The Outside The Chute Podcast

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with 3 time ISF World Champion and Softball New Zealand Hall of Famer, Marty Grant

Marty had an absolute amazing career. As I just said, he won 3 ISF World Championships with the New Zealand Black Sox in 1996, 2000 and 2004, with the one in 2000 coming from a No-Hitter in the finals from Marty. He is a 3 time ISC All World selection and also captured the 1996 ISC World Title with the Tampa Bay Smokers. For all he accomplished in his career Marty was induct...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with University of Georgia Alum, and current Assistant Coach at Hofstra University, Kristyn Sandberg.

Kristyn has had a fantastic career as she spent her undergraduate career at the University of Georgia and was named a second-team NFCA All-American after garnering first-team All-Region honors. She played a key role in leading the Bulldogs to the Women's College World Series in 2009 and 2010 while earning SEC All-Freshmen Team honors in 2009 and First Team...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with University of Wisconsin alum and Canadian Olympic Bronze Medalist, Kelsey Harshman.

Kelsey has had a fantastic career to date. She played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin, helping the Badgers to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2017 and 2018. She started in every single game throughout her four years, setting school records in all-time runs (180), on base percentage (.527), and consecutive games on base (40). She was the first fr...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with the creator of Fastpitch the Movie himself, Jeremy Spear.

Jeremy got into the game of Fastpitch after playing Baseball growing up, which included 4 years at Yale where he would play Division I with the Bulldogs. Later on down the road after spending time on the New York Art scene, the competitive juices for sport were missing and he jumped into the game full force and decided to document that journey which resulted in the creation of what we all know ...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former Ashland Merchant and one of the star’s from Fastpitch The Movie, New Zealand native, Shane Hunuhunu.

Shane was a force on the ISC circuit back in the 90’s while playing with Ashland, Ohio, terrorizing opposing pitchers with his heavy bat. He was selected to the ISC All World Team back in 1992 in his very first ISC World Tournament. Huny also captured the 1989 ISF World Junior Title in Summerside, PEI while competing with New Zealand.

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Outside The Chute we sat down and chatted with former USA Men’s National Team member and recently inducted ASA/USA Softball of PA Hall of Famer, Bill Hillhouse.

Billy has had a fantastic career, playing all over the world. He spent 8 season playing down in New Zealand, one in Australia and numerous back home in the US. In 1993 he became the youngest pitcher to play on the US Men’s National Team and proceeded to win the Most Valuable Pitcher award at the Pan Am Tournament that same season. Durin...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with San Jose State alum and Canadian Olympic Bronze medalist, Emma Entzminger.

Emma has had a fantastic career to date. She played four seasons (2014-18) with the Spartans while studying at San Jose State University, starting in 191 of her 207 games played over that span. Over her career with the Spartans she had a .287 batting average, .434 OBP, 17 doubles, three triples, four home runs and 70 RBIs. She finished at SJSU ranked third all-time in runs scor...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Assistant Coach of both the New York Gremlins and US Men’s National Team, the legendary, Nick McCurry.

Nick has been known in this game for almost 50 years and brings a love and dedication to it that is unmatched. He would start the Ashland Merchants E.S.S. team back in 1981 and became one of the best low budget teams in the US. Nick had the daunting tasks of running everything from fielding the team to getting the funds to provide the opportunity for...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Ball State University alum and Canadian Olympic Bronze Medalist, Jen Gilbert.

Jen has had an amazing career as she has been with the Canadian National Team program dating back to the U16 National Team in 2009. She has won a Pan Am Games silver in 2019 and, of course, an Olympic Bronze this past summer in Tokyo. At Ball State, she helped guide the Cardinals to three Mid-American Conference regular season championships (2012-14). She holds nearly all of...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former Halifax Jaguar and owner of Prodigy Sports, Sheet Harbour native, Jeff Cameron.

Jeff had an extensive playing career which spanned almost 20 years, seeing him get his start in his home town of Sheet Harbour, and then getting the chance to play in countries all over the world like New Zealand, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Jeff was also a key part of the 1998 Halifax Jaguars that would win the Canadian Men’s Senior National Championship ...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Aussie Olympian and current University of Washington Husky pitcher, Gabbie Plain.

Gabbie is only 23 years old and has already had enough awards and accolades many would be proud of for an entire career. She is a 3 time All Pac-12 First Team winner, two time First Team All-American, the 2021 Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year and USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 3 Finalist, just to name a few.

We’re gonna talk to Gabbie about getting her start i...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Brown University alum and Canadian Olympic Bronze medalist, Janet Leung.

Janet has had a fantastic career to date and is still going strong. She got her start with the Canadian Junior National Team before heading to Brown University for 4 years where she would start in all 151 career games. From there, Janet would join the Canadian Women’s National Team where she has captured a 2018 WBSC Bronze medal, a 2019 Pan Am Silver and most recently an Olympic ...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with the host of the show, Randy Frame.

