OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. The MarylandDC Amateur Softball Association (ASA) is sponsoring the 2009 Ken Eriksen Coaching School from Nov. 20-22 in Kent Island, Md. The organization is also sponsoring a five-hour girls hitting clinic with USA Softball Womens National Team Assistant Coach and South Florida University Head Coach Eriksen on Nov. 21 and three-hour girls pitching clinic with Olympic Champion Cat Osterman on Nov. 22.
The coaches clinic ($150) is limited to 175 participants while both player clinics are limited to 50 participants. Both the hitting clinic and the pitching clinic are $100 each, which includes a T-shirt. To sign up for either the coaches or players clinics, please click here.
The coaching school features Eriksen, North Carolina State Head Coach Lisa Navas and Kennesaw State University Head Coach Scott Whitlock instructing on everything from practice organization to short game offense and defense. Osterman, who now coaches at DePaul University, will also instruct two sessions, Pitching I Basics and Drills and Pitching II Spins, and participate in the recruiting seminar.
Complete information on the Maryland-DC ASA Softball Coaching School and clinics are available here. For more information, visit the Maryland-DC ASA Web site or contact Jack Hutcherson at jocommish@mddcasa.org.
The Maryland-DC Coaching School is separate from the 2009 USA Softball National Coaching School presented by Liberty Mutual, Nov. 20-22, 2009 at the Robert Livermore Community Center in Livermore, Calif. The National Coaching School features USA Softball Women's National Team Coach Mike Candrea, 2009 Head Coach Jay Miller and Eriksen.
To register for the National Coaching School, download the application here. Additional information on the school is available on the USA Softball National Coaching School Web site.
About ASA
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation's largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 210,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com.
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