2022-23 Season

Please help us to plan by completing the informational form below.

Hi Royals parents!

As newly-minted USSSA State Directors, Coach Dave and Coach Richie are still working to improve softball in Northern Colorado and to continue improving the softball experiences in our areas. We are learning a lot from national USSSA and State directors, fellow members of the NFCA (National Coaches Fastpitch Association), as well as from other coaches  and umpires around the country and of course around Northern Colorado.

We have a pretty strong awareness of ongoing needs and a stronger vision for how to solve many of the problems we’ve documented. As many of you are aware, we don’t rest on yesterday, we are continually working to improve for today and tomorrow.

We’re not perfect, we’re not trying to be. We are working to be excellent, one year at a time. Support and time is what these solutions need to build and to trust the process.

As we head into our fourth year next year, we want to continue to build our competitive program while continuing a lot of the traditions that have been unique to the Royals. Your quick feedback will help us to do that.

  • Our rapid player development and assessments with tools like Blast® and Rapsodo® tools and national support (few travel teams have),
  • To develop our coaches with training and policies that create clear boundaries,
  • To close the gap of competitive levels within our teams so that A-level players have A-level experiences, as well as for B and C levels,
  • To challenge players in personal growth areas as: fitness and conditioning, softball skills, game IQ, discipline, toughness, respect, acceptance, communication, and team-building.
  • Build a stronger Fall (September-November) league and a new Spring league (March-April) to foster more game-ready reps,
  • Hit the Summer USSSA (or mixed with RFML/USA) tournament schedule with enough league game reps to have great competitive moments in fewer tournaments,
  • Continue to travel once to Hays, Kansas where we’ve won multiple trophies in 3 age groups, and in Florida, where we see national talent, get to mingle with professional athletes, and play on the best fields in the country.
  • Weather and baseball-centric indoor training centers—we are raising funds for a one-of-a-kind, softball-only training center to support off-season training, and consistent training through bad weather,
  • Municipal fields have become stingier nationally with renting out fields and preferring instead to rent to recreational programs due to vandalism and parent/player/coach behavioral issues and threats to liability, when they do rent, it’s costly, and Colorado is one of the costliest states to rent fields for tournaments,
  • Bucking the current USSSA tournament format which is boring, expensive, and as unique as McDonalds®,
  • Poaching continues to plague so many Northern Colorado teams where “managers” are seeking to pull developing players from growing teams rather than to grow and coach their own talent. Once a team has talented pitchers developed, they then need to develop other infielders/catchers as well outfielders, but that is hard to do when you develop then lose a pitcher and no balls are hit to those new awesome fielders. It’s important to remember that 20% of the teams win 80% of the games and 80% of the teams stay the same because they keep swapping average players.

We hope to continue to serve you and your family and to build on some amazing moments this season!

Thank you in advance for giving us some guidance on your personal goals for softball.