Syndey Prigge .
"Earns High School Varsity Role"
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2011
HS Fastpitch Season Tryouts
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The dream of one day making any varsity sport as a freshman can be a dream come true for most. When it comes to extreme conditioning and skill-sets, it's Baseball, Football, and Basketball, and Fastpitch: is where all or nothing conditioning, skill-sets, and grueling practices are what seperates varsity players from junior varsity players as a freshman athlete. "I think Sydney put everything together: hard work, desire, and the love for fastpitch softball going into varsity tryouts this season."
-dad,assistant pitching coach, Jeff Prigge
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"Three years ago I was almost wondering if Sydney should focus on another sport than fastpitch. With no real experience, pitching coaching, and athletic training, I took a chance on Sydney by giving all I have ever known about conditioning and training someone with "no-skills" because she really struggled with proper pitching and hitting mechanics for a long time. Keep in mind she was only 12 years old. I am known in Washington for being one of the most disciplined pitching and hitting coaches. My beginning pitching camp is for everyone. My advanced fastpitch program is for special people. You bring your daughter to me to learn about pitching, I will gladly teach her all the fundamentals to have fun with it. You bring your daughter to me and say her dream is to make the Olympics in fastpitch, well, that is different. You're now talking my language because I know personally what it takes to prepare fastpitch players for high school and college preparation. My experience helps as competitor in Olympic sports as a former competitive weightlifter and wrestler while in the Marines. After spending 10 years studying and practicing the art of pitching from the best in the world I feel I have an advantage of other coaches. At LFA we use intelligent pitching training and hard work. Sydney opened my eyes as a coach and challenged me for three years to help her accomplish her dream of making varsity fastpitch for her high school team. Now my job is done and Sydney's just began." -coach Adam
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"Hard Times"
2008-2011
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All the drills you can think of, discipline training, and workouts that would make a college freshman "puke" is what I gave to Sydney and other varsity scholar athletes. At times her mother whiped away tears but would not challenge me. Her dad Jeff bought-in-to the system after seeing what I did with scholar athletes: Alexa Derrick, Shay Naranjo, Kelli Bornander, and varsity "long-shot" Kendall Walker. All these athletes paid the price of hard grueling work-outs and my "Never-Give-Up" focus mentality. These athletes paved the way for people like Sydney with hard-work, guts, sweat and tears. I mention in my Face book profile, "Athletes Inspire Me" because they just work harder than other people in school, at home, and on the ball field. It was Seattle University recruit, Kendall Walker, who worked harder in 6 months than anyone I have ever trained at LFA all while maintaining straight "A's" in honors classes who inspired me to go back to college and finish my business degree.
Being inspired can come from many sources. What is important is you follow through on your goals. Now I can say, I love getting straight "A's" too thanks to Kendall and a sport I love. Hard work is easy when you focus on your goal 100%."
- coach Adam
