TSCA

http://tbca.org/index.php?page=hsmembership Here is a link to the TBCA (Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association) and as you can see for a school-wide membership we are $60 a year cheaper because we are still trying to build a class organization to benefit the young ladies and coaches who play and coach the game in Tennessee. And at the end of the year after the Kentucky/Tennessee All Star game the TSCA will again be back at less than $100 in the banking account and this is to keep web site going, all other proceeds go back to the girls in scholarships and awards, so if it's a scam to give softball girls a little recognition I guess we missed something.

All of the players are nominated by their coaches and they are to only turn in senior athletes from their team. There is always a possibility that a high school coach may have nominated someone that does not meet that standard if so we would like to know about it. That being said, if we make an error and have someone on our list who is not a senior please contact one of our Executive Directors at phillip.Burkhart@cmcss.net or cobracoach@yahoo.com. We have been informed that one of our players is in fact not a senior and we are working to try to fix that problem.

We have gotten our last commitment from Coach Johnnie Sanfratello from Tipton-Rosmark as our other coach for the KY/TN All Stars. All of these coaches are State Champions in their division and we are excited that they will be able to coach these young ladies!

There are not really any inconsistencies when you know the make up of each of the different teams. All State players can be from any grade level and are chosen by classification, A, AA, AAA, and DII from all across the state. Many of the girls who make all state may not be seniors. The All Star Teams are chosen from only the senior class since the All Star Games are only allowed to be played in Tennessee according to the TSSAA after they have graduated high school. Also when choosing the All Star Teams you have to select players by their positions. You can not have a team of 12 pitchers, etc. These young ladies are nominated by their coaches and voted on by coaches. The players chosen have to be able to attend and play in the All Star games both the Regional and the Kentucky/Tennessee games. Some players may be out of town, injured or chose not to play for various reasons. The TSCA strives to chose the Best of the Best. If anyone has ever been to one of the Regional or Ky/Tn All Star games you would see that these young ladies represent Tennessee very well. Please keep in mind that there is no perfect way to pick or chose a limited number of players when you have the whole state to chose from. The TSCA tries to do things to benefit the players with All Star Games, Scholarships, All Academic awards, All State awards, etc. The ladies chosen for each of these awards will benefit from the recognition and being honored.

The Tennessee Softball Coaches Association has announced it's Regional All Star Teams and Coaches today. These All Star Players will play in the Regional All Star Games with West Tennessee All Stars, Middle Tennessee All Stars and East Tennessee All Stars playing a 3 game series on June 16th at Lipscomb University. From these 3 teams, one team of 15 players will be selected to play in the annual Kentucky/Tennessee All Star Game which will be played this year at Western Kentucky State University at the end of June. Go to the website link below to view this year's All Star Teams. http://www.tnsca.com/2014-Regional-All-Stars.html

The TSCA All Star Teams will be announced hopefully tomorrow or by the latest Friday Night. We are trying to contact all the young ladies and their coaches first to make sure they will be able to attend. Thank you for all the interest in this by all our member schools, we want to make sure each team is well represented.

The TSCA All State Teams are on the TSCA Website now. You may go to the link below to view each classification's All State Team. http://www.tnsca.com/2014-TSCA-All-State-Teams.html

These players will be picked from our All Star Game on June 16th, Coaches will be Johnathan Bush Gordonsville High School (A), Steve Wilder Dyersburg High School (AA) all which are members of the TSCA and State Champions in their division. We are waiting on replies from the other State Champions who were also members of the TSCA. Thursday, June 26, 2014 Games and Pictures at Western Kentucky University Softball Field 9:00 am Practice at Local High School in Bowling Green 11:00 am - Pictures 12:00 pm Game 1 2:00 pm Game 2 4:00 pm Game 3 (if necessary – 5 innings) Times are Central Standard Time

All Star Program for June 16th 2:30 East and Middle Tennessee players will sign in, meet teammates, and have pictures made 4:00 East All Stars vs. Middle All Stars 4:00 West players will sign in, meet teammates, have have pictures made 5:30 East All-Stars vs. West All Stars 7:00 Introduction of All-Stars, All-State, Miss Softball, Hall of Fame Inductee, and all other awards 7:30 West All-Stars vs. Middle All Stars 9:00 Introduction of Tennessee All Stars Team

