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Concord
Sports Center and NH Lightning Partnership
Concord Sports Center is pleased
to announce a new partnership with NH Lightning ASA Softball
Program. Concord Sports Center will now be the official home
of the Lightning Program joining the Concord Cannons AAU
Baseball Program to offer local baseball and softball players
travel ball opportunities.
New Hampshire Lightning will be
offering U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 teams in 2009.
If you would like more information
regarding the program please contact Opie Pratt
603-848-5099.
Attention Lightning players:
Concord Sports Center discounted batting cage, field and
private lesson discount cards can be picked up January 1st.
What is the Amateur Softball
Association?
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.
 The
ASA has many important responsibilities as the national
governing body of softball in the United States, including
regulating competition to insure fairness and equal
opportunity to the millions of player who annually play the
sport.
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 84 local
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.
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