W.W.A.S.T (Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team) benefit team, "Lady Warriors", looking for volunte

[DanMaz]

Can't wait to see you all at another great event this weekend!!!

GO Warriors!!!!

 

[coachtomv]

We ended up 4th overall in the Y-town Mayhem. Great to finally get outside on the dirt. Great job to all the teams in the tournament and Jeff Steiner for again supporting the WWAST team.

Colleen "Red" Coughlin got her first over the fence homer!



We ended up 2-2-1 on the weekend. Thank you Rob Latess from Silver Creek for coming out and being a guest coach!

 

[coachtomv]

Great job WWAST Ladies this weekend at the Valley Extreme Double Trouble.

We ended up 3rd, too bad it was rain shortened, we really wanted to get a chance to battle back through double elimination to get another crack at a very good VE Kelm/Wolfpack Dudek-Chevalier team.

We ended up 2-1-1, scored 37-11 runs.

Riley Zana, Cassidy Shaffer, and Elizabeth Dyke all had homers this weekend!


Great job everyone!

 

[coachtomv]

Next up is the Fury Early Bird NSA qualifier. Come root the Lady Warriors on if your in the area!

Here are links to info for this coming weeks Fury NSA tournament in Akron.

http://www.tourneymachine.com/Publi...7&IDDivision=h20160328141851528eab017634d6f4e

Thursday, May 05, 2016

7:30 PM @ FIRESTONE STADIUM vs BARBERTON ELITE* *Really hope we get this game in, this is the Akron Racers professional softball stadium and a very cool venue under the lights.

Saturday, May 07, 2016

9:30 AM LOGAN FIELD - Field 3 TBD2
12:30 PM LOGAN FIELD - Field 3 FURY FASTPITCH

 

[coachtomv]

Great weekend at Fury Early Bird! We had 14 players, all 14 contributed to each game.

We ended up an official 6-0, (1-1 in extra game scrimmages), to win the tournament Championship st Firestone and repeat as Champs!

Shout out to Umpire Ken Stillwagon for donating a game check to WWAST! We know how hard the umpires work on a long weekend, thanks Ken!

 

[coachjwb]

Great job, Tom and the WWAST team! And what a classy and generous donation by Ken!

 

[coachtomv]

Next up is the Outlaws Breast Cancer tournament in Streetsboro. Come root the Lady Warriors on, if your in the area!

Outlaws Breast Cancer Shootout PGF May 13-15
Streetsboro High School
8990 Kirby Lane
Streetsboro, Ohio 44241

http://www.tourneymachine.com/Publi...IDTournament=h2015040519534458746769261919745

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Game Time Location vs Team

12:00 PM Streetsboro Park - Field 6 Wolfpack-Dewalt
3:00 PM Streetsboro Park - Field 3 MADDOGS
4:30 PM Streetsboro Park - Field 3 Steel City Cyclones

 

[okiedad1961]

Coach Tom V empty your inbox and Sent messages you currently can't receive any,Thanks

 

[coachtomv]

Coach Tom V empty your inbox and Sent messages you currently can't receive any,Thanks

Sorry about that, I deleted a bunch.

 

[coachtomv]

The WWAST Lady Warriors finished their spring at the 5th Annual Lightning Invitational and a different roster was at May Madness May 20 - 22 @ Beaver Falls, PA ASA WPA.

They were mostly rained out at Beaver Falls, ended up 1-1 there. Special thanks to coach Rob Latess from Silver Creek for guest coaching along with several of our great parents!

Went 4-2 at the Lightning Invitational losing in the semi finals to eventual winner Wolfpack Dudek. Great weekend of softball, alot of close games and great plays. Special thanks to guest coach Micaela Minner for coming out on friday and coaching. It was a thrill for the girls and coaches to see you out there.

 

[coachtomv]

