“When I got into softball in 2006, it was easy to replicate it. I soon learned that with database player fields and records it was easy to add what colleges they were committed to along with their basic info of team, grad year, position, etc. “I was in charge of databases then,” he remembers “and it was more for tracking players at events. The two are seen at last year’s Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.Įads started compiling verbals first in football in 2005 when working at Student Sports Inc, a high school-oriented company based in Torrance, California, that became notable for producing events like the Nike Football Training Camps and the Elite 11 QB Camps televised annually on ESPN.

Brentt Eads, with Jenna Lilley who was in his his first year of collecting verbals–the Class of 2014. When it comes to covering recruiting, the most basic feature is a list of who’s going where-something our own President & Executive Editor, Brentt Eads-started seven years ago and followed since the Class of 2014 when he first started doing player and team rankings (Jenna Lilley of Oregon was his first #1 ranked player, in case you’re interested!).

Here’s our first posting of the Extra Inning Softball Signing/Verbal List (2018-2024 recruits)… starting tomorrow (Wednesday), it will be a searchable database! Macy Simmons, an All-American catcher from Arizona, is committed to Arizona State.

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