SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – After a profitable first 12 months that introduced a historic occasion to the house of the Little League Softball® World Collection, Athletes Limitless Professional Softball is ready to return to Greenville, N.C., for a second 12 months of enjoyable and pleasure with the 2024 AU Professional Video games, set to happen on August 6-7. Along with serving because the presenting sponsor of the fiftieth Anniversary of the Little League Softball World Collection, DICK’S Sporting Items has additionally been named because the presenting sponsor of the 2024 AU Professional Video games on the LLSWS, furthering their dedication to creating alternatives for women and girls in sports activities throughout the board.
“Coming off such a historic inaugural occasion in 2023, we’re so grateful that Athletes Limitless Professional Softball is coming again for a second 12 months as we be a part of collectively in celebration of the fiftieth Anniversary of our Little League Softball World Collection this August,” stated Ashlea Miller, Little League Director of Softball Improvement and Little League Softball World Collection Match Director. “Working along with an trade chief like Athletes Limitless to launch the AU Professional Video games has helped enhance the highlight on the sport of softball at each the youth {and professional} degree and has change into an expertise our World Collection members dream about experiencing in August. We look ahead to working with everybody at Athletes Limitless to convey this occasion to the subsequent degree this summer time and present the world how necessary the sport of softball really is.”
Together with the doubleheader set to happen between the Athletes Limitless Professional Softball athletes at East Carolina College’s softball stadium on August 7, beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET and airing on ESPNU, all 60 of AU’s rostered skilled softball gamers and employees will as soon as once more spend the day on Tuesday, August 6, interacting with LLSWS members and supply a day crammed with enjoyable, recollections, and celebration.
“This occasion was really top-of-the-line issues we’ve ever performed at Athletes Limitless and a lifetime spotlight for everybody concerned, so we’re thrilled to as soon as once more associate with Little League and return to the Little League Softball World Collection for its fiftieth Anniversary, and are grateful to DICK’S Sporting Items for its help of such an necessary occasion,” stated Cheri Kempf, Senior Vice President and Director of Softball for Athletes Limitless. “The AU Professional Video games on the Little League Softball World Collection offers an unparalleled alternative for the subsequent technology of younger softball gamers and neighborhood leaders to rise up shut and private with their function fashions whereas experiencing the most effective athletes on this planet competing on the highest degree.”
The inaugural occasion in 2023 noticed a wide range of memorable moments, together with historical past being made with rookie Kathryn Sandercock’s mother and father, Colin and Trish, being named because the 2023 George and Barbara Bush Little League Dad and mom of the 12 months, marking the primary time that Little League Softball mother and father acquired the award. The 2013 LLSWS graduate from McClean (Va.)
Little League and her household have been honored with the award and a customized portray previous to one of many Little League Softball World Collection video games along with her Athletes Limitless Professional Softball teammates in attendance.
“We’re excited to be the presenting sponsor of the Little League Softball World Collection and to enter into this new partnership with AU Professional Video games”, stated Mark Rooks, VP of Artistic, Sponsorships and Leisure at DICK’S Sporting Items. “We consider sports activities have the ability to vary lives and are honored to play a task in serving to develop the sport for women at some of the thrilling softball occasions of the 12 months.”
“Getting the chance to work together with the Little Leaguers, watch them compete, after which have them at our video games was an unforgettable expertise and we’re thrilled to be again this summer time,” stated Sam Fischer, Chair of the AU Professional Softball Participant Govt Committee. “The possibility to encourage the subsequent technology of softball gamers and neighborhood leaders is one thing none of us take without any consideration.”
The AU Professional Video games are simply one of many many ways in which Little League and Athletes Limitless have continued to work collectively as leaders within the trade to develop the way forward for the sport of softball and supply alternatives to generations of ladies all all over the world. Because of the help of Athletes Limitless by occasions like this, and different efforts surrounding the Women with Recreation initiative, Little League Softball has seen an enhance in participation of roughly 8% since 2018 and continues to offer extra assets and help to proceed this development by occasions like this.
The 2024 Little League Softball World Collection, Introduced by DICK’S Sporting Items, is ready to happen on August 4-11, 2024, with all video games performed at Stalling Stadium at Elm Avenue Park in Greenville, N.C. Further details about the 2024 AU Professional Video games on the Little League Softball World Collection will probably be shared in the course of the coming months and made out there at LittleLeague.org/AthletesUnlimited.
The announcement of the 2024 occasion is one more piece of the Little League’s year-long Women with Recreation 50 Celebration in 2024, honoring 50 years or women and girls within the Little League program and the launch of the Little League Softball program in 1974. To study extra in regards to the Little League #GWG50 Celebration, together with the fiftieth Anniversary of the Little League Softball World Collection, go to LittleLeague.org/GWG50. The #GWG50 celebration is proudly supported by DICK’S Sporting Items, a long-time Little League associate that’s dedicated to creating alternatives for women and girls in sports activities and will probably be activating round key occasions and milestones this 12 months.
About Athletes Limitless ®
Named considered one of Quick Firm’s Most Progressive Firms in 2023, Athletes Limitless is a brand new mannequin of professional sports activities, the place athletes are decision-makers and particular person gamers are champions of workforce sports activities. Athletes Limitless owns and operates skilled ladies’s softball, lacrosse, volleyball and basketball leagues that includes world-class competitors and fan expertise, and stands out as a corporation pushed by the athletes that play within the leagues, with athlete illustration on the corporate’s board of administrators, every league led by a Participant Govt Committee, and gamers sharing in long-term earnings of the corporate, all whereas being proactive in shaping insurance policies supporting the moms that play within the league. Athletes Limitless is the primary skilled sports activities league to be organized as a Public Profit Company. For extra info, go to AUProSports.com.
About Little League®
Based in 1939, Little League® is the world’s largest organized youth sports activities program, with roughly two million gamers (ages 4-16) taking part in baseball and softball in communities throughout each U.S. state and greater than 80 different nations. Operated by multiple million volunteers, Little League believes within the energy of youth baseball and softball to show life classes that construct stronger people and communities. From skilled athletes and award-winning celebrities, to public officers and different influential members of society, Little League graduates have taken the teachings they realized, each on and off the sphere, to create the subsequent chapter of the Little League story. Annually, hundreds of thousands of individuals observe the onerous work, dedication, and sportsmanship that Little Leaguers® show at our seven baseball and softball World Collection occasions, the premier tournaments in youth sports activities. For extra info, go to LittleLeague.org, and observe Little League (@LittleLeague) on Fb, X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. After we all come collectively, we’re really One Group. One Little League.
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