezuela, for the Pan American qualifier. The Pan American qualifierwill consist of [...]

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The 64-team field is complete for the 2009 ASA 18-Under GOLD National Championship scheduled to take place August 2-9 at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City, Okla. Pool play draws were completed on Monday by tournament officials as 16 pools of four teams each kick off the tournament [...]

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Texas Tech Athletic Director Gerald Myers announced Shanon Hays, who has guided the program at Lubbock Christian for the past three years, as new head coach for the Red Raider softball program. Hays will become the seventh head softball coach in the history of the program, and the fifth since the inception of the Big [...]

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Plant City, Florida (USA); 29th July 2009: Another facet of the BackSoftball blueprint is being highlighted as international networks have come onboard to carry telecasts of the medal games from the International Softball Federation’s XII Men’s World Championship that has just been played in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada). The announcement comes just one week after the [...]

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SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN — Two walks issued were all that separated pitcher Adam Folkard from a perfect game here in today’s 5-0 win over New Zealand. The fact that the lanky hurler not only no-hit three-time defending International Softball Federation men’s world champion New Zealand, but did so in the gold medal game of the twelfth [...]

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Don Porter – “Our record is exemplary at the highest level” Plant City, Florida (USA); 22nd July 2009: International Softball Federation President Don Porter is urging the International Olympic Committee to back softball’s campaign for Olympic reinstatement in 2016, reiterating the sport’s exemplary anti-doping record at the highest level. The tremendously successful Olympic softball competition [...]

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By Ted Cox / Daily Herald Two very different sports worlds collide next week when the women’s National Pro Fastpitch Bandits travel to Alexian Field in Schaumburg to take on the Northern League Flyers. It pits softball against baseball and, not to put too fine a point on it, a major-league team against a minor-league [...]

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ISF President – “There has been a special atmosphere here, just as in Beijing” Kaohsiung (Taiwan); 20th July 2009: International Softball Federation President Don Porter has visited his third softball competition in a week after arriving in Taiwan to support the softball competition at the World Games and further promote the BackSoftball campaign for Olympic [...]

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