U14 Tournament Sold Out! Thank you for the overwelming interest U14 coaches/managers...

The women's National Team roster was communicated this past week. You can find the article here.

UTM is proud to be a sponsor of the Waterloo Warriors Fastball Tournament

Our club teams are now in the gymnasiums and indoor facilities getting ready for the 2019 season. This coming spring/summer UTM will field four clubs, 3 - U19 teams (Durham, Morriston, Brantford) and 1 - U16 team (Kitchener-Waterloo). All teams will compete at the PWSA level. Our teams are excited to get back to softball training, and the training will ramp up over the next couple of weeks following the completion of 1st term exams. Each of our teams will be posting content to the Revolution news feed, and to their own individual team pages leading up to, and during the season. Thank you to all the athletes, coaches and parents that comprise the UTM 2019 family!

8 Game Guarantee event Canada Day weekend 2019

A perspective on how pitching less, can be more valuable for pitchers (published by Flo Softball)

Here is a link to the article discussing the new Softball Canada Developmental Matrix...

Here is a great article that talks about the many ways in which being involved in sports, is good for your mental health. The article was published on healthline.com

Here is an article concerning some updates from the ongoing WBSC meetings in Italy. Interesting to note the reference to the end of U19... wonder if that means PWSA will revert back to a 2-year Midget division in 2020... artcile is from the wbsc site

Here is a link to an article on the new Ace pitcher for the Michigan Wolverines. The article and its content come from Flo Softball.com

Summer of 2019, the Waterloo Warriors Softball Club will be hosting a tournament to help off-set some of the costs of playing in the Ontario University loop. The team will be hosting Bantam, Midget and Intermediate Divisions June 7 – 9 in New Dundee/Wilmot Township. The event will feature a 6-game guarantee for the Bantam & Midget categories and a 5-game guarantee for the Intermediate division. Registration is open, the Waterloo Warriors hope to raise enough money at this event to reduce the fees required to participate in their 2019 season.

Holly McKenzie, Matt Hargest and McKenna Kelly are getting the chance to live out their dreams of being student athletes thanks to Next Level U Sports a Kitchener sports school owned by Ryan Neceski, which specializes in recruiting top-level athletes and helping them receive scholarship opportunities in Canada and the U.S. Please click the link to go to the article that appeared in the KW Record.

Softball Canada and the National Pro Fastpitch have reached a deal to add a new franchise into the league for the 2019 season. The link here will take you to the article as published on flosoftball.com

The linked article is from FloSoftball.com Dr. Kaila Holtz is a Canadian Olympian turned NCAA Pitching Coach turned Sports Medicine Physician. She is currently in her last year of medical residency (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) at the University of British Columbia. Her clinical interests are in shoulder health with a particular focus on overuse throwing and pitching injuries. She recently published a paper in the Orthopedic Journal of Sports Medicine looking at arm health in youth softball pitchers. Follow her on Twitter @kailaholtz

The Ontario Intercollegiate Women’s Fastpitch Association (OIWFA) makes history this weekend at the 2018 Championship hosted by the University of Ottawa Gee Gees. Hosted at the Carp Fairgrounds, the top eight university teams will convene in a double elimination tournament to be crowned Ontario Champions.

The Kentucky Wildcats are becoming a softball powerhouse in the SEC. Here is an article on how that's all come about from Flo Softball. University of Kentucky softball coach Rachel Lawson's love affair with softball began by attending rodeos with her family as a kid. The adult softball field was in shouting distance from the rodeo ring, so when it wasn’t her turn, she’d go out and watch the games. 

The Softball Skills Camp is being launched this fall/winter to provide families with local options for improving their softball skills & performance on the field. The camp will deliver training in areas of demand locally in the Eastern Ontario Region. The goal of the Softball Skills Camp is to raise the level of play in Eastern Ontario by providing quality instruction to players of all ages and skill levels

his weekend marks a big one for some fall-ball action as we have many newly minted Ontario teams either playing some exhibition games or heading across the border some various US events taking place this weekend. The weather might be a bit iffy Friday night, but after that all should be good for weekend play.

Here is a timely article regarding the mental health benefits of sport, taken from Healthline.com

What are the player’s strengths and weaknesses and why are these strengths and weaknesses signals of a successful or unsuccessful player? (from Flo Softball.com)