USA Softball

Formerly the Amateur Softball Association (ASA)/USA Softball, USA Softball (USAS) has many important responsibilities as the National Governing Body of softball in the United States, including regulating competition to insure fairness and equal opportunity to the millions of players who play the sport.

When USAS entered the picture in 1933, the sport was in a state of confusion with no unified set of playing rules and no National Governing Body to provide guidance and stability. USAS changed all that by adopting softball's first universally accepted rules of play and by organizing consistent and fair competition across the nation. From this beginning, USAS has become one of the nation's largest and fastest growing sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of state/metro associations. USAS has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 120,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than 2 million. More about USA Softball can be found on its website at https://www.teamusa.org/usa-softball/about-usa-sb.

History of the Amateur Softball Association as found on the ASA website before the change to USA Softball

The ASA, a volunteer driven, not-for-profit organization based in Oklahoma City, OK was founded in 1933 and has evolved into the strongest softball organization in the country. The growth and development of the association let the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to name the ASA the National Governing Body of Softball, pursuant to the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.

The ASA has many important responsibilities as the national governing body of softball in the United States, including regulating competition to insure fairness and equal opportunity to the millions of players who annually play the sport. When the ASA entered the softball picture in 1933, the sport was in a state of confusion with no unified set of playing rules and no national governing body to provide guidance and stability. The ASA changed all that by adopting softball's first universally accepted rules of play and by organizing consistent and fair competition across the nation.

From this beginning, the ASA has become one of the nation's largest and fastest growing sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 250,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than four million.

For more about the ASA and its history, go to https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/About-USA-SB/History.

For a list of past ASA Women's Major Fast Pitch National Tournament results and awards go tohttp://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/Play-ASA/ASA-National-Championships-and-Qualifiers/ASA-Prior-Champions and select Women's Major Fast Pitch in the Classification of Play drop down box.

For info about the ASA Softball Hall of Fame go to https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/National-Softball-Hall-of-Fame/Members and select Women's Fast Pitch in the Category drop down box.