If you have any questions or would like to receive additional details about the program, please contact AMFA Director of Player Development, Leasa Lepine at players@amfa.ca

Jeana Boyd contact email jeana_215@hotmail.com

Additional Tryouts held on:

Monday Sept 19 2011
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Tuesday Sept 20, 2011
7:30pm – 9:00pm

Following high school, Jeana attended Seminole State College in Seminole, OK, on a full athletic scholarship. While there her team received third place honours at the NJCAA National Championship in 2003, and her personal awards included NFCA NJCAA All-American Honours in 2003 and 2004, and being selected to the NJCAA Academic Team of the Year in 2004.

Next, Jeana attended Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA, again on full scholarship. In 2005-2006, Jeana received the AASU’s President Cup, which is awarded to the university’s top female student-athlete at AASU. She was and still is only the second softball player to receive this prestigious award at AASU. After completing her undergraduate degree in Biology, Jeana gained three years of international playing and coaching experience with Neptunus Sportclub in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Jeana played for the first team of the organization, while coaching the second and third teams.

In 2009-2010, Jeana was the Graduate Assistant coach at Eastern New Mexico University, in Portales, NM. She coached there for a full academic year prior to settling here in BC. Along with her playing and coaching career in Europe and in the USA, Jeana has been instructing at Power Zone Baseball and Softball Academy during the winters since October, 2008, and full-time since November, 2010. She will also be instructing at Yale Academy with Power Zone starting Fall, 2011. Lastly, Jeana is currently finishing her Master’s degree in Physical Education, specializing in Sport Administration via distance learning at ENMU, with her expected completing being May, 2012.

WELCOME TO THE PROGRAM JEANA!

There were a number of Outlaws’ girls, however, that were recognized for their outstanding play by Softball Canada Officials. 2nd baseman, Kelsey Hamade was named to the U16 All-star Team with a batting average of .476 as well as pick-up catcher, Anna Battison from Tsawwassen with a batting average of .375. These two players had outstanding defensive play to receive this recognition. Centrefielder, Chelsea Jenner received an individual award as the Tournament’s Top Batter with an impressive .632 batting average with the most hits. Also, Pitcher Morganne Blattmann contributed to the Outlaws’ efforts with three victories in six pool play games. Congratulations to all the Outlaws players representing Abbotsford and British Columbia on a job well done!

From left to right: Anna Battison, Bat Girl Kelsey, Morganne Blattmann, Shayla McRae, Kelsey Hamade, Cassidy Ward, Chelsea Jenner, Holly Pundick, Kylie Ruebens-Augustson, Alexis Johnston, Samantha Horacsek, Ali Heard, Official Umpire Kyle, Taleah Schulte and Julia Willson (missing due to injury).

The Abbotsford Outlaws 95A team would like to thank the community and local businesses for their financial support, along with the local papers and radio stations that helped get the girls to this National event. Thank you!

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The Abbotsford softball team history goes back generations. Shortstop Julia Willson, for instance, is a third generation softball player from the Parker/Willson family. Julia’s Grandmother, Annie Corke is in the Abbotsford Sports Hall of Fame. Here, old newspaper clippings tell the story of the historical team in the small community of Mt. Lehman. Julia’s mother played for the Mt. Lehman Angels in the Mt. Lehman area of Abbotsford in the late 1970s. Julia, shown to the right, shows a colour picture of her mom on the Mt. Lehman softball team. Today the Abbotsford Outlaws play out of Exhibition Park. Over and above this year’s Provincial bronze medal, Abbotsford Outlaws 95 has amassed two BC Provincial gold medals, one bronze medal in the Western Canadian Championships, and one silver medal at the US Western World Series over the past three years.

The teams’ travel to the Nationals in Winnipeg is a huge financial commitment. We are looking to our business community for financial support through sponsorship to help off-set the expenses for this ‘chance of a lifetime’ opportunity for these athletes. If you would like to ‘step up to the plate’ with a financial donation, it would be greatly appreciated by the team and would also provide a fantastic advertising opportunity for businesses. To make a donation or request further information, please contact Linda Horacsek phone at 604-820-9601 or e-mail horacsek@shaw.ca

Sixteen top 13 and 14 year-old girls fastball teams from throughout BC completed in Cranbrook on July 8, 9 and 10. The Indians went 2-2 in round robin play against teams from West Kootenay, Richmond, Nanaimo and Gibsons. The team made it into the semi-final round, eventually losing to the Mission Ambition and the eventual gold-medal winning Cranbrook Heat.

“I’m incredibly proud of this team,” says Coach Rob Hamm. “Just making it to the provincial’s is a great accomplishment, and team played better and better each game against increasingly difficult competition.” Hamm says a great example of this improved play was the 6-5 loss to Cranbrook in the semi-finals, “The Heat were 4-0 and hadn’t faced any real competition in the tournament. They weren’t expecting a close game and we were tied with them going into the final inning—it was anyone’s game right to the end.” Cranbrook went on to win the gold medal, defeating the Kelowna Homers 13-0 in the final.

The Indians were led by the stellar play of pitchers Brina Atkinson and Janelle Kent and strong defensive play from catcher Laurel Hamm, Kelsey Barclay at third base, and shortshop Kalie Adamson. MVP’s for the tournament included Brina Atkinson, Janelle Kent, Jaylene Soegard, Sam Cruse, Laurel Hamm and Kalie Adamson.

Photo caption: Abbotsford Indians at the Peewee C Provincial Championship in Cranbrook BC, July 10, 2011.

Top row: Erika Condon
Middle row (l-r): Emma Livingstone, Janelle Kent, Kelsey Barclay, Alexandra Barbour
Bottom row (l-r): Jaylene Soegard, Alexis Clarke, Sam Cruse, Laurel Hamm, Kalie Adamson, Brina Atkinson, Cassie Terepocki

During playoff action they defeated Nitro 8-0, Stealth 9-1 and for the finals, they beat Rising Stars 5-0. This season the girls have had many successes in both league and tournament play. The Outlaws 97 A team has placed second in 4 tournaments,one third place, and one first place. The girls are gearing up for provincials in Newton from July 15 – 17.

Good luck Outlaws!!!