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ASA National Information
The Amateur Softball Association (ASA), a volunteer driven, not-for-profit organization based in Oklahoma City, OK, was founded in 1933 and has evolved into the strongest softball organization in the country. The growth and development of the association led the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to name the ASA the National Governing Body of Softball, pursuant to the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
When the ASA entered the softball picture in 1933, the sport was in a state of confusion with no unified set of playing rules and no national governing body to provide guidance and stability. The ASA changed all that by adopting softball's first universally accepted rules of play and by organizing consistent and fair competition across the nation.
From this beginning, the ASA has become one of the nation's largest and fastest growing sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 93 state and metro associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 250,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than four million.
ASA NorCal Information
Strike Zone is a competitive ASA fastpitch softball organization located in Milpitas Ca., which is located on the eastern edge of the Silicon Valley in Northern California. This location serves as a hub to players for the south bay, west bay, east bay and the tri-city areas. Strike Zone the organization is under the direction of Don Ford.
ASA Pacific Coast Region 14
A Metro area includes a major city with a population of 450,000 or more and the county in which it is located and in some cases the surrounding counties. A state association is the rest of the independent cities and area within that state. The state of California has Two state associations (North & South) due to its size. The State of California has Six Metro Associations and they are listed below. The state associations of Nevada and Hawaii make up the rest of Region 14.
Central California Metro: City of Fresno and the Counties of Kern, Kings, Madera, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Inyo, Mono and Antelope Valley.
Greater San Joaquin Metro: City of Stockton and the Counties of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Alpine and Mariposa.
Oakland Metro: City of Oakland, all of Alameda County and Contra Costa County.
Sacramento Metro: City and County of Sacramento, all of El Dorado and Placer counties and the eastern portion of Yolo County that includes the cities of Davis and Woodland.
San Francisco Metro: City and County of San Francisco.
Greater Sacramento Softball Association
The Greater Sacramento Softball Association is part of The Amateur Softball Association.
Spy Softball
SPY provides reports on major ASA, PONY and other 18-U girls fastpitch softball tournaments, including national championships, and exposure tournaments like the Boulder Independence Day tournament, the Plantation, Pennsbury and Rock Hill exposure tournaments, the annual Batbuster and Firecracker tournaments, Colorado Fireworks at Aurora,etc. SPY also reports on major college tournaments, including the Women's College World Series, the NFCA leadoff, Fiesta and KIA classics, other college tournaments and season competition,
Cool Southern California Site
2004 12U National Tournament
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