movin' them to the next level

Thought it would be interesting to see a list of the organizations/teams that, over say the past five years, have promoted the most players to the college level.
It would also be interesting to see them listed with a breakdown of in state/out of state or by conference, as well as DI, DII, DIII or juco.

In baseball (sorry Fish!) I can look at the Impact/Dirtbags, Hurricanes, SC Panthers and the Cubs sites and find 75% to 80% of the NC boys and where they will, or are, playing at the next level. Can't seem to find this with softball.

 

NC Challengers

First / Last Name College/University


Angie Barrnet Longwood University D1
Joanie Blevins Peace College D3
Julie Bowlin Peace College D3
Jaimee Cassidy Pfeiffer College D2
Lauren Caviness Campbell University D1
Monica Champagne Peace D3
Brittany Coffey Peace College D3
Anna Cooke Pitt CC JUCO
Bailey Cotton Greensboro College D3
Niki Dobbins Peace College D3
Lacie Caulder Peace College
Erica Ennis University of North Carolina D1
Amy Faucette Methodist College D3
Krista Giles Meredith College D3
Lisa Gott North Carolina State D1
Kikki Grady UNC of Greensboro D1
Summer Greer Peace College D3
Megan Greer Peace College D3
Audri Hamm App State D1
Eva Herrion East Carolina University D1
Meagan Knight Greensboro College D3
Melanie Legrow Peace College D3
Carol Lilley Elon University D1
Kerry McGee East Carolina University D1
Whitney Meeks Elon University D1
Kelly Minchew Mount Olive D2
Melissa Moore UNC Wilmington D1
Chelsie Parrish UNC Charlotte D1
Jamie Pittman Greensboro College D3
Nikki Prier Jacksonville State D1
Meredith Schwane Averitt University D3
Kenni Seagrove Peace College D3
Jamie Shanahan Elon University D1
Jennifer Simms Greensboro College D3
Jenna Smith Peace College D3
Beth Sprinkle Meredith College D3
Ashley Stansbury Peace College D3
Haley Suitt Peace D3
Erica Tucker Peace College D3
Morgan Vickers Lenoir Rhyne D2
Morgan Weathington Peace D3
Amy Wilkerson Peace College D3
Amanda Beach Peace College D3
Lindsey Haver Peace College D3
Nadia Jefferies NC Central D1
Morgan Wright Elon D1
Alex Allen Chowan D2
Morgan Andrews Guilford D3
Ashton Hutcherson Pfieffer D2
Morgan Barbour NCSU D1
Danielle Puckett Belmont Abbey D2
Ashley Shingleton UNC-W D1


I sure I missed some

 

awesome, that's what I was thinking about!

 

You're going to have a lot more than 4 teams to get to that percentage.

 

in softball you may very well be right. In baseball, around a third of UNC's roster are former Dirtbags. Don't know if there's anything like that in softball... be interesting to see.

 

Who do the play against if there's only a few teams?

 

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Angie Burnette, ?; Crystal Womble, NCCU; Shannon Brame, Peace. Don't know if these qualify, but they spent some formative time with the Challengers: Kelsey Eddinger, UNC-W; Katie Kisner, UNC-W; Amanda Davenport, UNC-W; Ashlee Crewe, Elon; Jamie Wellons, Charleston Southern; Brythe Blankenship, Furman?; Ariel Stout, Meredith; Meredith Phelps, ECU.

 

I'm old...have trouble remembering where I live..

let alone all these kids.........

I'll go sit in the corner now...

 

the best play the best

Short answer, each other and some out of state teams that want to get their kids exposure to this region's schools. We do have a bunch!

All together, there are somewhere around 8 to 12 organizations/teams in NC that field true showcase level (recruitable and/or draftable players) teams at the 17u level. 17u is the age that most coincides with players that will be seniors and will be "signable" during the upcoming fall early signing period, or draftable the next spring.

You won't see tournaments locally that have more than around 8 to 12 teams participating. This includes teams from up and down the East Coast.. This allows the recruiters and scouts to really get a good look at players over a weekend. This is the priority for these teams/tournaments.

Some of these teams will also play in the Perfect Game/World Wood Bat Tournaments at East Cobb Ga. in the summer and in FT Meyers Fla (16u) or Jupiter Fla (17u) in the fall. These tournaments are huge and draw the best teams from across the country. They also draw just about every college program as well as scouts, scouting directors and some GM's from all the MLB teams.

Obviously, I gave you the long answer too!