Candrea is sought out by softball and baseball coaches around the country and has delivered instructional clinics throughout the nation, including participating as an NFCC instructor. He is particularly known for hitting techniques, team fielding drills and squad motivaional preparation. In recent years, he has consulted with major league baseball stars and other learned technicians to conduct national hitting clinics, and he participates in dozens of such sessions to help improve the way softball is taught and played. He was inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in 1996.

Susan Craig

Susan Craig retired as the 14th winningest coach in NCAA Division I history after she led New Mexico in the 2002 season. In 17 different seasons, she coached her alma mater to national rankings. Craig won 673 games in her career, and was the 1999 WAC Coach of the Year.

Craig has authored a pair of books on softball strategy. "The Softball Handbook" is used as a standard tool for teaching fundamentals.

She is currently president of a company called Athletic Advantage, which focuses on speed and agility and specializes in improving athletic movement. Softball clinics and fastpitch lessons are available upon request.

Craig is also a former president of the NFCA.

Chuck D'Arcy

An assistant coach for the silver medal-winning U.S. Olympic Team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chuck D'Arcy is the first and only person to win a World Championship in both the men's and women's World Championships. He won as a player at the 1980 Men's World Championships and as a coach at the 2006 Women's event.

D'Arcy has served in many assistant coaching capacities for USA Softball, including the 2002 Junior Women's National Team that won Pan Am gold in Jermosillo, Mexico and the 2003 Junior Women's National Team that won silver at the ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Nanjing, China.

Named as an assistant coach for the 2005-08 squad for the USA Softball Women's National Team, D'Arcy was part of the staff that led the U.S. to its first World Cup title in Oklahoma City in 2006 and helped guide Team USA to its sixth consecutive gold medal at this year's ISF Women's World Championships and a Japan Cup gold medal. 

A unanimous selection into the ASA National Softball Hall of Fame in 1997, D'Arcy posted a perfect 6-0 record in international competition as a pitcher and participated in 21 ASA Men's Major national championships as well as eight Olympic Festivals. A member of the 1981 World Games gold medalists for Team USA, he was a six-time All-American with a career record of 1,092-250 for a winning percentage of .813 to go along with a 30-year career ERA of 0.85.

Carie Dever-Boaz

Carie Dever-Boaz served as the head coach of National Pro Fastpitch's Washington Glory until the franchise folded and subsequently relocated following the 2008 season. Dever-Boaz went to the nation's capital in 2007 after spending the previous two years as an Assistant Coach at the University of Virginia where she coached under UVA head coach and USA Olympic Team coach Karen Johns. In just her first season with the Glory, she was named the NPF's Coach of the Year.

She spent the 2005 softball season as the Gator's offensive and fielder's coach at University of Florida.  Other career highlights include coaching at University of South Carolina under Joyce Compton from 1993-1995.  Prior to that, she served as the leader and head coach of the softball program for eight years at Arkansas. While there she compiled five Southeastern Conference Tournament appearances and two NCAA Regional Berths.

In 1999, she was named Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year after leading the Razorbacks to a 46-29 record, and a runner-up finish in the conference tournament.  While occupying the head coaching position, she coached eight All-SEC players, one All-Region performer and two NCAA Regional All-Tournament players.

Dever-Boaz conducts international softball clinics in Holland for coaches as well as players. She has appeared as a feature speaker and instructor for various well-known clinics throughout the world. In addition, Dever-Boaz authored the book "The Art of Pitching" as well as five instructional softball videos.

Sharon Drysdale

Sharon Drysdale, former director of the National Fastpitch Coaches College, has been a driving force behind the NFCC. She has researched and developed all the course content, and is the lead instructor at many course locations.

Before joining the NFCA, Drysdale served as head coach at Northwestern, where she won 590 games on the field that would eventually bear her name. In her 23 years in Evanston, Drysdale guided the Wildcats to five Big 10 titles and three consecutive Women’s College World Series berths while being named the Big Ten Coach of the Year three times.

