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At PGF Nationals this Summer, one of the most highly watched players was 2024 Extra Elite 100 pitcher Addisen Fisher, who wowed the college and club coaches who saw her shine in the PGF All-American Futures Game where she pitched two scoreless innings after helping lead her NW Bullets 18U team to a third place finish in the Premier division.
The Bend, Oregon-resident was ranked #5 in her class in last year’s 2024 Extra Elite 100 and she was a 1st Team Extra Inning Softball High School All-American this Summer after previously earning Gatorade State Player of the Year and 1st Team All-State honors.
For more on Addi, check out the feature we did earlier this year on her tited: Extra Star Power: 2024 Top-10 Ranked Pitcher Addisen Fisher With Her Stone-Cold Stares… “Go Ahead, Make Her Day!”
At PGF, we did an interview with Addi just moments after she competed in the All-Star Game and one of the subjects she covered was her “pitching barn” and working with aspiring pitchers as young as 10-years-old… here’s that video:
…. and here’s more on the “barn” that has become a place where Addi not only works out, she rocks out!
She told us earlier of how the building located right next to her house in Bend, Oregon came to be:
“After everything was shut down a second time during fall and winter of 2021-2022 due to COVID, we decided to build a hitting barn in our backyard,” Addisen recalls.
“My parents had talked about building one for a while, originally building it due to the winter weather we have where we live but then with COVID once again affecting indoor workouts at the time, they decided that it was as good as time as any. We built our hitting barn, and it’s been amazing to be able to walk 50 feet out my back door and have a facility to practice in.”
The structure, however, isn’t just for the junior star pitcher to use for workouts.
“I’ve also used it to give lessons,” Addi explains. “On top of that, if anyone needs a place to practice, I let them use it. One of the girls I give lessons to is actually on the Bullets 10U team that played at PGF. The girls I currently give lessons to are ages 9-to-14. Even though I’m taking a few weeks off from softball at the moment, I still plan on giving more lessons this month and going on through the off-season.”
Addisen has two more weeks of summer vacation before school begins on Sept. 8 and the athlete is savoring every free minute.
I’m soaking up all of the freedom I can get before Junior year!” the 5-foot-11 pitcher continues. “I’ve just been relaxing at home and taking some much needed time off from softball. My time off is going to end shortly, but I’m definitely enjoying doing nothing. I’m actually getting my wisdom teeth out this Friday, so I’m a little nervous. Other than that there’s nothing super exciting going on right now (except for the whole buildup to September 1st).”
And once that special date hits, when college coaches can reach out and contact her, Addi knows that she’ll be busy as many of the bluechip Power 5 schools in the nation are pursuing her heavily.
Still, now and even once the recruiting process begins in earnest, she can get away to the barn to work out and also express her artistic talents through music.
Sometimes I take my guitars into the building to play and have no one hear me,” she reveals. “Yes, I have two guitars: one is acoustic and one is electric and the electric guitar sounds amazing in there because the acoustics in the barn are great! “
— Brentt Eads, Extra Inning Softball