USA Softball

USA Softball is the United States national governing body for softball, a volunteer-driven not-for-profit organisation founded in 1933 and formerly known as the Amateur Softball Association (ASA). Recognised by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, it regulates softball competition, establishes and administers championship standards, sanctions events through state and metropolitan associations, develops officials, and fields United States national teams for domestic and international competition. The organisation has a nationwide association network, more than one million members and over 120,000 teams. USA Softball conducts more than 100 national championships each year across fast pitch, slow pitch and modified pitch, with teams qualifying through local and regional tournaments. Its 2026 programme included Girls’ GOLD, Class A, adult fast-pitch, men’s, women’s and co-ed slow-pitch national championships. The new 2026 One True Champion format named national champions across Junior Olympic age groups 10-Under to 18-Under, while territorial Class A and B championships continued. USA Softball also trains, equips and promotes national-team programmes from youth to Olympic-level competition and publishes its official rules, procedural code, bylaws and participant resources.