Outside The Chute

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former Halifax Jaguar and owner of Prodigy Sports, Sheet Harbour native, Jeff Cameron. Jeff had an extensive playing career which spanned almost 20 years, seeing him get his start in his home town of Sheet Harbour, and then getting the chance to play in countries all over the world like New Zealand, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.  Jeff was also a...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Aussie Olympian and current University of Washington Husky pitcher, Gabbie Plain. Gabbie is only 23 years old and has already had enough awards and accolades many would be proud of for an entire career.  She is a 3 time All Pac-12 First Team winner, two time First Team All-American, the 2021 Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year and USA Softball Collegiate Player o...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Brown University alum and Canadian Olympic Bronze medalist, Janet Leung. Janet has had a fantastic career to date and is still going strong.  She got her start with the Canadian Junior National Team before heading to Brown University for 4 years where she would start in all 151 career games.  From there, Janet would join the Canadian Women’s National Tea...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with the host of the show, Randy Frame. Hopey takes over hosting duties and we get to hear about Framer's time in the game, as well as, anything and everything in between.  Lots of laughs were had on this episode.  We hope you all enjoy!

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former Aussie Steeler and current New York Gremlin, Australia native, Zenon Winters. Zenon has had a decorated career to date as he has won 4 ISC World Titles, 6 Australian National Titles, been named to 4 ISC All World Teams, a 2 time ASA MVP and a 2009 ISF World Title with the Aussie Steelers, just to name a few. We’re gonna talk to Zenon about getting...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with University of Hawaii at Manoa alum and Australian Olympian, Kaia Parnaby. Kaia has had a tremendous career to date as she was named an NFCA All American in 2013 while at the University of Hawaii, while also taking home Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year.  She also, set school and Big West records for wins and strikeouts in a season that same year. ...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former US Men’s National Team head coach and current New York Gremlins head coach, Gregg Leather. Gregg has had a fantastic coaching career to date as he has won 6 ASA National Titles, 2 ISC World Titles and a Pan Am Silver, just to name a few. We’re gonna talk to Gregg about how he got his start in the game, his transition from modified to Fastpitch, th...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with 5 time ISC World Champion, 10 time ISC All World selection and ISC Hall of Famer, Shawn Rychcik. Shawn had an amazing 23 year playing career in the game which included an eight year stint on the USA Men’s National Team, producing a gold medal, 2 silver medals, and a bronze medal. He was twice named United States Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year in M...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with University of Michigan alum, and current Japan Pro league Toda Medics member, Jordan Taylor. Jordan has had a stellar career to date as she was named the 2008 Big Ten Freshman Player of the Year, 2010 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year, is a three time All-Big Ten Conference First Team winner, while also being the All time career strikeout leader in the Big Ten...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Oakland University Alum, Olympic Bronze Medalist and Brantford's own, Erika Polidori.   Erika had a standout 4 years at Oakland University in Michigan where she would go on to finish fourth or better in 10 career offensive catagories and be named to the All-Horizon First Team in her Senior season in 2014.  She would then go on to win a 2015 Pan Am Gold M...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Canadian Men’s National Team member and Gould’s, Newfoundland native, Shane Boland. Shane has had an incredible career to date and he’s still adding to that impressive resume.  He has won 3 ISC World Titles, 7 Canadian Senior Men’s Championships, 2 Canadian Junior Men’s Championships, a bronze at the 2017 WBSC World’s, as well as, many individual awards,...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Co-Editor at D1Softball.com and UCLA Golden Bears alum, Tara Henry. Tara had a fantastic college career with UCLA as she would compete at three Women’s College World Series, between 2004-2006, winning the prestigious championship in her freshman season.  Since then she has co-founded an organization called Run The Bases where they focus on inclusion and...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former USA Softball Junior National Team member and current Assistant Coach with the Ole Miss Rebels, Ryker Chason. Ryker got his start in the game in an unusual way, as he went online, filled out a form and tried out for the US Men’s National Junior Team.  He would go on to compete at the 2014 and 2016 WBSC Championships, before finding his calling and...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with California Golden Bears alum, Athlete’s Unlimited athlete and Hawaiian native, Kamalani Dung. Kama has had a fantastic career to date as she won 2017 All Mountain West first team honors, to go along with Mountain West Pitcher of the Year that same season while attending Fresno State and then going on to be named to the All-Pac-12 second team and NFCA All...

