GT Shockers Organization

[CraigS]

With tryouts in the air, I thought I would let those not familiar with our organization know a little bit about us.

GT Shockers started with a 10U team seven years ago in 2004, making us one of the newest "organizations" in the Golden Triangle. The majority of those girls now play for our Gold team. We established the GT Shockers Gold in fall of 2007.

Since then we have had several other age divisons off and on. We, as most look for excellance in our players and coaches. We feel we get exactly that from the people (player, coaches, and parents) involved with the GT Shockers organization.

Whereas we dont claim to always have the "best" talent in the area, it all starts with our players and staffs will to work hard.

In the 4 years of existance of the "Gold" program we feel we are on track as far as our goals are concerned. We play exclusively in Gold Qualifiers or Showcase tournaments. Our main focus is to get the kids a softball scholarship at the highest level we feel possible matched with their abilities and desires.

We do this by focusing on top recruiting opportunities, and relentless efforts by our staff (recruiters and coaches). Our tournament schedule includes Gold Qualifiers, and the absolute best showcases in the state of Texas, Louisville Slugger, Ronald McDonald, Freedom Invitational, both Elite tourn. in Plano, and various round robins on college campus' (including UL-Lafayette)

Our staff is second to none, by way of their own accomplishments within the game of softball.

Robert Armentrout - Head Coach - has accomplished either as a head coach or an assitant, 1 National Championship, 2 HS State Championships, 5 time Gold qualifier (top Gold finish 9th in the country) Including Gold National Qualifier with Shockers Gold (the only current team to accomplish this feat)

Jess Lempoine - Assistant coach - Division I softball player (UL-L top 20 program in the country) Head H.S. softball coach, as a player qualified Gold nat's 4 times, (top Gold finish 9th in the country) and won 1 National Championship.

Jimmie Weise - Recruiter - 24 of 24 (100% signing rate) players signed and/or committed to play college softball in just 4 short years. Including 5 DI - 5 DII - 1 DIII - 1 NAIA - and 12 JUCO

We also utilize some of our other experienced coaches (parents of older players with coaching experience) to coach and/or assist in coaching our younger age divisions.

Coaches of all age divisions are rquired to spend practice time in and around the experience our staff offers. We not only offer open practices combining our younger teams with our older teams - We Require It! We also open these opportunites up for any player with the desire to learn from our staffs experience.

If you are looking for an opportunity for your child and she doesn't mind hard work, we look forward to seeing you at tryouts.

[badndn]

Did all 24 signees get some form of scholarship? Just asking to get a gauge on percentage of signees getting schollies overall not just from GT Shockers.

[CraigS]

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Did all 24 signees get some form of scholarship? Just asking to get a gauge on percentage of signees getting schollies overall not just from GT Shockers.
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To "my" Knowledge yes....Jimmie would know more about that and may even know what percentages of the scholarships were athletic money and academic money....of course we know the DIII was all academic money.

[trout]

[quote name="badndn" post="1023111" timestamp="1310134463"]
Did all 24 signees get some form of scholarship? Just asking to get a gauge on percentage of signees getting schollies overall not just from GT Shockers.
[/quote] Everyone of them recieved scholarship money to play softball in college and in the DIII schools they all recieved acedemic money we made sure. We also have always helped and made sure that any  JUCO kids that wanted to continue playing softball we helped them find someplace to play everytime. We do stay in contact with former players and help anywhere we can.