Coaches Clinic Jan. 5th and Players Clinic Jan. 7th

Hi softball friends ,

We would like to invite you to our 1ST ANNUAL ELITE SOFTBALL CLINIC with Nikki Beal and Guests - Hosted by the Vaughan Vikings and Powered by MIZUNO and 2XU.

Attending this clinic are the following Elite Coaches:
Nicole (Abel) Tines - Assistant Coach - Wayne State University
Jaime Wohlbach - Head Coach - East Stroudsburg University
Nikki Beal - Former National Team Athlete and National Pro Fastpitch Player
Duaine Bowles - Humber College Head Coach
Krisjon Vargas - Canada Basketball - Athletic Trainer - Coaches Clinic ONLY

Location: Vaughan Sports Centre (formerly Cine Space Studios 11040 Hwy 27, Kleinburg (Vaughan ) (Long Driveway West of Hwy 27) )

When: Jan. 5th Coaches Clinic - Jan. 7th Players Clinic

Details:

Friday Jan 5th - CHALK TALK Coaches Clinic - $30 Per Coach - PD Point Eligible for Coaches Seminar

5:30pm - Register - Food and drinks provided

6pm - Clinic Starts - Each coach offers one question for 8pm Open Discussion - drawn from a Box.

6pm - 7:30 - Various Chalk Talk Topics - Mental Prep for Pitchers and Hitters, Types of Pitches to throw in certain situations, Hitting Faults and Fixes and More.

7:30pm - 8pm - The Importance of Strength Training and Active Recovery - Krisjon Vargas - Canada Basketball

8pm - 9pm - Open Discussion - Q&A 


Sunday Jan 7th - ELITE PLAYERS Clinic - 40 Players ONLY PER SESSIONS - 1/6 Coach to Player Ratio - 10 Pitchers/10 Catchers/20 Positional Players

Schedule and Costs as follows:

SESSION #1 MITE AND SQUIRT

8am - 9am - Pitchers and Catchers only - COST $100 which includes the Hitting and Fielding portion.

9am - 11:30am - Positional Players - Hitting and Fielding - COST $70

SESSION #2 NOVICE AND BANTAM

12:15pm - 1:15pm - Pitchers and Catchers only - COST $100 which includes Hitting and Fielding

1:15pm 4pm - Positional Players - Hitting and Fielding - COST $70

The Players Clinic is a FIRST COME FIRST SERVE basis with payment necessary ASAP to secure the SPOT.

Please send me a note at swildman@sympatico.ca, if you are interested in attending - I will confirm with an email follow up and an E-Transfer payment to me directly can be made to secure within 24 hours of interest or your spot will be forfeited.
You can also contact me at 416 803 1739 or contact Kevin Graham at 416 414 9911 / kevingraham@sympatico.ca or Nikki Beal at 416 565 2014 / NikkiBeal@rogers.com

INFO ON GUEST COACHES

Nicole (Abel) Tines - Assistant Coach - Wayne State University - seventh season as an assistant coach and fourth as a full-time assistant coach after being named to that position in October 2014. She earned her master's degree in Sports Administration in 2014.
In her last three years, the Warriors have compiled a 178-58-1 overall mark (.753 winning percentage) including a 74-19-1 GLIAC record. WSU has won two GLIAC regular-season titles, three conference tournament crowns and advanced to the NCAA Tournament all four seasons including a trip to the College World Series in 2014. In addition, she helped mentor the 2016 NFCA (National Fastpitch Coaches Association) National Player of the Year (Lyndsay Butler).
Playing Career: Was a four-year player (2007-10) for the Warriors compiling a 29-21 record in the circle with four saves, while recording 300 strikeouts and a 2.54 earned-run average ... also had five RBI in limited batting action with a .300 on-base percentage ... graduated in May 2012 with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology.
Career Notes: Finished career tied-for-fifth in saves (4), eighth in strikeouts (300), 10th in shutouts (9), 11th in appearances (88) and 14th in winning percentage (.580).

Jaime Wohlbach - Head Coach - East Stroudsburg University - Jaime Wohlbach enters her second season as head softball coach.
In the summer of 2016, she was assistant coach for Peru's national team at the Women's Softball World Championship, held in Surrey, British Columbia.
Wohlbach, formerly head coach at the University of Delaware for five years, arrived at ESU with eight years of collegiate head coaching experience, all at the Division I level. She is a 2000 graduate of Kutztown University, earning All-PSAC East honors as a catcher as a junior and senior and All-Region recognition in 2000. She was a three-time team captain and Kutztown’s team MVP in 1999 and competed and coached professionally, including the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. Wohlbach was head coach at Delaware from 2011 through 2015, making three Colonial Athletic Association playoff appearances with a career record of 115-137-1. The Blue Hens won 35 games in 2013, second-most in program history, and made three straight postseason trips (2011-13) for the first time since 2002-04.
Since 2002, she has run a national and international softball clinic, J9 Fastpitch Performance. The camps and clinics have included instruction in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Belgium and Australia. Professionally, she signed with the Tampa Bay FireStix in the former Women’s Professional Softball League for the 2001 season. She was selected in the fourth round of the December 2003 draft in the National Pro Fastpitch League by the California Sunbirds in Sacramento. She played for the independent league Nebraska Comets and the NPF’s Philadelphia Force in 2006.
In 2004, she played for the Great Britain National Team in Athens, Greece as a test run for the 2004 Athens Olympics. From 2001-04, she coached an 18-under USA All-Star team in Australia following the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She also played professionally in the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Switzerland, and coached a youth all-star team in Italy.