Outside The Chute

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with Canadian Women's National Team member and former University of Washington standout, Victoria Hayward. Vic is a 4 time All-Pac-12 Conference winner, 2014 All American, Winner of the 2019 National Pro Fastpitch League, Jennie Finch Award and most recently finished 3rd overall in the points standings in the inaugural season of the Athletes Unlimited League....

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with former Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia native, now Grand Forks, North Dakota native and ISC Hall of Famer, Gerald Muizelaar. Muizey is an 8 time ISC All World selection, 3 time ISC Most Outstanding Pitcher, has 3 ISC World Titles and a Canadian Senior Men’s National Title in 1998 just to name a few. We’re going to talk to Gerald about getting his start in Shube...

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with former Arizona Wildcat pitching star, Espy Award winner and current Arizona Assistant Coach, Taryne Mowatt-McKinney. Taryne’s list of accompishments at U of A are extensive as she holds or shares 8 school pitching records, including wins, innings pitched and strikeouts in a season.  She helped the Wildcats to back to back National Championships in 2006 an...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks with Nanaimo, BC native and Team Canada Member, Blake Hunter. Blake has emerged into one of the best hitter’s in the country.  He is a 3 time All Canadian, was named to the 2017 All World Team at the ISC, won a silver medal at the 2005 Canada Games, and a 2 time silver medalist at the Canadian Senior Men’s Nationals. We’re gonna talk to Blake about getting his...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks with former Team Canada member and PEI Native, Jeff Ellsworth. Ellsy has a long list of accomplishments in the game which include 5 ISC World Titles, 2 Canadian Senior Men’s Titles, 3 Time ASA Champion, an ISF Champion in 2015, 6 time All Canadian, 5 Time All World Team, and an ISC World Tournament MVP, just to name a few. We’re going to talk to Ellsy about ge...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks with former Syracuse University star and Team Canada Member, Jenna Caira. Jenna had a tremendous career at Syracuse University where she holds 11 pitching records, was the first to have over a 1000 strikeouts and was named Big East Pitcher of the Year in 2011.  From there Jenna would go on and continue to have a fantastic career with the Canadian Women’s Natio...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks with Bracebridge, Ontario native and ISC Hall of Famer, Todd Martin. Marty’s list of accomplishments in the game are astounding as he has won 6 ISC World Titles, 5 Canadian Senior Men’s Nationals, he has been named to the ISC All World team nine times, and a three time outstanding pitcher at the ISC’s just to name a few. We’re gonna talk to Marty on getting hi...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks with Melfort, Sask native and ISC Hall of Famer, Dean Holoien. Deano has a long list of accomplishments that started back in Bantam, when the Melfort 222’s would win the Bantam, Midget and Junior Nationals.  From there Dean would go on to have a storied career that would include 4 Canadian Senior Men’s National Titles, 2 ASA National Titles, and an ISC World T...

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with Canadian Women's National Team Head Coach, Mark Smith. Mark is an absolute legend when it comes to the game of Fastpitch and he is inducted into the Softball Canada Hall of Fame, ISC Hall of Fame and the Sport Nova Scotia Hall of Fame. Mark’s accomplishments are extensive.  He was the first player to ever throw a no hitter in Pan Am Games history in 1979,...

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with former Canadian Men's National Team member and Freshwater, NL native, Steve Mullaley. Steve has an incredible list of accomplishments over his career, which includes 9 Canadian Senior Men’s Titles, 6 ASA Championships, 5 ISC World Titles, a ISF World Championship and Pan Am Gold Medal to name a few.  Lolly has also been named to the ISC All World team 6 t...

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with Canadian Olympian, Kaleigh Rafter. Kaleigh has had an amazing career to date, setting school records at University of Detroit, competing at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, transferring to Florida State University for a final season and leading the team in homeruns and RBI’s and she’s still going strong after hitting the homerun to secure Canada a spot...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks to Team Canada member and Goulds, Newfoundland native, Ryan Boland. Ryan has had an amazing career to date winning 7 Canadian Senior Men's Championships, 2 ISC World Titles, 2 Canadian Junior Men's Championships, an ISF World Title and a PanAm Games Gold medal. We’re gonna talk to Boley about growing up in Gould’s and getting his start in the game, having a su...

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with former Canadian Olympian, Georgia Tech star and North Delta, BC native, Jen Yee. Jen had an amazing career both in the NCAA and on the International stage.  With the Canadian National Team she was the teams leading hitter at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and also was a member of the Gold medal winning squad in 2015. With Georgia Tech, Jen would go on to set c...

Outside The Chute sits down and chats with current Canadian Olympic Team member, former Kent State University star and Surrey, BC native, Holly Speers.   We’re gonna talk to Holly about growing up in the Delta Heat program, being the youngest member on the Canadian Junior National Team, starring with Kent State University where she once hit 5 homeruns in 5 consecutive at bats, but not the way you...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks to Team Canada member and St John's, Newfoundland native, Jason Hill. Jason has won 5 ISC titles, which includes one with The Farm in 2007 and then another 4 with powerhouse Hill United Chiefs, and an amazing 7 of the last 8 Canadian Senior Men’s Championships. His list of personal accomplishments are plenty as he’s been named to 3 ISC All World Teams, 2 Canad...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks to Lismore, Australia native, and one of the best to ever play the game of fastpitch, Nick Shailes.   Shailsy has a list of accomplishments that would take forever to mention but some key ones would include a 5 time ISC World Champion, ISF Men’s World Champion with Australia in 2009 and Canadian Senior Men’s Championship in 2017.  He’s also a 10-time All-World...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks to Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia native, former East Hants Mastodon and current Assistant Coach of the Cape Breton Eagles of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Matt Anthony. We're going to talk to Matt about being pretty much born into the game, with his father Terry and Grandfather Carl, being prominent softball figures not only in the local community but als...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks to Lantz, Nova Scotia native, co-host of Outside The Chute and Head Coach of the 2017 Canadian Senior Men's National Champion, East Hants Mastodons. Chris will tell us about his early days of playing days with the original East Hants Mastodons before moving on to play close to ten season with the Brookfield Elks.  We'll relive some big games that the Elks had...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks to Stonewall, Manitoba native, and former Team Canada 40 Man roster player, Brady Woods. We sit down and talk to Brady about starting the game in Stonewall, moving on to junior to play with the Saskatoon Diamondbacks and his time at the ISC level with the Kegel Black Knights.  Brady talks about being on the Team Canada 40 man roster on two different occasions...

Outside The Chute sits down and talks to Grand Pre, Nova Scotia native, and Team Canada 40 Man roster player, Justin Schofield.  We talk about starting out in the West Hants minor ball system, playing as a 16 year old with the Berwick Eassons Intermediate Men's team, winning a Canadian Junior Men's Championship with the Murphy's Fish & Chip Eagles in 2011 and finally moving on to the men's game an...