Prior to her stint at Northwestern, Drysdale served as both the head softball coach and women's athletics director at Kansas, where she won 64 games and led the Jayhawks to four consecutive top 10 finishes in the AIAW softball championship.

Drysdale also serves as the head coach of the New England Riptide of the National Pro Fastpitch League. A 1994 NFCA Hall of Fame inductee, Drysdale guided the Riptide to the 2006 NPF championship.

Bill Edwards

A 2009 NFCA Hall of Fame inductee, Bill Edwards has completed 21 seasons as the Hofstra University head softball coach and has been the architect of a program that has grown to national prominence. He has led Hofstra to the regional finals of the NCAA tournament four times in the last seven years, and helped the Pride capture 11 straight conference tournament titles from 1998-2008, which is the longest streak in NCAA Division I softball history. His career record stands at 766-363-3 in 21 seasons.

Edwards guided Hofstra to a school-record matching 45 wins in 2010, falling to Arizona in the finals of the regional tournament. In 2008, two wins at the NCAA Regionals in Hempstead allowed the Pride to finish 45-13, while winning the Colonial Athletic Association regular season and postseason championships. Hofstra also reached the regional finals at Alabama in 2005 and at Stanford in 2004, when the Pride won four games and fell just one why shy of reaching the Women's College World Series.

Edwards has been named the NFCA Regional Coach of the Year nine times in his career (1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008), including in five of the last six years. His influence has spread far beyond the Hofstra campus, as he has been the featured speaker at softball clinics and conventions throughout the United States. Edwards serves as the chairman for the NCAA Division I All-American committee and is the Colonial Athletic Association representative on the NCAA Legislative Committee.

Carol Hutchins

University of Michigan head coach Carol Hutchins recently completed her 26th season as head softball coach at the University of Michigan, where she has molded the Wolverines into one of the elite programs in college softball. On December 8, 2006, Hutchins was inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in recognition of her coaching success and the indelible mark she has left on both Michigan and collegiate softball.

Last season, Michigan used powerful hitting and commanding pitching performances to a 49-8 record, its third straight Big Ten Conference title and its sixth consecutive trip to the NCAA Super Regional. UM is the first program in Big Ten history to capture three consecutive regular-season titles.

Hutchins has led the Wolverines to the Women's College World Series in nine of the last 16 seasons, and, in 2005, the Maize and Blue became the first program east of the Mississippi River to claim the NCAA national championship when it defeated UCLA. Michigan's record-setting 2005 season was the culmination of two decades of dedication for Hutchins and her current and former players and coaches.. 

Eugene Lenti

Coach Eugene Lenti is not a "numbers" guy. Instead, he prefers to teach the game of softball and when the game is done, he leaves everything on the field.  However; what Coach Lenti has accomplished in his 29 years at DePaul University, is all about the numbers and it leaves the casual softball fan, colleagues, former and current DePaul student-athletes, potential softball players and sports fans astonished. 

In his 29 years in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Lenti has won 1,060 games and since 1999, he has taken four teams to the Women's College World Series.  Although the Blue Demons have been deemed a "Cinderella" each time they have ventured to Oklahoma City; DePaul is one of only five teams since 1999 to have made four or more trips to WCWS. 

The glass slipper stigmatism has been shattered by DePaul teams -- 15 have made an appearance in a NCAA Championship and 12 have been crowned regular season conference champions, including the University's first two Big East Conference championships in 2007 and 2009.

Coach Lenti's teams are competitive from the first out to the 21st; with his teams playing an exciting, aggressive and fundamentally sound style that is fun to watch.  Exceptional pitching has been a staple of Lenti's program and with the addition of Gold Medalist and USA National Team member, Cat Osterman to the coaching staff in 2007 that trend is sure to continue. 

Phil McSpadden

Phil McSpadden has built the nation’s best small-college soft­ball program and most storied program in the NAIA at Okla­homa City University, capturing OCU’s eighth national cham­pionship in 2007. The Stars finished as the national runner-up in 2010.

