If you’ve ever tried to find a women’s softball instructor in Colorado, you’ll know what I’m saying is absolutely true. After weeks of searching numerous internet sites, softball blogs, and asking friends and family if they knew of a good women’s fastpitch softball instructor, we were lucky enough to get referred to Christina Gardner (the owner…yes the actual owner!) with Evolved Fastpitch to discuss scheduling some hitting, pitching, and fielding lessons for my 7 & 11 year old daughters (at the time). Christina immediately scheduled both of my daughters for a free evaluation lesson with one of her instructors (Perri Earnest). Within 15 minutes of our very first free lesson (yes I said free), I knew we had found our instructor. Let me also say that both of my girls had just decided to pick up softball 2 months earlier and played on a recreational team last fall (2020) for the very first time. It wasn’t until the short fall season was over that I realized what terrible habits both girls had developed. They both really enjoyed playing and that’s what mattered the most for their first experience with Fastpitch softball. Once our lessons with Perri started, I could see both girls beginning to develop the proper hitting, fielding and throwing techniques. If you think like I did, you probably assume that baseball and softball skill techniques are identical aside from pitching. Wrong! After 3 months of lessons with Perri and a Spring 2021 recreational season under her belt, my 12 year old had transformed from a complete beginner to trying out for and making a competitive team! The parents of my 7 year old were asking where she developed such a sweet swing so quickly! We told them both girls take lessons at Evolved Fastpitch and recommended they ask for Perri Earnest. We have been going to Evolved for less than a year and I can honestly say that both girls' skill sets have caught up to and surpassed most of the players on their teams in under a year. While I understand that every kid learns and develops at different rates, I can say that Evolved Fastpitch completely blew our expectations out of the water! We would recommend (and have) Evolved Fastpitch to softball players of any skill level looking to learn the proper SOFTBALL skills and techniques. I know you’ll be as happy as we are to have found Christina, Perri and the wonderful team of instructors at Evolved!

Lane Grady

Colorado