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Upcoming Clinics

Aspire 4 days June and July softball clinic session

Softball 2-day clinic

  • June 16-17
  • June 30 – July 1
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Aspire 2 day June softball pitching clinic session

Softball pitching clinic

  • June 17 & 18
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Aspire 2 day June softball catching clinic session

Softball catching clinic

  • June 19 & 20
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Aspire Love Softball Camp v2

Love softball camp

  • June 24-27
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Aspire Love Softball Camp v3

Love softball camp

  • July 7-11
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Upcoming Clinics

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Softball 2-day clinic

  • June 18-19
  • June 25-25
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Softball 2-day clinic

  • June 20-21
  • June 27-28
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Aspire June pitching clinic

Softball pitching clinic

  • June 11 & 13
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Aspire June catching clinic

Softball catching clinic

  • June 18 & 20
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Mission Statement

The Aspire Softball Academy strives to use Softball as a tool to build confident, secure, strong girls and empower them in life…including work ethic, sportsmanship, goal setting, and perseverance.

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Coaches and Leadership

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Sheila McGuire – Head Coach

Sheila McGuire

Sheila McGuire

Head Coach and Founder

My coaching philosophy is players learn in many different ways, so I strive to build rapport and relationship, and then work on the mental game along with the physical skills. Build confident, secure, strong girls who share a passion for playing softball and hopefully learn skills that help them in life.

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Sheila McGuire at College World Series 2021

Sheila McGuire at College World Series 2021

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Shiela McGuire Bio

  • Travel ball coach for nationally recognized California Grapettes for more than 20 years 12U-18U : Numerous Div I players, All Americans, and approximately 40 athletes went on to play Div.1 Four became US Softball Olympic athletes that I trained. Jennifer Spediacci (Univ. of Washington Pitcher) and Kobie Pettis (Cal 1st base) One of my highlights is seeing a few of my former players competing in the WCWS Juliana Santos (SS-LSU-2008-2012) and Erin Arevalo (Univ. of Georgia Pitcher) and Kaila Shull (Catcher-UCLA)
  • Coach San Joaquin Delta College, League titles, Runner Up California State Championship 2011 in charge of pitchers, catchers, team building, defensive plays, pitch calling Katie Cotta (Concordia- All American Pitcher) Best pitcher in the United States! #1 recruit for Power 5’s out of high school.
  • Coach Cuesta College 2012-2015 League title, Runner up, play offs each year
  • Western State Conference Coach of the Year 2014
  • Coach SLOHS last place team to league champs year one in 2017, High School Coach of the Year
  • Catcher for Univ. of the Pacific, played for Brian Kolze 1990-1994
  • 4 years worked for ATHPRO out of Southern California which measured athletic skills for softball recruiting. We took measurements from many Division 1 programs and used them for our data comparisons. Over 75 players signed at varying levels from my recruiting assistance, camps, testing, videoing, and mentoring recruits

Assistant Coaches

Grace Thayer

Grace Thayer

Assistant Coach

She loves coaching for ASPIRE to see the growth of the players, push themselves, and watching them become good teammates.

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Facility

The Aspire facility is a state of the art indoor training facility that offers the following features

  • Full padded turf flooring
  • Hanging nets for batting lanes
  • Pitching machines
  • HitTrax batting software

The Aspire training facility is also available for rental. We have had so much rain that we have had to use the facility more than ever expected. We have also had many other players, baseball, soccer, and other sports groups purchase time from us to stay dry and get some reps.

If you need to schedule some private training, or need to rent an amazing indoor facility for training or an event, please send us a message using the form below.

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NEW CLASSES START IN JANUARY!!! 1/6 Mondays 4-6 (4 NEW CLASSES START IN JANUARY!!! 1/6
Mondays 4-6 (4 spots left-12U-high school) or higher skilled players
Fridays 4-6 (10 spots left 10u-12u beg./intermediate skill level) 
All skills DEFENSE/OFFENSE each week will be worked on!! 
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Perfect timing before Spring season starts!!! Cam Perfect timing before Spring season starts!!!

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What sets us a part from everyone else is our coac What sets us a part from everyone else is our coaching staff! We have coaches that are college coaches, players, former college players, and lots of college experience.
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Aspire Softball Academy would like to send out a huge thank you to our sponsors! We really couldn’t do this without them. Please take a look below and support these local San Luis Obispo County businesses.

 

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