McSpadden has compiled myriad accolades, including be­coming an NAIA hall of famer in 2007. He has been recog­nized as national coach of the year by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association four times, NAIA coach of the year eight times, region coach of the year once and three-time Sooner Athletic Conference coach of the year. He and his staff have been NFCA NAIA coaching staff of the year twice.

In his 24th year at OCU, 23rd as head coach, McSpadden has guided OCU to eight national championships, the most in NAIA history, and two national runner-up finishes in 20 trips to the NAIA Championships.

Jay Miller

Presently in a four-year coaching stint as head coach for the U.S. Women's National Team, Jay Miller recently completed his eighth season as head coach at Mississippi State, and 28th as a Division I head coach. He has taken the Bulldogs to the NCAA tournament six of the past eight seasons and was a regional runner-up to Women's College World Series participant Texas in 2005.

Miller began his coaching career in 1984 at now-NAIA powerhouse Oklahoma City, and became head coach at Missouri in 1987. He led the Tigers to five NCAA tournaments, and advanced to the Women’s College World Series in both 1991 and 1994. His 1997 team captured the Big 12 regular season and tournament championships. Miller was named Coach of the Year in the Big Eight in 1990 and 1991, and won the same honor in 1997 as a coach in the Big 12.

An accomplished coach on the internationa level, Miller guided USA to the title at the World Championships and to first-place honors in the World Cup of Softball in 2010. Miller also served as the head coach for the Jr. World National team in 2006 and 2007 and in the summer of 2007, led the USA team to the gold medal in the ISF Junior World Championships. He was also an assistant with the World University Team that captured the Gold Medal in the summer of 2006 in Taiwan. In 2005 he served as an assistant to the USA Elite Team that was runner-up in the Canada Cup and brought home the Gold medal in the Intercontinental Cup in Madrid, Spain. The 2004 season saw Miller lead the U.S. Elite Team to a Gold Medal at the first ever World University Games. Miller led the USA Elite team to a Canada Cup title in 2003, defeating such teams as Australia, China, Chinese Taipei and the No. 1 U.S. team, to name only a few. He previously served as head coach of the 2001 USA Red squad which won Gold in the U.S. Cup and the USA Elite team that took runner-up honors at the 2002 Canada Cup.

An accomplished clinician, Miller has conducted clinics throughout the world and has spoken at all the top national coaches clinics during the past 25 years. Miller was inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in December 2008.

Stacy Nuveman

A three-time U.S. Olympian, Stacey Nuveman recently completed her second season as an assistant coach at San Diego State University. This follows two seasons as an assistant coach at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif., in 2007 and 2008. At SDSU, Nuveman is the recruiting coordinator and also works with the Aztec hitters.

As a starting catcher for Team USA for three Olympiads, Nuveman won gold medals with the American squad at the 2000 Sydney Games and 2004 Athens Games as well as a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Nuveman has worked at a variety of camps and clinics and is highlighted in the instructional video "The Fundamentals of Catching." She has also done color commentary and studio analyst work for ESPN, CSTV (now CBS College Sports TV) and FOX Sports.

As a four-time All-American catcher at UCLA, Nuveman finished her collegiate career with four NCAA career records - 90 home runs, a .945 slugging percentage, 240 walks and 81 intentional walks. She continues to hold the records for career home runs, slugging percentage and intentional walks while ranking second in walks, fourth in batting average (.466), fourth with 299 RBI and 21st in hits (322). The inaugural ASA/USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year (2002) and three-time Pac-10 Player of the Year (1999, 2001, 2002), she led the Bruins to an NCAA championship in 1999, the year in which she set school records with 31 home runs and 91 RBI.

Deb Pallozzi

Ithaca's softball coach since 1989, Deb Pallozzi has built the Bomber program into a perennial playoff contender. She coached the team to its first national championship in 2002, compiling a 37-13 record and setting a school record for wins. She is the school's winningest softball coach, raising her Ithaca total to 621 wins in 22 seasons.