Great job everyone for another great Winter/Spring WWAST Lady Warrior "season". We ended up playing 6 tournaments, winning championships in "3" of them and battling deep every weekend.
We were able to continue to raise awareness and alittle money (I am tallying it up and will post what we have raised so far) for the hero's of The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team.
Very special thanks to the coaches that helped over the course of the tournaments and the tournament directors and org presidents and representatives that donate time, money, tournament fees, etc.
We obviously could not do it without all of your hard work, time, patience and big hearts:
Dan Masiello - PA Outlaws Premier
John Coughlin - Lady Lookouts
Rob Latess - Silver Creek Latess
Don Christley - Lady Lookouts
Micaela Minner - D&M
Alanna Barker - Lady Lookouts
Warren Wolff - Ohio Outlaws
John Kovalik - G-Plex
Dave Orms - Umpire
Ken Stillwagon - Umpire
Andy Soltes - Team PA
Jeff Steiner - Thunder Elite
Danny Petersen - Fury
Steve Smith, Joe Angelo - Valley Extreme
Brent Collinsworth - Ohio Lightning
Stephen from ASA WPA
Special thanks to Dennis Wince from WWAST for his enthusiastic support of our efforts!
And of course to all the players that played, attended an event or donated by purchasing a jersey in support:
1 Madi VanKirk
2 Colleen Coughlin
3 Dy Salinas
4 Sydney Monroe
5 Elizabeth Dyke
6 Autumn "Cali" Belviys
7 Riley Zana
8 Sammi Adams
9 Jules Bentley
10 Angela Masiello
11 Torrie Gall
12 Alyssa Hughes
13 Alexandra Fiske
14 Megan Ward
15 McKenna Voiers
16 Paige Halliwill
17 Cassidy Shaffer
18 Mattie Muckleroy
19 Sondra Brown
20 Emma Spoerke
21 Raegan Rowland
22 Alysha Wood
23 Leah Pancake
24 Margret Russo
25 Emily Pratt
26 Madi Long
27 Anna Welsh
28 Nina Christley
29 Katie Synesdvet
30 Abri White
31 Logan Bush
32 Shelby Mayes
33 Arrah Sandy

Hope I did not miss anyone.

Very proud to be able to help out WWAST and especially proud of all the wonderful young ladies and families that make it all possible. Very humbling.

Thank you everyone!!

 

[coachjwb]

Tom ... good post and great job with this entire effort. Regardless of the amount of money raised, the awareness raised including for those young ladies participating is outstanding! I hope this is something that continues for a long time!

 

[allcorners]

I would like to thank coach Tom Vankirk for his time and for giving all these girls the opportunity to play for such a great cause. I would also like to thank coach Dan and coach John. I would like to thank all the guest coaches and all the organization's that gave this team the opportunity to play and for donating the entrance fee's. Thank you to all the parents of the girls that played. This has truly been a great experience for my daughter. We are thankful for the opportunity to play for such a great cause.

 

[coachtomv]

Tom ... good post and great job with this entire effort. Regardless of the amount of money raised, the awareness raised including for those young ladies participating is outstanding! I hope this is something that continues for a long time!

It started as one tournament in 2014 for a local charity for a fire in our hometown. Then was going to be one in 2015 for The WWAST that became "4" tournaments and 34 players by years end, then another "8" winter 2015- spring 2016 (2 full or partial rain outs).

When I say its humbling, it really is. I have had the distinct honor and pleasure to coach approx 50 of the finest young ladies, leaders and softball players in Ohio and PA. And to do it with some of the best coaches and parents, all in it for the right reasons. Truly no drama at all, lots of smiles, excitement and energy every weekend.

Plenty of friendships made, positive softball and life connections. I know I learned alot as a coach from the coaches, players and families with a wealth of softball knowledge. I hope the girls did also and all had a great experience playing with us and against us.

Thank you!

 

[coachtomv]

Also, as far as continuing the Lady Warrior efforts....

We were awarded an opportunity to play in the PGF Midwestern Nationals July 28-31 in Peoria IL at 14u. We will look for a sponsor(s) to pay our entrance fees. Once our summer team knows where we will be, I'll be contacting players not already heading to a nationals and see what roster will can put together to compete. Entrance fee for players will just be a donation of purchasing our next team uniform, with name/nickname on back,(30% gets donated to WWAST):

https://www.cagear.com/store/custom-name-number/wwast-traditional-camo-jersey/



We will be attending a WWAST event in Columbus to finally meet the guys we are all so proud of:

http://woundedwarrioramputeesoftballteam.org/event/columbus-oh/

We will also be taking a WWAST team down to Myrtle Beach Oct 14-16 for an ASA tournament at 16-18u sponsored by Mark Skapin.

I apologize in advance, I cannot take all players that may be interested and will have to make decisions based on position and past support of WWAST first. Those that know me, know the last thing I want to do is exclude anyone from the experience, but need to keep rosters to 12 in this case so all get quality playing time for the expensive commitments to travel and such.

Other than that I'll have to see what our summer team for next season has planned to schedule more events, also my DD is in High School ball next year as a freshman and that will limit it some also.

Thank you.

 

[coachtomv]

Check out this awesome video about The WWAST:


https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.17...=37e36ef3b7c16cd3122439dba21a12f9&oe=574DE9C7

 

[Jae13]

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing Tom!

 

[coachtomv]

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing Tom!

Your welcome. So many think we represent the Wounded Warrior Project, but we do not.

We wanted our support to be "smaller", more personable, and whats better then for softball players to support softball wounded warriors?