New Jersey City University

JERSEY CITY, NJ (www.NJCUGothicKnights.com)...New Jersey City University head softball coach BRIDGETTE QUIMPO (Carteret, NJ)—entering her seventh season at the helm of the Gothic Knights—had the opportunity to make a presentation on December 11 at the 2009 National Fastpitch Coaches Association National Convention, which was held in Nashville, Tennessee from December 9-12.

 

Quimpo, who has served as a national clinician during her coaching career, presented the outfield drills portion of the NFCA’s on field demonstration of the panel “Drills, Drills, Drills.”

 

Quimpo had a ‘dream team’ of former University of Alabama collegiate players working as her demonstrators during the presentation. Assisting Quimpo were Team USA member Brittany Rogers, Staci Ramsey, a current assistant coach at the University of Mississippi, former All-America Stephanie VanBrakle the current head softball head coach at Birmingham-Southern College, and current BSC assistant coach Mandy Burford. Former University of California-Berkeley standout and Fordham University assistant coach Emily Friedman also assisted.

 

“It was my first time speaking in front of a national organization,” Quimpo noted about her experience. “I’ve spoken in front of 300-400 high school players and coaches at clinics before. But what made this experience challenging was I was doing this in front of my peers in the coaching profession. These are people who know the game. I’m sharing my knowledge and there’s people from all across the country sitting there who know just as much about the game if not more than you do, and they’re learning from you. It was really overwhelming and exciting.”

 

In past years, Quimpo has served as a clinician at the 2007 and 2008 Winter Clinics in Tampa, Florida, hosted at the University of South Florida. There she was an instructor of a three-hour catching clinic each day and one three-hour hitting clinic, working with athletes ranging in age from 10-17. She has experience teaching alongside Olympic players and coaches and top college coaches and elite collegiate athletics from across the nation.

Among her other clinic work, Quimpo has previously been a featured speaker at the Second Annual Big Apple Baseball and Softball Coaches Convention in January 2007 and served as a clinician as part of the Second Annual Gold Medal Instructional Softball Clinic at Fordham University in December 2007.