Hopey takes over hosting duties and we get to hear about Framer's time in the game, as well as, anything and everything in between. Lots of laughs were had on this episode. We hope you all enjoy!

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former Aussie Steeler and current New York Gremlin, Australia native, Zenon Winters.

Zenon has had a decorated career to date as he has won 4 ISC World Titles, 6 Australian National Titles, been named to 4 ISC All World Teams, a 2 time ASA MVP and a 2009 ISF World Title with the Aussie Steelers, just to name a few.

We’re gonna talk to Zenon about getting his start in the game down under, his time with the Australian Junior Team which resulted in a Wo...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with University of Hawaii at Manoa alum and Australian Olympian, Kaia Parnaby.

Kaia has had a tremendous career to date as she was named an NFCA All American in 2013 while at the University of Hawaii, while also taking home Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year. She also, set school and Big West records for wins and strikeouts in a season that same year. Kaia has thrived in her time playing pro over in Japan with the SGH Galaxy Stars recording over 500 c...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former US Men’s National Team head coach and current New York Gremlins head coach, Gregg Leather.

Gregg has had a fantastic coaching career to date as he has won 6 ASA National Titles, 2 ISC World Titles and a Pan Am Silver, just to name a few.

We’re gonna talk to Gregg about how he got his start in the game, his transition from modified to Fastpitch, the formation of the New York Gremlins, of course his time with the US National Team and much, much ...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with 5 time ISC World Champion, 10 time ISC All World selection and ISC Hall of Famer, Shawn Rychcik.

Shawn had an amazing 23 year playing career in the game which included an eight year stint on the USA Men’s National Team, producing a gold medal, 2 silver medals, and a bronze medal. He was twice named United States Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year in Men’s Softball. He was able to walk away with 2 ASA National Championships, an MVP and 8 All-America...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with University of Michigan alum, and current Japan Pro league Toda Medics member, Jordan Taylor.

Jordan has had a stellar career to date as she was named the 2008 Big Ten Freshman Player of the Year, 2010 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year, is a three time All-Big Ten Conference First Team winner, while also being the All time career strikeout leader in the Big Ten.

We’re gonna talk to Jordan about getting her start in the game down in California, her amazing h...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Oakland University Alum, Olympic Bronze Medalist and Brantford's own, Erika Polidori.

Erika had a standout 4 years at Oakland University in Michigan where she would go on to finish fourth or better in 10 career offensive catagories and be named to the All-Horizon First Team in her Senior season in 2014. She would then go on to win a 2015 Pan Am Gold Medal on home soil in Toronto while leading her team in average and then just a few week’s ago help lea...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Canadian Men’s National Team member and Gould’s, Newfoundland native, Shane Boland.

Shane has had an incredible career to date and he’s still adding to that impressive resume. He has won 3 ISC World Titles, 7 Canadian Senior Men’s Championships, 2 Canadian Junior Men’s Championships, a bronze at the 2017 WBSC World’s, as well as, many individual awards, including being the only Canadian player to ever win the ISC’s, Senior Men’s and Junior Men’s title...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with Co-Editor at D1Softball.com and UCLA Golden Bears alum, Tara Henry.

Tara had a fantastic college career with UCLA as she would compete at three Women’s College World Series, between 2004-2006, winning the prestigious championship in her freshman season. Since then she has co-founded an organization called Run The Bases where they focus on inclusion and gender equality through softball, as well as, she is a co-editor for D1Softball.com.

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Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with former USA Softball Junior National Team member and current Assistant Coach with the Ole Miss Rebels, Ryker Chason.

Ryker got his start in the game in an unusual way, as he went online, filled out a form and tried out for the US Men’s National Junior Team. He would go on to compete at the 2014 and 2016 WBSC Championships, before finding his calling and turn his attention to coaching. He would get his start with South Georgia State before enrolling at ...

Outside The Chute sat down and chatted with California Golden Bears alum, Athlete’s Unlimited athlete and Hawaiian native, Kamalani Dung.

Kama has had a fantastic career to date as she won 2017 All Mountain West first team honors, to go along with Mountain West Pitcher of the Year that same season while attending Fresno State and then going on to be named to the All-Pac-12 second team and NFCA All-Region third team while playing with the California Golden Bears in 2019. She also played in the i...

With this being the one year anniversary show, its only fitting that we bring back our first ever guest, East Hants Mastodons ace, and current 40 Man Team Canada Member, Justin Schofield.

This was a fun one for us as we got to talk about the last year for Outside The Chute, stories we forgot to chat about with Schof in that first ever episode, and trust me, there are some funny ones, and we also had special guest appearances from past OTC guests, Brady Woods and Steve Mullaley.

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