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Pittsburgh Spirit:Where NATIONAL Champions Are Made.
Click here to see three Spirit teams who earned NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP titles or look at the History section of this website.
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ABOUT SPIRITThe Pittsburgh Spirit Fastpitch Softball Organization is Western Pennsylvania's leader in quality fastpitch travel teams. The organization develops well-rounded, team-oriented players who excel at the highest levels of competition. The Spirit organization's driving philosophy is to maximize the development of the player's skills (both individual and team) by providing a world class practice/drill environment with year round indoor and outdoor dedicated practice facilities. We combine this with promoting a positive attitude in all situations--in victory and defeat--both on and off the field. We are humble in our victories and accept our losses with dignity--we teach that a positive attitude is the best approach for everything in life.
Our coaches attend annual national coaching programs where they learn from the leading Division I college coaches and olympians about the latest drill/practice routines and game strategy.
Our dedicated indoor winter practice facilities include: (a) areas for pitching and fielding practice, and eight batting stations with two "jugs" pitching machines during the week; and (b) an indoor sports dome facility on Sunday mornings providing two full size practice fields that allows us to run scrimmages and full field practices, with additional separate practice drill areas. During the spring and summer months we have a dedicated lighted outdoor field.
The Spirit teams win approximately 80% or more of their games and seven of our eight 2007 teams qualified for National Championship Tournaments for ASA, PONY and NSA. For information on our three National Championship teams please see the "History" page by clicking on the left side of this page.
Our teams attend tournaments in Pennsylvania (State Championships), Ohio (Sluggerfest), Michigan (Compuware) and New York (Aunt Rosie's). We also plan to qualify and send our teams to National Championship tournaments at the end of each season in North Carolina and Virginia.
In 2008, we are fielding a total of fifteen teams (one 10U, four 12U, five 14U, three 16U, one 18U and one 23U) as set forth below.
10/12 and under
14 and under
16 and under
18 and under
23 and under
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2009 Pittsburgh Spirit
TRYOUTS
The tryout dates for our 2009 teams will be August 5, 9, 10, 16, 17 and 18 thru 21. Refer to our separate "Tryout" page at left for more details.
For more information call Rich Leviere at 412-761-6413 or others listed on our tryout page. |
Home of National Championship Teams: 1998(14U), 2000(14U) and 2001(12U).
2009 Tryouts - August 5 (Tuesday), August 9&10 and August 16&17 (Sat & Sun), August 18, 19, 20 and 21 (Mon to Thur). Refer to the Tryout page at left of this screen for more details.
PITTSBURGH SPIRIT TOURNAMENT NSA FIRECRACKER QUALIFIER JULY "4TH" 2008--We will again be hosting our traditional July 4th weekend firecracker tournament in 2008. The dates are June 27, 28 and 29 (due to field scheduling conflcits). There will be a 10U age class. It will be a NSA National Qualifier. Go to www.nsawpa.com and click on "tournaments" and click on Firecracker Classic.
2008 COLLEGE SHOWCASE--We held our 2008 College Coaches Showcase on Friday October 10 2008 at the Zelienople Park fields in Zelienoplpe Pa. Additional information is posted in the "College Showcase" section of this website. Statistical information by position is available under the Handouts section of our website. This is in conjunction with the NSA College Showcase Tournament on October 11 & 12 - see www.nsawpa.com for tournament information. Entry and other forms are posted in the "Handouts" section of this website. We wil also be hosting a 2009 Showcase - check back later for details.
Spirit's 2008 Season
Our teams generally place 1st, 2nd or 3rd at 80% of the tournaments. Some of our successes in 2008 are: Spirit 12U Westmoreland: 1st at Vipers, 1st at Penn Trafford and 2nd at NSA Indiana; Spirit 16U Black: 3rd at Steel City Slam and 2nd at Firecracker; Spirit 12Gold: 1st at Hornets, Firecracker, Summer Rage and Rumble on the River. Seven of our eight teams qualified for National championship tournaments in 2007. We also had successful results at the NSA Eastern Nationals and at the PONY U.S. Nationals in 2007. Our 16U Gold team placed 5th out of 75 teams at the NSA Nationals and had the second best overall win/loss results. Our 16U Black won their bracket at the PONY Nationals and made it into the Championship round and into the top 16 teams out of 88 entered teams. Congratulations to all of our teams. |
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
Former pitching great Satchel Paige
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Pittsburgh Spirit:
Home of Champions
2001 PONY National Champions 12U
2000 PONY National Champions 14U
2000 ASA State Champions 14U
1998 NSA National Champions 14U |
| If you have questions about Pittsburgh Spirit or news for this website, please CONTACT US! Or, e-mail the president of the Pittsburgh Spirit, Rich LeViere. DON'T FORGET TO SIGN OUR GUEST BOOK! |
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