by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC
Kansas City Kansas Community College’s women’s softball team blasted a home run at the Kansas City Royals Urban Youth Academy this week.
Twenty-one Lady Blue Devil coaches and players put on an hour-long instructional clinic for more than 30 girls and boys at the academy’s campus at 14th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday.
“Things went great,” wrote academy softball program coordinator Ashley Newman. “The parents had great things to say about how instructional the clinic and how the kids got to work on things that other teams hadn’t touched on such as bunting, sliding, diving and so on. They also loved the hats and shirts as well. Thank you so much for having the team at the academy.”
The Blue Devils were the ninth women’s college team to put on one of the weekly clinics although only the third community college along with Maple Woods and Johnson County.
“We had parents telling us this was by far the best instructional camp of the nine because we touched on so many areas,” KCKCC assistant coach Tiffany Jennings said.
The indoor clinic was held on the Alex Gordon Family Field. An All-Star Royals outfielder, Gordon was one of several major donors to the academy along with Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Salvador Perez and General Manager Dayton Moore.
Founded by Dayton Moore in 2016, the academy focuses on inner-city youth ages 6-18 to ensure that all age groups have a the dual opportunity to develop into high character, productive members of society and at the same time learn the skills of softball and baseball.
