[Alsfastball] Media Release - Selection of Assistant Coach for Jr. Men- Canada

[Al Doran]

From: "Lisette Johnson-Stapley" <lstapley at softball.ca>
Subject: Media Release - Selection of Assistant Coach for Jr. Men
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:15:45 -0400



For immediate release
September 16, 2004

Softball Canada selects Assistant Coach for Junior Men’s National Team

(Ottawa, ON)  Softball Canada is pleased to announce that Doug Neil from 
Wingham, ON has been selected as the Pitching Coach with Canada’s Junior 
Men’s National Team.  Neil will work with Head Coach Kelly McGiffin 
(Okanagan Falls, B.C.) and Assistant Coach Tom Doucette (Musquodoboit, 
NS).  He will use his expertise to help select and prepare Canada’s best 
junior men fast pitch players in Canada for the 2005 Junior Men’s ISF World 
Softball Championships which will be held next summer in Summerside, PEI 
from June 22 – July 1, 2005.

"I am extremely grateful for having the chance to be involved with the 
Canadian Junior Men's Softball Team,"  stated Doug Neil.  "I am looking 
forward to working with the coaching staff and athletes as we prepare for 
the 2005 World Championships."  “I believe strongly that pitchers are 
developed with hours and hours of hard work and good drills and I am 
thrilled with the opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with our 
young players,”  added Neil.

"We are pleased to have someone of Doug's calibre join our Junior Men's 
Coaching Staff,” stated Head Coach of the Men’s National Team Program, Mark 
Smith.  “His successes and experience in working with athletes in the 
junior age group is a definite asset to our program."

Doug’s softball background includes playing, coaching and instructing.  He 
played softball in Waterloo for many years and has conducted pitching 
clinics in both Canada and the US.  He has also produced two pitching 
videos.  He has coached players from mite age to intermediate in Wingham, 
Ontario.  Doug has been involved with Team Ontario’s boy’s team with the 
Canada Summer Games since 1991 - he was the Pitching Coach at the 1993 
games in Kamloops, B.C.; Assistant Coach at the 1997 games in Brandon, MB 
(Gold Medal) and the Head Coach for the 2001 games in London, ON (Gold Medal).

The Junior Men’s ISF World Championships take place every 4 years.  Canada 
has had success on the world stage with the following rankings:

2001 (Sydney, AUS) Bronze
1997 (St. John’s, NFLD) Bronze
1993 (Auckland, NZ) Gold
1989 (Summerside, PEI) Silver
1985 (Fargo, North Dakota) Bronze
1981 (Edmonton, AB) 4th

Canada will assemble teams from across the World during the ISF World 
Championships in Summerside, PEI.  Softball Canada will be announcing the 
athletes who have accepted invitations to next spring’s junior men's 
national team selection camp in the following weeks.

Softball Canada is the national sport governing body for the sport of fast 
pitch, slo-pitch and orthodox softball in Canada.

For more information, please contact Lisette Johnson Stapley, Marketing & 
Communications Director with Softball Canada at 613-523-3386 ext. 3105 or 
lstapley at softball.ca

Lisette Johnson Stapley
Directrice du Marketing & Communications Director
Softball Canada
2197 Promenade Riverside Drive
Ottawa, ON  K1H 7X3
Tel. (613) 523-3386 ext. 3105
Fax/Telec. (613) 523-5761
<mailto:lstapley at softball.ca>lstapley at softball.ca *** www.softball.ca

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