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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

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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

Krystyna Allman

Krystyna Allman

Assistant Coach

Favorite part of coaching for ASPIRE:
“Helping with the mental side of pitching
and being a positive role model they can look
Up to in a sport primarily coached by men.”

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Sydney Frankenburger

Sydney Frankenburger

Assistant Coach

Favorite part about coaching for ASPIRE:
“Having the opportunity to teach the girls the
sport I grew to love and show them that you can
Still have fun while working hard and learning
something new.”

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Kai Barrett

Kai Barrett

Assistant Coach

Kai says, from the moment she started working with the ASPIRE girls she has seen a lot of joy and talent from the young girls.

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Ellie Yamashita

Ellie Yamashita

Assistant Coach

Favorite part about coaching for ASPIRE
“Seeing them have fun on the field reminds me of all the happy memories that I have playing softball. This is a great group of girls with a lot of potential. I look forward to seeing what kind of athletes and young women that they become.

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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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Bridget “Bebe” Daninger

Bridget “Bebe” Daninger

Assistant Coach

She loves coaching ASPIRE because she can see all the progress they have made from their hard work and being there to see them achieve their goals.

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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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Aspire Softball Academy is a female-led, non-profit organization based on the Central Coast of California.

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What a weekend for @aspire.softballacademy. Two 1s What a weekend for @aspire.softballacademy. Two 1st place Trophies. 🏆🥇🥎🎃🎀
Our 16U competed in Octoberfest by the Sea and took home 1st place on our own home turf!
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It was a great weekend for Aspire 14U. Lots of smi It was a great weekend for Aspire 14U. Lots of smiles while cashing in some wins. Building our softball IQ and love for the game.  Big birthday shout out to our dominating pitcher @a.u.d.r.i.n.a.23.32
Amazing catch made by AD from our 12u team!! Sta Amazing catch made by AD from our 12u team!! 

Starting off the @oysasoftball Fall Ball 14u League strong 🥎
The Academy is FULL for fall! If you have already The Academy is FULL for fall! If you have already registered, we will see you next Monday!!
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Want to play for Aspire? Our competitive 14U team Want to play for Aspire? Our competitive 14U team is looking for pitchers, middle infielders, and utility players. Looking for players who can compete at a high level such as PGF. If interested, please fill out the link in our bio and attend tryouts!
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Come support our 12U Gold Team at Meadow Park in S Come support our 12U Gold Team at Meadow Park in SLO, 11:00 and 2:00
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Super proud of these girls! All of their hard work Super proud of these girls! All of their hard work has paid off! 🥎 They won their bracket this weekend to earn a PGF Premier berth. See you in Huntington Beach @pgfnetwork
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