Utah Devils Softball

08/13/2025

What. A. Day. 🥎🔥
Saturday Utah Devils Softball powered through a marathon—5 back to back games today in Payson, UT! 💪😅 So proud of these girls for battling their way to 3rd place in this AFA Double Down tournament. The girls left it all on the field, and us coaches were running on fumes by the end.

Some of the team to watch the championship game—congrats to the Red Hots for taking 1st over the Regulatorz, that was a well played game in both sides! 👏

Highlight of the day? Home runs! A few of our girls went yard, and Swazie crushed her first-ever home run in a game! Myra, Paisley, Avery, London and Makinley also hit home runs! 🎉⚾

Way to go, Devils! 😈❤️

08/13/2025

🔥 Utah Devils Softball 18U – Tryouts – Payson, UT 🔥

Come join this highly motivated, competitive team of athletes striving for physical and mental fitness — on and off the field. We have a great group of players and a full, competitive tournament schedule planned through February. Now, we’re looking to add a couple more athletes to strengthen our roster.

We’re for players at all positions who bring skill, energy, and commitment to the game.

📅 Tryout Dates:
• Thursday, Aug 21 6-8pm
• Saturday, Aug 23 9-11am

📍 Location: Payson, UT Gene Hillman Fields Field #2
📩 Message us for details! Coach Darin: 801.885.0514

Come be part of a team determined to finish the year strong — Go Devils! 🥎🔥

08/07/2025

Champions!! 🏆🔥
The Utah Devils Softball team are your 18U Orem Summer League CHAMPIONS! 💪🥎
It was a challenging season with plenty of growth, grit, and grind—but incredibly rewarding to coach this amazing group again. So proud of these girls and the work they put in! Let’s go Devils! 😈❤️

08/07/2025

Utah Devils Softball have signed up for this Payson League. The fields in Payson are beautiful and very well maintained! I encourage teams looking for a league with fields better than some other leagues in Utah County this is the answer for you! This league will be nice for the girls to play in.

Last call for Fall league

06/06/2025

Utah Devils Warm-Up Message – June 5, 2025 – Utah Summer Games, Game One
Devils—lock in right now.

As you stretch and prepare, start generating the mental power that will sustain your focus and fire all game long. Today, you take the field as champions in the making. That doesn’t start with the first pitch—it starts now, with your mindset.

You’ve trained your body. You’ve trained your mind. You’ve built a clear, vivid image of who you are at your best. Now your job is to trust that work. Stay loose. Stick to your plan. Execute with belief.

Any thought of doubt, fear, or not belonging? Quash it. Those thoughts are enemies—designed to drag you into mediocrity. We don’t let them live here.

Instead, dwell on your moments of power—those big plays, those line drives, those dominant innings. Let those define you. Burn them into your mind and erase everything that doesn’t match your vision of success.

If you start to feel tight or frustrated, hit reset. Breathe. Smile. Say to yourself, “Let’s go. I’ve got this. I’m built for this moment.” You are.

When you dig into the box for your first at-bat, you better believe that you belong there. Say it out loud if you have to:
“I am a hunter. I recognize strikes and I crush them.”
Own that identity. Every pitch. Every time.

In the field, same deal. Be ready. Between every pitch, tell yourself:
“I make plays.”
Visualize it. Expect it. Then do it.

And if things don’t go exactly the way you pictured? You reset. You adapt. You respond like a pro. If you swing and miss, have a little convo with that pitcher in your head—“Throw that again. Watch what happens.” If you strike out, you don’t sulk. Not for one second. That’s not who we are. You turn to your teammate, give them belief, and pass on what you saw.

Because pity is poison. We don’t tolerate it—not from ourselves, not from anyone. It tears teams down. And we’re here to rise.

We play with heart, hustle, and grit.
We play to our standard—not the opponent’s.
We play for each other—and we bring the fire.

So right now, as you warm up, commit to that vision of your best self. Sharpen it. Speak it. Step into it. And when that first pitch is thrown, let them see what it means to be a Devil.

Play Hot. Stay Loose. Be Relentless. One Team. On Fire. We’re Devils.

06/05/2025

Coach’s message June 4, 2025

🔥 DEVILS🔥
Tomorrow we take the field, and we’ll be ready—not because of luck, but because we prepared. Champions don’t wait for game day to get ready—they train their mind and body ahead of time.

🧠 Your brain doesn’t know the difference between a real rep and a vividly imagined one. That’s your edge. Visualize yourself crushing pitches, making elite plays, and leading with confidence.

📽 Visualize success TODAY!
💤 Get 8+ hours of sleep TONIGHT!
⚡ Bring energy TOMORROW!

Rest is part of the plan. A rested Devil is a dangerous Devil. Show up sharp. Be vocal. Be the spark.

You don’t just wear the Devils name—you live it.
🔥 Play Hot. Stay Humble. Be Devils.
One Team. On Fire. We’re Devils.🔥

06/03/2025

Visualize your success to make it a reality - Warm-Up Message - June 3, 2025

We’re not just going through the motions. We’re here to build champions—on and off the field. Our standard is excellence. Our mission is bigger than softball. We play with heart, hustle, and grit. We lead with integrity. We grow through adversity. Softball is our passion—but character is our legacy.

In just two days, we take the field for our first tournament of the season. Preparation doesn’t begin with warm-up tosses. It starts now—with how you think. With how you see yourself.

