AE Softball · Petaluma

Built to get you recruited

AE Softball is new, and we're building it the right way: a written recruiting plan, verified metrics, a profile page for every player, and a schedule chosen around the colleges our players want to play for. Backed by Athletic Edge, developing Petaluma players since 1987.

Tryouts: Nov 28 & Dec 5 Upcoming events The recruiting program

Why families choose AE Softball

A plan you can read

Our recruiting process is published. Families know what happens each year, from parent night to signing day.

Numbers coaches trust

Strength, power, swing, and pitch data measured with the AE Power Index, Blast Motion, and pitchLogic. See player development.

A page for every player

Video, metrics, academics, and schedule in one link a player can send to any college coach.

Indoor, year-round

Seven indoor cages and turf tunnels at Athletic Edge. We train inside through rain and winter.

Upcoming events

Tournaments, tryouts, and open workouts. Tournaments are where college coaches watch; we build the season around them.

Teams

16U and 18U for 2026–27. 14U and 12U are in development: join the interest list at a tryout.

Recruited on purpose, not by chance

We don't enter an expensive tournament and hope a coach is watching. Each player builds a target list on five pillars of fit, contacts those coaches herself, and invites them to her games, so that on September 1 of junior year she is already on their board.

See the six-step program Parent packet (PDF)

Coaches

One staff for both teams, so every player gets the same coaching and the same recruiting support.

We train inside, year-round

Seven indoor batting cages and turf tunnels at the Athletic Edge facility in Petaluma.

Rain, dark, or December, practice happens. Open workouts run Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and teams use the facility for hitting, pitching, and metrics days throughout the year.

A new team with a 39-year story behind it

Athletic Edge is a community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that has supported young baseball and softball players in Petaluma since 1987: camps and clinics, batting cages, equipment, and travel team sponsorship. Its alumni wall includes major leaguers and a World Series champion.

Owner Jeff Inglin played at Casa Grande, College of Marin, and USC, where he was an All-American. He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox and played ten years of professional baseball, reaching AAA. He came home to coach the next generation of Petaluma players. AE Softball brings that same program to the girls' game.

Visit the AE Hall of Fame

Tryouts are open

Saturday, Nov 28 and Saturday, Dec 5 · 2–4 pm · Casa Grande Varsity Field, Petaluma. All positions, 16U and 18U. Younger players welcome for the 14U/12U interest list.