Miami County Blaze Fastpitch Softball

This year were glad to field an 18U team that will be playing in college exposure events, scrimages and double headers with colleges and in college tournaments. They will be traveling in Ohio and surrounding states. Approximately 7 weekends starting after Labor Day.  

 

 

 

 

  2021 FALL SCHEDULE 

For Directions:

Go to the Directions Tab on the left pane.

This is a plug for the colleges, if were not practicing or playing a couple of college tournaments this fall is:

 

Ohio Charity Collegiate Classic usually 1st weekend in Oct @ Beekman Park and Buckeye Field : more to come.

 

College Game Day Sept 11&12th @ Grand Park Indianapolis

https://play.bullpentournaments.com

 

	Dates	Tournament	Times	Xtra Info	Location
Sept	12th	Edison Shootout - 3Games	10:20 F2  2:20 Main    5pm F1		5300 Houston High School Rd.  Houston, OH 45333
	18th	Georgetown College Fall   Tournament	9:30  11:00  2PM	Coach will talk with group  after games.	Basic Address, you'll need to follow  signs to reach the softball field east  of campus towards Toyota Stadium  400 East College Street  Georgetown, KY 40324
	19th
	25th	Wilmington College Exposure	12 & 2pm	Coach will talk with group  after games	525 Marlena Drive  Wilmington, OH
	26th
Oct	2nd
	3rd
	9th	Huntington University Exposure		Coaches will talk and tour  of School.	2303 College Avenue  Huntington, IN 46750
	23/24th	Americas Premier Fall Showcase
Nov

2021 Miami County Blaze Fall College Exposure Team Rosters

16U Coach - Curt Schaefer 937-875-0492 miamicountyblaze@aol.com 

 

 

Jersey #	First Name	Last Name	High School	Grad Yr	School Mascott	Positions	Recruitment Site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dont Wait until your senior year to start the process.

Dont Expect the college coach to seek you out.

Stay on top of your grades and make the best use of your off-season time.

 

Cathi Aradi's website
www.fastpitchrecruiting.com

Office of Post Secondary Education
(US Department of Education Resource site for information on colleges and universities)
www.ed.gov/about/landing.jhtml?src=ln

FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
www.fafsa.ed.gov

ACT testing home page
www.act.org

NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse
FAQ's and instructions for completion of initial eligibility requirements
https://web1.ncaa.org/eligibilitycenter/common/

NFCA
National Fastpitch Coaches Assocation: TONS of information in regards to instructional aids and softball sources. This site also contains links to every D1, DII, DIII and NAIA softball program in the nation (as well as many junior colleges).
www.nfca.org

College Confidential-Provides an abundance of information on admissions, financial aid, scholarships, etc.
www.collegeconfidential.com

This was put here so you can tell when a coach can contact you! You still can send emails, information to the coach just know they cannot respond during certain times of the year.

NCAA Div I - https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/compliance/recruiting/calendar/2021-22/2021-22D1REC_OtherSports_RecruitingGuide.pdf

NCAA Div II -  https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/compliance/recruiting/calendar/2021-22/2021-22D2REC_RecruitingGuide.pdf

NCAA Div III - https://www.ncaa.org/student-athletes/future/recruiting

NAIA - https://www.naia.org/legislative/recruitment

NJCAA - https://www.njcaa.org/eligibility/faq 

During high school regional and state championship competition that does not occur during a dead period - Evaluation Period

What is a contact?

A contact occurs any time a college coach says more than hello during a face-to-face contact with a college-bound student-athlete or his or her parents off the college’s campus.

What is a contact period?

During a contact period a college coach may have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, watch student-athletes compete and visit their high schools, and write or telephone student-athletes or their parents.

What is a dead period?

During a dead period a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools. Coaches may write and telephone student-athletes or their parents during a dead period.

What is a quiet period?

A quiet period is that period of time when it is permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on the member institution's campus. No in-person, off- campus recruiting contacts or evaluations may be made during the quiet period.

What is an evaluation period?

During an evaluation period a college coach may watch college-bound student-athletes compete, visit their high schools, and write or telephone student-athletes or their parents. However, a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents off the college’s campus during an evaluation period.

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Keep this to one page, its only intention is to intrest the coaches seeing it. You can manipulate as you see fit so it reflects you the player.

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With technology uploading videos is becoming much easier with websites such as U tube, beRecruited.com, sending links to college coaches for these sites will allow coaches to acces your information instantly.

Remember to be hitting the college skill camps for schools that your intrested in attending. These will put you in direct contact with the coach, as always e-mail the coach to let them know your intrested in the school and their softball program. They can set up tours and a talk with the team.

A couple good individual exposure events to check into:

Kent State Camp (www.kentstatesoftballcamps.com) Registration starts end of July and fills quickly, past three years have been sold out.

Queen of Diamonds North & South (www.theqsport.com) This is a application process to get in, you will need to fill out the required documentation to be considered. The North's tournament is in January and the South's played in August.

The NFCA college exposure event, its usually done on thursday end of July before a local tournament. These do have cut off dates so check early in May to register. Go to www.nfca.org/camps for more information.

Blaze - Most recent college signings

 

2018 Hannah Oaks - Miami Hamilton

2018  Hallie Snyder - Edison State CC

2018  Masey Gregg - Sinclair CC

2018  Sarah Hubbard - Washington and Jefferson College

 

2017 Lauryn Rutan - Ohio Christian

2017 Kaitlyn Zell - Mount St. Joseph

 

 

2016 Whitney Fiedler - Ohio Christian

2016 Emily Ritchie - Mount Vernon Naz

2016 Elizabeth Ritchie - Mount Vernon Naz

2016 Mallory Roberts - Wilmington

 

2015 Morgan Arborgast - Cedarville University

2015 Kris Bigelow - Capital University

2015 Rachel Wehrman - Defiance College

2015 Allison Pierce - Wilmington College

2015 Rachel Fickert - Mount St. Joseph

2015 Stephanie Kraska - Muskingum

2015 Olivia Edgell - Walsh University

2015 Brittany Harting - Muskingum

2015 Amanda Rose - Sinclair CC

2015 Allison Harris - Mount Vernon Naz

2015 Megan Kitchen - Mount Vernon Naz

2015 Mackenzie Aey - Rio Grande

2015 Victoria Adams - Sinclair CC

2015 Kristen Bachman - Sinclair CC