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Coaches Bill Sparrey and Pete Aguayo, who have won National Championships with some of the top club organizations in softball history and helped develop some of the biggest names in the sport, have announced they will be co-coaches of a new team called Sorcerer Old Skool to start this fall.
Both Sparrey and Aguayo have had coached in the Sorcerer organization in the past and will run a third 18U team in addition to those led by Mike & Jennifer Williams and Paulie Gabales, both of which qualified for PGF 18U Premier Nationals this summer.
The new coaches of Old Skool have been friends and even coached against each other for over 15 years.
Sparrey’s impressive history goes back to the San Jose Strikkers and later the Sorcerer program where he helped the late Phil Mumma win a third National Championship in 2009. More recently, Sparrey was on the field with the OC Batbusters in 2012-13, led by Gary Haning and assistants Dennis Frady and Dan Hay. and the So Cal A’s from 2013-18, led by Bruce Richardson with assistants Jess Martinson, Doug Meyers and Ken Briggs.
“It was truly a pleasure to be on both these great coaching staffs during my So Cal coaching career with memories that will last a lifetime,” Sparrey said this week.
Aguayo has had similar success, with a strong and storied career in the Sorcerer organization. The numbers speak for themselves: last year (2017), he had 19 players in the NCAA Tourney and during the 2018 NCAA season, Aguayo had 16 former players playing in the Pac-12 and another 23 on college teams through the country with 11 alumni in this year’s NCAA Tourney.
He has also coached seven players who competed on the 2017 USA National and Junior National Softball teams with three former players on the 2018 teams.
Together, the two coaches have produced over 150 players who have played NCAA college softball over the last two decades.
Says Aguayo, “Our coaching style is instructional, motivational and demanding. We offer our players a team culture and skill set that is second to none affording our players the tools required to reach the top of the travel ball game, NCAA and life’s accomplishments beyond.”
The team will hold tryouts August 11 and 12 in Martinez, California.
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Extra Inning Softball’s Brentt Eads caught up with the two coaches last Thursday to learn more about their past and future efforts… here’s what they had to say: