WPCNR SPORTS. May 30, 2010: After just having watched the White Plains High School Tigers finish off New Rochelle, 4-2 Friday in the first of the sectionals in White Plains, then listening to the University of Michigan fall a run short to a very sharp University of Tennessee team, I was brought back in time to when Rob Crews helped my daughter develop batspeed and the ability to hit the ball where it's pitched with authority, as well as develop her as a pitcher.
Rob Crews Swing Man to the Stars. (2007)
Now Coaching with the National Pro Fastpitch Florida Pride
Photo, WPCNR Sports
Rob who puts stories about all his students, has a story: I would like to put in about him instead!!! Rob really is the softball icon to this tri-state area and all the many girls he has, does and will coach for years to come.
In the last three years, Rob's "batology" teaching skills helped Yorktown's Kasey O'Connor (Notre Dame), Cassie Reilly-Boccia (Alabama), Hen Hud's Kirby Wright (Nebraska) and Somers Tammy Wray (LSU) win four year softball scholarships.
There is just one more great accomplishment he has fulfilled and earned! (That would be another story in itself) He continues to expand the horizons for girls softball like none other and does so teaching each one to the talent level they never even knew they could reach! He is way ahead of his time!!!
Rob has been asked by good friend Tim Walton to be the Asst Coach National Pro Fastpitch USSSA Florida Pride of Orlando, FLA. Tim is the Coach of the Gators and one of Rob's former students, Ali Gardner of Westchester County who played in the World Series this past year...
Rob will be coaching the likes of Fastpitch pros Jessica Mendoza, Natasha Watley, Cat Osterman, just to name a few. The season's opening game will FLA Pride vs. Chicago Bandits down in Texas.
Mr. Crews in a statement from Florida has high hopes that this is the year the National Pro Fastpitch League attracts the audience it deserves, writing:
"The NPF is only as good as the support we get from the fans. With teams becoming more aggressive in their respective campaigns to acquire the best athletes and making games available by online streaming, the NPF may be onto something. I believe the NPF will turn a very important corner this season and our elite female athletes will finally get the props and cash they deserve!"
