Sparks, MD – Maryland-based firm API Sports Management & Marketing, parent company of All-ProFastpitch, LLC, has partnered with Atlanta-based Dynasty Media and Entertainment, LLC, to create All-ProDynasty Fastpitch, LLC, an entity that has established two women’s professional softball teams that willtour the United States in 2010.

The U.S. Professional All-Stars and the Dynasty 6 teams will begin touring the country in June, participating in weekend fastpitch festivals in locations such as Atlanta; Baltimore-Washington; New York; Worcester, MA; Norfolk, VA; and Oklahoma City. Dates and times of each event – along with addition allocations – will be announced shortly.

The goal of All-Pro Dynasty Fastpitch is to open doors for the millions of young girls playing the sport to interact with female professional role models, learn from athletes who have reached the sport’s highest level and see that they can pursue fastpitch into college and beyond. In turn, the hope is to expose the sport and its athletes to new demographics and markets around the country and help the hard-working pro-level fastpitch athletes be able to truly make a living doing what they love while at the same time giving back to the sport.

The U.S. Professional All-Stars is a team comprised of current and former U.S. National Team players, U.S.Futures Team players, former college All-Americans and national champions. That team will compete during the festival weekends against top women’s teams from around the country, international teams, teams of college all-stars and possibly in fall tournaments against college teams. Some players who have committed to play for the All-Stars include 2008 College Player of the Year Angela Tincher, U.S. National Team members Katie Cochran and Ashley Charters and U.S. Futures Team member Jenae’ Leles.

The Dynasty 6 is a six-person team of select women from the U.S. Professional All-Stars, including those named above, who will compete against any full team of male challengers in charity events during the festival weekends and throughout the year. This group, created in honor of the hugely successful King and His Court and Queen and Her Court/Maids teams that toured the country for years, will take on local firefighters, police, military personnel, celebrities, professional athletes from other sports, etc.

Players will be active and accessible in each community that will host events, making media appearances,promoting the event and the sport at local restaurants and events, speaking to school children and members of youth organizations and attending youth softball games and practices. Camps and clinics willbe held in each market leading up to and during the event, and the athletes will be available throughoutthe weekend for autographs, photos and question and answer opportunities.

In addition, on Friday in most locations youth fastpitch athletes ages 14 and up will be able to attend a “Workout with the Pros,” which will provide them with an opportunity to train alongside the All-Stars and see exactly what kind of commitment it takes to play at the highest level. This day will include position-specific training, sessions covering off-field training (strength and conditioning), question and answersessions and a player/coach/parent seminar covering the college recruiting process, what it takes to be seen by college coaches, what college coaches look for in players, the commitment necessary to play at the highest level, balancing softball with academic and social activities and the expectations placed on elite athletes.

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