The Tennessee Softball Coaches Association is set to announce this year's All State and All Star Teams in the next couple of days. The TSCA has well over 125 member schools and universities this year in it's Statewide organization and the players that will be released are from teams whose coaches are members of the TSCA. Every Coach in the state is free to join the organization and the cost is very minimal for the whole coaching staff for the school, less than paying one umpire for one game. The coaches from these schools nominated their young ladies back before the district tournaments started and the stats used to elect these ladies were given to committees of coaches before the Region and State tournaments took place. We always hold off and announce these awards after the State Tournament because of the publicity and not wanting hard feeling or negativity to come up during the tournament. We have groups of coaches in each division and each classification choose these young ladies from the stats prepared by their coaches and sent in to the TSCA website. We appreciate that each school and community is rooting for the young ladies from their area to be chosen, but only a certain number can make these teams. All Stars have to be Seniors and are chosen by their position and area of the state and All State can be from any grade and are chosen by their Classification A. AA. AAA and DII.. We as directors of the TSCA would like the public to know this is not an easy task and some of the players you feel are deserving (and very well may be), may not make the teams because of the great number of athletes nominated each year. This year we had over 150 athletes nominated in each group and our committees have tried to chose the best of the best. That being said we would hope that all of the fans who love this sport will try and be positive for the sake of the young ladies who make these teams and not belittle the young ladies who have achieved these awards. Thank you, Tennessee Softball Coaches Association Directors

The Tennessee Softball Coaches Association would like to announce this years' Hall of Fame class. Joining Gary Davis from Lipscomb Academy the 2013 Hall of Fame recipient will be: 2014 TSCA Hall of Fame Class Clifford Kirk - Hixson High School, Soddy Daisy High School, Sale Creek Record - 935 - 213 10 State Titles - 2 at Hixson 8 at Soddy Daisy State Coach of the Year 9 times Brian Dunn - Riverside High School, Union University and University School of Jackson Record - 711- 189 2 State Titles at USJ 3 NCCAA National Titles at Union University Congratulations to Coach Kirk and Coach Dunn Tennessee Softball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Inductees 2013 Gary Davis Lipscomb Academy Middle Tennessee 2014 Clifford Kirk Hixson, Soddy Daisy, Sale Creek East Tennessee 2014 Brian Dunn Riverside, Union, and USJ West Tennessee

The Tennessee Softball Coaches Association released the names of the Miss Softball Nominees from each Region and Classification today. Congratulations to the following young ladies and their schools on this great honor. The Tennessee Miss Softball from each Classification will be announced at a later date from these young ladies from each Region of the State. AAA Miss AAA Softball West Tennessee Scarlet McSwain Henry Co. Miss AAA Softball Middle Tennessee Heather Norris Clarksville Miss AAA Softball East Tennessee Maddie Ogle Maryville AA Miss AA Softball West Tennessee Elantra Cox Chester Co. Miss AA Softball Middle Tennessee Danielle Tyson DeKalb Co. Miss AA Softball East Tennessee Jordan Fortel Greenville A Miss A Softball West Tennessee Abigail Lockhart Dresden Miss A Softball Middle Tennessee Gretchen Greer Collinwood Miss A Softball East Tennessee Courtney Jones Oliver Springs DII Miss DII Softball West Tennessee Addison Maxwell Evangelical Christian Miss DII Softball East-Middle Tennessee Kelsi Dickey Friendship Christian

When I first started coaching 30 years ago. The regular season winner got an automatic berth to region, but went as runner up if they didn't win the tournament. If regular season winner won tournament also, tournament runner up went as 2nd seed. But that changed years ago in most districts. But I think the TSSAA doesn't care how you get your 2 teams to play in region, just as long as you have 2 there. I remember one year we got so much rain during tournament week we had to send regular season champs and runner up because we couldn't finish tournament. I think teams can vote to change their by laws if they wanted to go back to automatic berth. What district 10AAA does is let the regular season champion host the district tournament which we changed a few years ago, used to go to different site each year.

