Lesley Pipher from Toronto, Ontario Canada grew up playing softball, at the age of 9. She quickly realized that the pitching circle was where she wanted to be. Her well decorated pitching career spanned 41 years. She competed nationally and internationally as a 5 year member of the Great Britain National Softball Team. In 2017, …
Kellee Vornhagen learned to be a competitor growing up in a small town in South Dakota playing sports with the neighborhood boys. Although she pitched growing up, she never really had formal training, she was just athletic enough to figure out how to throw. It wasn’t until she started coaching high school ball that she …
Kristie Spielman-Phillip is a former Division I Softball Pitcher out of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Kristie was ranked 15th in the nation her freshman year after coming off a dazzling high school record of 42-0 for West Chicago High School. Kristie’s passion for the sport of softball, and the human movement behind the art of pitching, led …
Dani Sowder was born and raised in Cleveland, Tennessee. Dani started playing softball at an early age and started pitching at age 8. She played through High School at Walker Valley and two years in College. Dani has been a coach and conducted numerous camps/clinics, and provided private lessons for over the last 4yrs. She …
Jen Pockrus began playing softball at a very young age, but it wasn’t until her 8th grade year that her team needed a pitcher. That year she began weekly pitching lessons, and eventually became the starting varsity pitcher for her high school team. Feeling as though she was always trying to “catch up” to more experienced …
Laurie Wilson was born in Savannah Georgia and played softball while traveling the world as a military dependent. She began coaching softball teams in 2002 while living in Jacksonville Florida. During this time, she began learning as much as possible about pitching mechanics. In 2011, Laurie moved to McKinney Texas and began instructing individual players. …
Junior Burns comes to Tincher pitching as a result of a need in his local community. Having experienced, as a parent and coach, the limited resources in the North Mississippi area, he searched for an instructor for his own daughter and several other players in order to protect their health at the current time and …
Katie Tong began pitching at the age of 10 and never looked back, after igniting her passion when she struck out the first batter she ever faced. Katie was a self-taught pitcher as instructors were not accessible. She would study her opponents and scout successful pitchers at tournaments. Katie applied what she learned to her own pitching and discovered how to …
Kristen Coffay is originally from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Holy Redeemer High School in 2017 where she was a member of Holy Redeemer’s 2015 and 2016 Pennsylvania State Championship teams. After a successful high school career, Kristen continued her softball career at the Division 2 level. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown in …
Originally from Muncie, Indiana, Matt Pryor now lives in Southwest Indiana in the city of Jasper. As part of Matt’s first teaching job at a small rural school, he was ‘asked’ to coach softball. He had his eyes set on being a football coach until his passion shifted quickly to softball. Not having the knowledge …
Jean Toler graduated from California State University, Hayward after playing four years of collegiate softball and earning her B.A. in Sociology. She continued her pitching career playing in the Netherlands before returning home, starting a family, and building a successful marketing career within the engineering industry. Jean has served as a coach and pitching instructor for local …
Elizabeth Price graduated from Texas A&M in 2014 and has been coaching softball ever since. After playing in high school and working for the Aggie softball program her love for the game has kept her involved with the sport via coaching High School ball, volunteering with a local softball non-profit, and giving pitching lessons. She …
Our story began when a little girl begged her father to teach her to pitch. Since there were no pitching instructors in the area, her father thought it would be fun to learn about this strange motion together. Denny Tincher began a study that would last a lifetime, going to college games to video great pitchers, studying videos of …
Crystal grew up in an era in Western Kentucky when they did not offer fastpitch softball until she was in high school! While in high school, she lettered four years in softball and three in basketball. Her senior year she was named to the all-district team in both sports and Kentucky All-Stars team in softball. …
Paige grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and has loved the game of softball since she threw her first ball. After excelling in competitive travel ball throughout her youth, she went on to play D1 softball for Georgia Tech from 1986-1990. She was a 4-year starting pitcher with a career low 1.5 ERA her Junior year …
