WHITNEY JOHNSON, CO-OWNER, PITCHING INSTRUCTOR
Johnson enjoyed a record-setting career for North Dakota State University. Johnson was a member of three Summit League championship teams and made three NCAA regional tournament appearances while at North Dakota State. She was the 2010 Summit League Freshman of the Year, a four-time all-league and all-tournament selection, two-time Summit League tournament MVP, 2013 Pitcher of the Year, and a two-time all-NFCA Midwest Region pitcher. Johnson was a12-time league pitcher of the week and four-time national pitcher of the week. She ended her Career as the Summit League's all-time leader with 994 strikeouts and was the Bison all-time leader in appearances, games started and innings pitched, and second in opponent batting average (.185) and strikeouts per 7 innings (8.08 avg.) After concluding her pitching career, Johnson joined the coaching ranks. She worked with the pitchers at UNLV during the 2017 season. Prior to heading to Las Vegas, Johnson was an assistant and pitching coach for the University of LaVerne from 2014-16.
TIEN LY, CO-OWNER, CATCHING & HITTING INSTRUCTOR
Coach Tien Ly began his softball coaching career with his oldest daughter, Anna in Oswego, IL. All three of his daughters have played or play softball. In 2015, his 10U Shakopee team won Tier 1 fall state championship, and in 2018, he helped the Eden Prairie 10U team win the first ever MOA Nationals championship.
Coach Tien’s passion is with training and development of young players. His specialty is with hitting and catching. He has served as the off-season trainer for Edina, Lakeville, St Louis Park, Clutch Hitters, Midwest Power 14U and MN Ice, which he was also the head coach and player development director. He does private hitting and catching lessons out of TLC in Savage. Currently, he’s the hitting director for Mission Fastpitch and coaches the Mission 16U National team.
Coach Tien has 17 years experience, which has taught him to use a number of different methods to get great results for your athlete. He uses technology to enhance his lessons, leveraging blast and pocket radar data as well as video to get his results.