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Playing and Coaching Resume
Jim
Brackin
SoftballCoach@cox.net
Member of the ASA National Softball Hall of Fame
Youth Coaching
1998 to 2007 Head Coach of 16U
Shamrocks from Northern Virginia (2005 record -- 4th place at ASA
Nationals, and International Softball Federation Junior World Cup Champions)
1988 to 1996 Head Coach of 18U
Marylanders of College Park, MD
Troy (AL) University Baseball (BS Mathematics 1971)
Fastpitch softball playing career
- Competed in 13 ASA Men's Major Fastpitch Division National Tournaments, with ten top-10 finishes
- chosen 1st team ASA All-American 5 times (twice in 40-over Division)
- ASA Major Fastpitch National Batting Champion twice (ASA Record) 1979 batted .533, 1986 batted .563, with lifetime Major National Tournament batting average of .402
- US Olympic Sports Festival medals 1982 and 1986
- Shortstop for Team USA in the Pan American Games. Won silver medals, 1979 in Puerto Rico and 1983 in Caracas, Venezuela. Selected to the team as first alternate in 1987
- Selected as Assistant Coach for Men's Team USA for the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba
- in 1996, inducted into the ASA National Softball Hall of Fame, located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He and his wife Mary reside in Fairfax, VA. Their son, James, is the webmaster for www.shamrocksoftball.org and www.topoftheorder.org.