OKLAHOMA CITY –– USA Softball has announced the assistant coaches selected to join Head Coach Heather Tarr (Head Coach at Washington) in leading the 2022 Women’s National Team (WNT) at the Canada Cup and Japan All-Star Series this summer. Cindy Ball-Malone (Head Coach at UCF) will assist Tarr in both events alongside Brian Kolze (Head Coach at Pacific) and Jimmy Kolaitis (Assistant Coach at ASU) for the Canada Cup slated for June 20-26 in Surrey, BC, Canada while Chris Malveaux (Assistant Coach at Tennessee) and Mike Steuerwald (Head Coach at Gaston College) will join Ball-Malone and Tarr at the helm for the Japan All-Star Series held in Fukushima and Yokohama, Japan August 1-9.

About USA Softball
  USA Softball (USAS) is a 501(c)(3) not-for profit organization headquartered in Oklahoma City, Okla., and is designated as the National Governing Body (NGB) of Softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. One of the nation’s largest sports organizations, USAS sanctions competition through a network of Local Associations, which includes all 50 states and select metro associations.  USAS is dedicated to providing people of all ages the opportunity to play the game they love at a variety of levels by offering recreational, league, tournament and competitive play for fast pitch, slow pitch and modified pitch.  USAS annually conducts thousands of tournaments throughout the country including over 100 National Championships.  The USAS umpire program is among the nation’s largest and are widely known as the best trained umpires in the game.

As the NGB for the sport of softball, USAS is responsible for training, equipping and promoting the six USA Softball National Teams that compete in events such as the Olympics, Pan American Games, World Championships and other international and domestic events. For more information on USAS, including its founding and history as the Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA), please visit, www.USASoftball.com.