I know what it's like to learn this game alone.
Triple Play Academy is what I wish my younger self could have found on a slow afternoon, frustrated, scrolling through YouTube for the hundredth time, trying to figure out what her arm was supposed to be doing.
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I learned to pitch from YouTube.
When I was little, my dad was coaching my first rec team. He asked the group, "who wants to pitch?" I raised my hand. I could already see the wheels turning behind his eyes: now we both need to learn how to pitch.
He hand-built me tools. He caught every bullpen. He spent endless hours on YouTube trying to teach me a skill neither of us knew, with no pitching coaches anywhere around. After plenty of afternoons chasing overthrown balls down the street, I made a travel team, and my competitive softball career began.
For thirteen years, my dad was right there helping me learn. He gave it everything. What we never had was the one thing that would have changed all of it: someone who actually knew the mechanics.
What it cost me.
By high school, I had serious rotator cuff problems from overuse and improper mechanics. Countless doctor's visits, physical therapy, more rolls of athletic tape than I can count. I had no idea my mechanics were the problem. I just shook it off as too many innings pitched that week.
I was the only pitcher on my high school team. So when a season-ending injury hit my sophomore year, I started teaching my teammates to pitch so we could finish our season. That was the first time I ever coached anyone, and it turned out I loved it.
I kept working, stayed on my recruiting, and earned a spot pitching for Agnes Scott College in Georgia. When I met my college pitching coach, she watched me throw and asked, "who was your pitching coach?" I told her, "I didn't have one. My dad and I learned from YouTube." She said, "your mechanics are a mess." I said, "well, they got me here, didn't they?"
My college years were rough. I started the year COVID hit. But I graduated early and earned the Coach's Award for softball.
What I learned the hard way.
After all of that, I finally went and learned the thing no one had ever been able to teach me. I studied the biomechanics of pitching until I understood why my arm had broken down for all those years. It was never the innings. It was the mechanics.
There is a much better-understood way for the arm to move through a pitch now, what coaches call internal rotation, and it produces real speed with far less wear on the shoulder. The science moved forward. A lot of instruction hasn't caught up. That is the thing I hold onto: just because something was the standard when I learned it doesn't mean it's still the best we know.
Why I built Triple Play Academy
I joined the workforce in marketing after I graduated. But my story with softball didn't feel finished. Then one call asking me to coach changed my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I founded Triple Play Academy in December 2023, and went back for a Masters in Sport Administration so I could build this into a real, lasting career and keep helping girls for good.
I built it for girls like me: the ones who want to work hard but are miles from the help they need. And for parents like my dad, who would have given anything to have someone help them figure out the pieces. I focus on remote coaching so distance stops being the thing that holds a pitcher back.
Now I coach a high school team, a travel team, and a roster of pitchers from age 8 through college, most of them remotely and scattered across the country.
My favorite thing in the world is meeting a girl exactly where I once was: wanting it badly, and a long way from anyone who can help. She doesn't have to figure it out alone anymore.
"I want every girl I coach to become her own pitching coach.
A student of the game who takes ownership of her training."
How I Coach
I teach the why.
Drills without understanding are reps that don't compound. My pitchers know what their body is supposed to be doing and why, before they ever do it.
I update what I teach when the science updates.
Pitching instruction has come a long way, and a lot of it hasn't caught up. I came up on the old mechanics, and I have the injuries to show for it. I teach the way the body is actually built to throw, what coaches call internal rotation, because I'd rather give her the mechanics that protect her arm than the ones that broke mine.
I coach the whole athlete.
Strength, mobility, mental game, body care. A pitcher with great mechanics and a body that breaks down is a pitcher who doesn't pitch. The work I do off the mound matters as much as the work on it.
Who I work best with
The pitchers who thrive with me are the ones who want to understand what their body is doing, not just be told what to do. That's true whether she's brand new to the circle or already one of the hardest throwers on her team.
The families who get the most out of TPA communicate with me, treat the work between sessions as the real work, and let the athlete lead her own development while they support from the sideline.
If that sounds like you, we're going to get along.