Head Coach
Jason Ashley
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A first-year 10U club team, forming right now in Sherwood. Help define what it means to be a Fireball. Season one opens Fall 2026.
Stronger, more confident, more capable than the girls who showed up in the fall. We challenge them hard, we care for them deeply, and we teach them to compete with grace.
Years from now, we want her to look back and know this is where it started.
Growth lives on the other side of easy. We hand her hard things, expect her best, and let her wrestle with something before we step in. The struggle is where she gets stronger.
We cheer the dive as loudly as the catch. We measure her against her own last week, and we celebrate the effort she brings, every time.
Here, a mistake is just part of getting better. We name what went right, fix what went wrong, and move on, so she learns to fail forward and keep swinging.
Roles are earned. We put each girl where she can grow and where she gives the team its best chance, then we stretch her from there. Growth and winning go together.
Every role matters and every role serves the team: the lineup spot, the innings in the field, all of it. We rise and fall together, and we want girls who want that too.
We win with humility and lose with our heads high. We respect every opponent, every umpire, and every teammate, win or lose.
Bring those ingredients, and we'll teach the rest.
"We are family" is our chant, and around here, it's the deal.
The people in the dugout
Three coaches, three daughters on this team. We're here to help her get better through patient, thoughtful instruction, with a laugh or two never far off.
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It's our chant, and it's the truth of the thing. The girls become real friends who pick each other up. The parents are in it together.
Here, she's cared for no matter what, and that safety is exactly what lets us ask hard things of her.
The honest math
Club ball is a real investment, and we won't pretend otherwise. But we built this team local-first on purpose: most weekends you're close to home, and the tournaments we host cost us nothing to enter. Here's the honest shape of it.
The Sherwood Fireballs' published range for a 10U team. Local play keeps us toward the low end.
These figures come straight from the Sherwood Fireballs. What you actually pay depends on how many tournaments we play and how fundraising goes — and we'll publish the real, all-in number before tryouts so there are no surprises.
Local-first isn't a slogan. It's how we keep the cost, and the weekends, sane.
The Fireballs host tournaments on their home fields here. When we play those, we don't pay to enter — we pitch in to help run the weekend instead. Home games, home crowd.
Where most of our season lives: fall ball and the bulk of our tournaments, all within an easy drive. Short trips, home in time for dinner, no hotels.
The plan is one drivable destination trip a year, somewhere like the coast. The fun kind of road trip, not the every-weekend grind.
How to become a Fireball
No pressure, no spectacle. A couple of hours on the field so we can see how she moves, how she listens, and how she competes. Come as she is.
We start easy. Light throwing, a little running, a chance to shake the nerves and meet the coaches.
A few rounds of hitting. We're watching her swing and her approach, not counting home runs.
Ground balls, fly balls, and a few throws. We want to see her hands, her feet, and her hustle.
We put it together with some live reps, so we can see how she reads the game and picks up her teammates.
After tryouts, you'll hear within 48–72 hours, win or lose. If she's earned a spot, that comes with a phone call — and you'll have 24 hours to claim it.
A first-year 10U club team, a real step up from rec for girls who want more. We compete to win, and that pursuit is part of how these girls grow: we chase it hard, we celebrate it, and we develop every girl while we do.
We're based in Sherwood, Oregon, and we're recruiting from Sherwood and the surrounding area. This is a 10U team, so by USA Softball's age chart she's 10 or younger as of September 1, 2026. If she's coming out of rec and ready for more, you're exactly who we're talking to.
What matters is simpler than talent: she loves the game, she listens, she works hard, and she cares about doing her best. Bring that, and we build the rest together.
Tryouts are Thursday, July 30 at Sherwood Middle School and Thursday, August 6 at Sherwood High School — pitchers & catchers at 5pm, all positions at 6pm. We form the team over the summer so we're ready for fall ball right after. See Tryouts for how the day goes and what to bring, and pre-register here so we know she's coming.
More than rec, and we want you to know going in. Tryouts are July 30 and August 6, the team forms over the summer, and we open with fall ball — the NAFA Sunday Fall League, four Sundays of doubleheaders, all close to home — plus a local tournament to close out the year. In 2027 we'll set the schedule together as a team: a handful of tournaments around Newberg, Sherwood, Salem, and other easy-to-reach spots, plus one fun drivable trip like the coast. Think of season one as a year together, not a few weekends — we keep travel light and mostly local, but the time and the togetherness are real.
We've laid out the honest math in What it costs to play — the Sherwood Fireballs' published 10U range is $600–1,200 for the year, plus $300 in club registration, and two team fundraisers help bring it down. Local play keeps us toward the low end. Final numbers land before tryouts, with no surprises.
Show up, stay positive, and pitch in. Someone runs the GameChanger, someone organizes snacks, someone picks the walk-up songs, everyone lends a hand with the two team fundraisers, and everyone helps clean up. Family means everyone has a job, and that's a big part of why this works.
We're a club team under the Sherwood Fireballs (SFPA).
Pre-register and we'll know she's coming. Have a question first? Email us — one of us will get back to you personally.
Two Thursday evenings: July 30 at Sherwood Middle School and August 6 at Sherwood High School. Pitchers & catchers at 5pm, all positions at 6pm. Takes about two minutes — it just tells us she's coming.
Pre-register on TeamSnapNot sure she's ready, or just want to talk to a human first? We'd love that.
sherwoodfireballs@gmail.com