10 AAA does not

TSCA Coaches: This letter contains information about nominating players for the 2014 Tennessee Softball Coaches Association’s All-Stars Awards, All-State Awards, and Miss Softball Awards. If you have any questions, please contact any director for more information. 1. Only TSCA members are eligible to nominate players for awards. 2. Go to the TSCA website, www.tnsca.com. On the left side of the page, you will see tabs to vote for the following awards: All Star, All State, and Miss Softball. Fill out the appropriate information in the blanks and submit. (All Academic awards and Hall of Fame nominations are already completed for this year.) 3. The deadline to submit nominees for the awards is Sunday, May 4, 2014. 4. All-Star nominees must be seniors. They will play in the All-Stars games on June 16 at Lipscomb University, and they may be asked to participate on the Tennessee All- Stars team that plays in the Tennessee/Kentucky All-Stars games on June 25 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 5. All-State and Miss Softball nominees can be from any grade. 6. Character, attitude, and a player’s ability to be a team player should be kept in mind when you are nominating players for these awards. 7. All selections will be made before the state tournament. TSCA directors will be contacting coaches to notify them of the selections. The names will also be released on the TSCA website. 8. Coaches, please join your players on June 16 because all players receiving awards will be honored during the All-Stars games on June 16 at Lipscomb University. Also please submit good action photos from this season to Kendra Goforth at Goforth_K@hcde.org for this year’s TSCA game program. You can still view a digital copy of last year’s game program at http://issuu.com/momentummedia/docs/tsca2013?e=1348631. When you e-mail something, you should receive a reply from Kendra within 24 hours. If you do not receive a reply, please resend or contact her at 423-582-9240 (cell).

Not yet but will have them in the next few weeks. We will also be getting the ballots out in the next few ddays

Go to the following website to view the TSCA Classic scores from this past weekend with pool play and brackets. http://www.allprosoftware.net/2014TSCAClassic/

Our TSCA All Star Game will be played this year at Draper Diamond Field at Lipscomb University on Monday June 16th. We will be bringing the best seniors from across the state to compete in our annual All Star Game. The game will feature the best seniors from the East, West and Middle TN players playing against each other. We will have our fastest player contest as well as our annual Home Run Hitting Contest. We will also be recognizing our All State players, Miss Softball, our Scholarship winners and choosing our TN All Stars who will be be playing the KY All Stars at Western Kentucky on June 25th in Bowling Green KY. We will be getting our All State Ballots, All Star Ballots and the Miss Tennessee ballots to our members in the near future. Only members will be allowed to nominate players to these awards. All schools who turned in their Junior and Senior names for All Academic should have received these certificates and information about their tee shirts. If you haven't received these please contact me and we will see what has happen. Thanks John cobracoach@yahoo.com

We want to thank all of the schools who are attending the TSCA tournament this year and we now have a waiting list. Again thank you!!

We had a team to drop out of the tournament and we are going for a team to take their place, the entry fee has been paid and it will be free to the next team. If you have are looking for a tournament we can take one more team. The date is March 28th and 29th in Cookeville TN. Four game guarantee. Thanks Coach Upton upton1998@outlook.com

Silver teams are teams with young pitchers, rebuilding from loss of seniors, will not win their district Gold teams are strong teams with good pitching, returning several players and who should go far in their district and far into the playoffs The tournament is March 21st and 22nd and they are full for this year and will it be held in Cookeville

If you haven't gotten a chance go to our website to check out some of our outstanding Juniors and Seniors who have earned All Academic Awards. http://www.tnsca.com

Coach the TSCA would like to recognize our student athletes who have shown academic achievement as well as their ability to play our great sport of softball. The player must have earned a 3.5 or above Grade Point Average at the conclusion of the 1st Semester of the 2013-2014 school year. Please go to our website and submit your nominations, we will be mailing the awards back to your school where you may pass them out at your award ceremonies. Qualifications for being selective as an All Academic 1. School must be a member of Tennessee Softball Coaches Association 2. Player must be a Junior or Senior 3. Player must have a 3.50 or above GPA 4. Grades are determined from the first semester average If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Thanks John http://www.tnsca.com/All-Academic-Form.html

Only can take 3 more will be full!

We are getting some great names from several different schools from all across the state for TSCA Hall of Fame we hope to hear from your school. We will be bringing some exciting news about the Miss Softball Awards this year, stay tune for up coming info!!