With this being the one year anniversary show, its only fitting that we bring back our first ever guest, East Hants Mastodons ace, and current 40 Man Team Canada Member, Justin Schofield. This was a fun one for us as we got to talk about the last year for Outside The Chute, stories we forgot to chat about with Schof in that first ever episode, and trust me, there are some funny ones, and we also h...

Outside The Chute sat down with Arizona Sun Devils Alum and Athlete’s Unlimited member, San Diego’s own, Morgan Howe. Morgan has had a remarkable career to date, as she would be named to the 2017 NFCA All-Pacific Region 2nd Team and All-Mountain Team at Fresno State before transferring to Arizona State, where she go on to be named a, Pac-12 and NFCA All-Region First Team, a First Team All-American...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with 4 time ISC All World selection and 3 time ISC World Champion, Rob Schweyer. Rob has had an amazing career to date spanning all the way back to the early 90’s, and he’s still going strong today, most recently winning an ASA Championship last year in OKC. We’re going to talk to Rob about getting his start in the game in Ontario, what it was like juggling b...

Outside The Chute sat down with Washington Huskies Alum and co-founder of The Packaged Deal, Morgan Stuart. Morgan had a fantastic 4 years at the University of Washington, where she would have three, honorable mention All-Pac 10 honors, a first team All Academic Pac-10 and be named to the Women’s College World Series All Tournament Team after her and the Huskies captured the National title in 2009...

Outside The Chute sat down with a legend from our parts.  He’s a 4 time All-Canadian, 10 time Mainland Fastball Batting Champion, former goaltender with the California Golden Seals in the NHL and Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Famer, Lyle Carter. We’re gonna talk to Lyle about getting his start in the game back in the day in the village of Brookfield, competing at the 1969 Canada Games in Halifax, what...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Washington Huskies Alum and Canadian National Team member, Jenn Salling. Jenn has had an amazing career to date as she was the 2007 Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year, competed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, won a NCAA National Championship in 2009 with the Washington Huskies, as well as, a 2015 Pan Am Games gold on home soil with Team Canada just to name a f...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Vice President of Communications and Operations for the ISC, Play by Play announcer with Ballpark Broadcasting and coach with the 2016 ISC World Champion Toronto Gators, Blair Setford. Blair is well known in Men’s Fastpitch circles with his work with the International Softball Congress over the years, his fantastic calls on Ballpark Broadcasting which ha...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Purdue University alum, former Dallas Charge pro and host of “When The Cleats Come Off”, Ashley Burkhardt. Ash had a stellar four years at Purdue, where she earned three straight All-Region honors from the National Fastpitch Coaches' Association (NFCA). She was also a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and garnered first-team All-Big Ten accolades i...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former Team Canada National Team member and St John’s, NL native, Rob O’Brien. OB had a fantastic career that spanned almost 20 years.  He’s a 4 time ISC All World selection, 3 time, Canadian Nationals MVP, 6 time ASA Champion, 8 time Canadian National Champ, as well as, an ISC World Title in 2010. We’re gonna talk to Rob about getting his start growing...

Outside The Chute sat down we Alabama Crimson Tide Alum and Marketing and Promotions Manager for Mizuno Fastpitch USA, Leah Majeski. Leah had a great four years with Alabama where she would be a four time Academic All-SEC and make two trips to the Women’s College World Series in 2003 and 2005.  From there she would spend a few years with the Softball Factory before moving into her current roll wit...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with US Men’s National Team member and Las Vegas, Nevada native, Yusef Davis Jr. Yuse is another one of those Baseball players that has made the transition to Fastpitch and has had tremendous success so far in doing so.  He’s already made his way onto the US Men’s National team, captured a silver medal at the 2019 Pan Am Games and been named to an ISC All Wor...