Georgia Fire Fastpitch Softball: Welcome

Please bookmark our new Organizational Website, www.georgiafirefastpitch.com as this site will be off line shortly. 

The "Georgia Fire" is a well established and nationally recognized Girl’s Fastpitch program based in the greater Atlanta area, Georgia.  The Georgia Fire is the host of the Dynamite Classic Exposure Tournament held in Columbia, South Carolina, one of the largest annual College Exposure and recruiting events in the Southeast of the United States.  

Each year the Georgia Fire program strives to field competitive teams at the 8U, 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U, 18U and 18 Gold levels for play in and pursuit of ASA National Championships. The Georgia Fire has produced some of the most talented and premier players to move on to play college softball. Through its nine year history, the Georgia Fire Program has developed numerous players that play or have played for NAIA Colleges, NCAA DI, DII, and DIII Colleges and has had former players in the NCAA WCWS, Women’s Softball Pro League and Team USA.

Every Player on a Georgia Fire team has a strong desire to improve their softball skills and works to establish themselves as a player ready for the college level. The Georgia Fire's positive environment and national recognition helps create an opportunity for players to reach their goals. 

2011/2012 Georgia Fire Tryout Information:

 2011/2012 Georgia Fire Teams

The mission of the Georgia Fire is to promote a superior athletic organization for girls fastpitch softball.  The organization will strive to help players develop athletically, academically, and socially, by providing not only athletic opportunities, but re-instilling educational, leadership, and life lessons.  While we strive to develop our players into collegiate level athletes, we also want them to become great students and citizens.

 To excel as a first-class organization, the Georgia Fire is firmly committed to attracting the best coaches and athletes into the program.  Our coaches are expected to be commited to their players and the program, continue to develop their own skills through annual coaches clinics, and provide the highest level of coaching in a professional, positive and motivational manner to the girls in the Georgia Fire.

One measure of the success of the Georgia Fire organization is that since its' inception in 2001, over 70 Georgia Fire players have obtained some level of athletic or academic scholarship to continue their education at the collegiate level.  For a complete list of these players please see the Georgia Fire Alumni section.

For more information, questions relating to the Georgia Fire program,  or if you have a top notch team with a strong coaching staff and would like to talk about joining the Georgia Fire, please contact Mark Whittle at mwhittle@comcast.net, or Kevin Kayler at kkayler@bellsouth.net,, or either of us at georgia.fire@yahoo.com.  

Jessie James Memorial Scholarship 

One example of the Georgia Fire being more than just "high level softball" is the Jessie James Scholarship program which was created in November, 2006, in honor of a former Georgia Fire player who passed away.  This scholarship is awarded annually to a player from the Georgia Fire based on the requirements and guidelines of the scholarship.  The scholarship award winners to date are:

2007 - Amanda Bills, Brenau University

2008 - Hannah Bradley, Furman University

2009 - Lauren Dykes, North Georgia College and State  

2010 - Megan Uhrman, Savannah State University

2010 - Chelsea Whittle, Augusta State University

2011 - Rachel Orlandella - University of Georgia

2011 - Natalie Lampert - Georgia College and State

Partnerships with local softball associations

The Georgia Fire is proud to be a partner with Sandy Plains Softball Association, Alpharetta North Park Association, and Kenworth Park to help better promote the sport of fastpitch softball, and utilize and leverage our combined experience to better recruit, train, and develop fastpitch players, from as young as 10 years old, all the way through the 18 and under class of play.

Mizuno Partnership

The Georgia Fire is extremely proud and appreciative to have Mizuno as a premier partner and sponsor of our program since 2005.  Mizuno is a world-wide leader in sports apparel and equipment and the Georgia Fire is proud to utilize its great products and apparel when we take the field.