Player Interviews Episodes

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 Title. Deano would also represent Canada where he won a silver and bronze at the ISF World Championsh...

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, won back to back ISC World Titles in 81 and 82 with the Camarillo Kings, led Team Canada to an ISF...

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 times, along with 3 top batter awards, 2 round robin MVP’s and a playoff MVP at the Canadian Senior M...

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 in the next Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

We’re gonna talk to Kaleigh about all of these things a...

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 successful junior career, being named to Team Canada, having his brother Shane walk it off to win th...

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 countless school records. In her Senior year she led the entire NCAA in batting average (.568), slug...

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 would think as well as moving on to the Canadian National Team and that feeling of qualifying for the...

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 Canadian Senior Men’s MVP’s and Top Batter awards, playoff MVP and 5 All Canadian Selections.

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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 Team player at the ISC’s along with 3 MVP awards. In 2015 he was voted best player in the world by hi...

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 also in the province of Nova Scotia, growing up in the East Hants Minor Ball system, and playing at th...

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 against the Halifax Keiths and the Kitchener River Shark Twins back in the day, as well as an in dep...

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 and also provides with the story of why Softball Canada umpires voted him the biggest offender of go...

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 and having success at the ISC with Toronto Gators and Hill United Chiefs and Canadian Senior level pla...