Pallozzi, who was named Ithaca's Senior Woman Administrator in the fall of 2005, has been named Empire 8 Coach of the Year five of the past nine seasons; her staff was named NFCA Northeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year after the Bombers finished 31-14, winning the regional title and placing fourth at the College World Series in 2005.

In 2002 Ithaca captured the national championship after winning a rain-shortened regional. The Bombers posted a 4-1 record at nationals to win the title. Pallozzi was named Empire 8 Coachof the Year. In 2003 the Bombers finished with a 30-11 record, placing third in the NCAA northeast regional playoffs. Pallozzi was named Empire 8 Coach of the Year for the fourth straight season. The 2004 team went 27-15 and finished as regional runner-up. She led Ithaca back to the championship tournament in 2006 where the Bombers tied for fifth. That team posted a 40-7 record, setting a school record for wins.

 In 2008, the Bombers returned to the College World Series after dominating the NCAA Regional Tournament, as the Bombers defeated four opponents by a combined score of 31-2 to take the regional title. Ithaca defeated Lynchburg and Cortland at the championship series to place fourth in the nation.

Rhonda Revelle

The winningest softball coach in University of Nebraska history, Rhonda Revelle is slated to become the first Big 12 coach enducted into the NFCA Hall of Famer in late 2010. Revelle is 680-371 in 19 seasons with the Huskies, including 35-win campaigns in 11 of the past 13 season.

In the 2005 season, the Huskers defeated seven ranked teams, including three victories over top-10 teams, earning Revelle her 500th career win before hosting their third consecutive NCAA regional tournament.

In 2006, Revelle expanded her role for the Huskers athletic department, assuming duties as both associate athletic director and senior woman administrator. That year, Nebraska finished 44-12, posting the third-best winning percentage in school history. She served as senior woman administrator for two seasons, before returning to a coaching-only role in 2008.

In 2002, Nebraska went 50-14 and claimed the school’s seventh berth into the Women’s College World Series. The Huskers were ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation, winning a school-record 23 consecutive games during the season.

Revelle led NU to a 153-50 record from 2000 to 2002, the most successful three-year period in program history.

Revelle was a member of Nebraska ’s first Women’s College World Series team and first Big Eight Championship squad in 1982. She ranks among the Huskers' career top 10 in saves and ERA.

After her college career, Revelle became a five-time ASA All-American, winning MVP honors at the 1987 Class “A” women’s national tournament.

Heather Tarr

With six seasons now in the books, University of Washington head coach Heather Tarr has led the Huskies to unprecedented heights. In 2009, the Huskies won their first-ever national championship in softball. In 2010, UW again won 50-plus games while again playing the Women's College World Series. Tarr is 243-112-1 with her alma mater.

Before taking over the Washington program, Tarr had a six-year stint at Pacific, starting as an assistant coach before being promoted to associate head coach in April of 2004.

During her six seasons at Pacific, the Tigers posted a 232-124 (.652) overall record and 90-44 (.672) mark in the Big West Conference.

In 2004, Tarr guided the Tigers to a top-20 national batting average. In 2001, she and Pacific head coach Brian Kolze were named the 2001 NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year after guiding the Tigers to within one win of the Women's College World Series and a No. 18 final national ranking. That team also finished the season with a .973 fielding percentage, ranking second-best in the country.

Tarr joined Pacific prior to the 1999 season after an outstanding career as a Husky. As a four-year letter winner, Tarr helped lead UW to a second-place finish at the Women's College World Series in 1996 and a third-place finish in 1997.

John Tschida

John Tschida is the only NCAA coach to lead two different institutions to NCAA softball titles. It took just two years to get the University of St. Thomas (Minn.) to the national championships and just four years to lead the Tommies to two consecutive Division III national titles in 2004 and 2005. He guided his alma mater, Saint Mary's, to the 2000 NCAA Division III championship in just his fifth year of coaching.

Tschida and his staff earned NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year honors twice in the last six years. In his 16-year college career, Tschida has become the winningest Division III softball coach, active or retired, with a 613-106 record (.853 winning percentage). Every team ever coached by Tschida has been nationally ranked.

He guided the 2006 Tommies to a second place finish in the NCAA Division III National Championships and finished 48-4. The 48 wins tied a Division III record, and the team's 72 home runs in 52 games shattered the old D-III season record.

As a player, Tschida has been a two-time NAFA All-World player, five-time ASA Class "A" All-American, 2006 ASA Men's Open All-American and an ISC All-World Team player. He has competed in 17 ISC World Tournaments, 18 ASA National Tournaments and eight NAFA World Series. In 1998, Tschida was the leadoff hitter for the 1998 ASA Class "A" National Champion DMS Knights and won the NAFA World Series Open title in 2005. The teams he has played on are typically ranked in the top ten in the ISC World Rankings.

Tim Walton

In his five years at University of Florida, Tim Walton has coached the Gators to the Women’s College World Series three times, including a trip to the championship series, brought home two Southeastern Conference regular-season and tournament titles and earned SEC Coach of the Year twice. UF has made the NCAA Tournament every year of his tenure and hosted Regionals all five times.

He has coached 14 All-Americans, 19 NFCA All-Southeast Region honorees, five WCWS All-Tournament team selections, 23 All-SEC selections, 13 SEC All-Tournament team members, including two MVPs, two SEC Pitchers of the Year and a Player of the Year. The coaching staff has earned NFCA Southeast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year three years and the team was one of Easton’s Teams of the Year in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Walton’s 2010 Gators finished 49-10 with a .831 winning percentage, fourth best in the country. They made the WCWS for the third straight year as they were the fourth seed in the NCAA Tournament, garnering a top-five seed for the third straight year.

Scott Whitlock

One of the winningest coaches in NCAA softball, Scott Whitlock has accumulated two national titles, 13 regional crowns and has made Kennesaw State softball a respected and admired program. Whitlock is also presently serving as in the interim Director of Athletics at Kennesaw State.

After successful runs at the NAIA and NCAA Division II levels, Whitlock has guided Kennesaw State into NCAA Division I, compiling a 139-84 Division I record, winning the Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championship in 2007 and is already a two-time A-Sun Coach of the Year.

Whitlock guided the Owls to back-to-back NCAA Division II titles in 1995 and 1996 and has a career winning percentage of .794 with an 880-229 record over 20 seasons. Whitlock is a 2005 NFCA Hall of Fame inductee.

Margie Wright

In her 26th season as head coach of the Fresno State softball program, Margie Wright has directed the Bulldogs to a national title (1998) while guiding the program to the NCAA Women's College World Series 10 times out of the program's 12 appearances. As the first NCAA Division I softball coach and 24th overall in NCAA Division I history, regardless of sport, to amass 1,000 Division I career victories and the first to tally 1,300 fastpitch wins, she owns an impressive 25-year school mark of 1,223-408-1 (.750) and a 31-year career record of 1,386-500-3 (.735).

Including her six-year stint at Illinois State, Wright has posted an astonishing 30-year career record of 1,345-479-3 (.737) in her illustrious career. As the NCAA’s all-time winningest softball coach, she has also directed the Bulldog softball program to 17 conference titles and 10 regional championship crowns while coaching 53 All-Americans, 16 Academic All-Americans, 15 Olympians and two NCAA Top VIII Award winners. In addition, Wright has made Fresno State just one of four NCAA Division I schools to make 10 or more trips to the WCWS.

On the international stage, Wright has helped the U.S Women’s National Team capture gold. She was an assistant coach on the 1996 Olympic team that won gold in the sports inaugural Olympic debut prior to serving as head coach for the 1998 squad that captured an unprecedented fourth gold medal at the ISF World Championship.

Inducted into seven halls of fame, Wright was inducted to the NFCA Hall of Fame in 2000 and recently was inducted into the Women's Sports Foundation International Hall of Fame last October.