Your nervous system doesn’t know the difference between a real experience and one you vividly imagine. That means when you vividly imagine yourself hitting a line drive, your brain responds as if you’re actually doing it. And the more you mentally rehearse that moment, the more natural it becomes—because your subconscious begins to accept that you’re the kind of player who crushes that pitch when it comes. Anything you consistently replay in your mind becomes the reality your body moves toward.

That’s powerful—but it cuts both ways. If you constantly replay mistakes in your mind, if you picture yourself as average, inconsistent, or unsure, your brain will accept that as the truth—and your body will follow. You will unconsciously train yourself to underperform.

But you’re in control—so choose to feed your brain vivid images of success. Picture yourself crushing line drives, making smooth, confident plays, and performing like the elite athlete you’re becoming. Your brain will believe that too. Right now, at the start of the season, you have the chance to mentally step into the version of you who is already succeeding. The more clearly and consistently you rehearse that success, the more naturally it becomes who you are.

Don’t wait to feel confident—create confidence. That winning feeling? It starts in your mind.

No one can create this belief for you. That’s your job. Own your mindset. Own your performance. You’re not waiting to feel ready—you’re preparing to dominate.

Mental Reps: Your Visualization Game Plan
Start imagining success like this several times a day between now and the tournament:

- Mentally step into the box. Feel the dirt under your cleats.

- Visualize your breathing calm and focused.

- Visualize the pitcher in their windup and the pitch hurtling toward you.

- Feel yourself perfectly time the pitch and engage your muscles in the correct sequence.

- Hear the crack of the bat as you crush your pitch.

- Watch the ball scream off your bat for a double, a home run.

- See yourself reacting quickly on defense—fielding cleanly, throwing with confidence and precision.

When each of you does this work—prepares like this, visualizes like this—you raise the standard for the whole team. We don’t just show up. We show up as Devils—on fire and fully prepared.

So when your cleats hit the dirt on Thursday morning and that first pitch is thrown, you’ll know—you’ve already been here. You’ve seen that moment. And you’re ready to own it.

Visualize excellence. Believe in yourself. And when it’s game time—Play Hot. Stay Humble. Be relentless. Be united. One Team. On Fire. We’re the Devils.

Send a message to learn more

05/31/2025

Visualize Greatness, Build a vivid mental image of your success

Warm-Up Message – Utah Devils Softball – May 31, 2025

We’re not just going through the motions out here. We are here to build champions—on and off the field. Our standard is excellence, and our mission is bigger than softball. We play with heart, hustle, and grit. We lead with integrity. We grow through adversity. This game is our passion—but our character is our legacy.

Okay Devils—while you warm up, Every throw, every rep, every breath right now is shaping who you are when the game begins. I want you locked in. This message is truly important to your success, not only in softball but to your happiness and life.

You don’t act and feel according to how things really are—you act and feel according to the image your mind holds of how things are. Think about that for a second: your performance follows your perception. If you see yourself succeeding, you will move toward that outcome. If you doubt, you will stall, hesitate and fail.

So ask yourself: what image are you building? Are you feeding doubt or fueling belief? That simple choice—completely within your control—will change your life for better or worse. So why not choose to build an image of yourself succeeding? Don’t let anyone tear that image down—and because it’s yours, don’t let yourself tear it down either. Instead, choose to make it stronger, clearer, and more vivid every day. Build a mental picture of excellence—and then step into it.

Winning isn’t about luck. It’s about preparation—and belief. That winning feeling doesn’t just happen out of luck. It shows up because you chose to foster belief in your success. You own it before the game even starts. You have the power to create that feeling—by repeatedly envisioning success instead of worrying about failure. When you step up to the plate, you’re not hoping—you’re hunting. Hunting for your pitch. Crushing it. When you’re fielding a ground ball or making a throw, you’re not wondering if you’ll get it done—you know you will. You’ve trained for this. Free your subconscious. Let your body do what it’s been trained to do. Move with confidence. React with instinct. The winning feeling is yours to create—and yours to control.

Remember:

Winning feeling is not luck—it’s preparation.
Train your mind to feel like a winner before you compete. If you’ve already seen yourself succeeding in your head, your body will follow.

Compete from belief, not fear. Doubt interferes. Confidence unlocks.
Don’t play to avoid failure. When you’re thinking about mistakes or fearing failure, you block your performance. Play to achieve excellence. Belief fuels action. Fear stalls it.

Let’s live our mission today—heart, hustle, grit—and make sure our character is what this game remembers. Visualize greatness. Choose belief. Hunt your pitch. Own the moment.

Play Hot. Stay Humble. Be Devils. One Team. On Fire. We’re Devils.

Send a message to learn more

05/29/2025

Warm-Up Message – Utah Devils Softball - May 29, 2025
Live the way of champions - Raise your standard!

Okay Devils—let's lock in. Let's set the tone together right now for this practice.

While we warm up, I want you to think about what it means to play to a standard. Not just today. Not just on game day. But every day.

We don’t wait for greatness to happen—we build it. Our mission is clear: We’re here to become champions on and off the field. Athletes with heart, hustle, and grit. We play for each other. We lead with integrity. We grow through adversity. This game is our passion—but our character is our legacy.

Remember: Well done is better than well said. Excellence doesn’t come from big speeches or highlight plays. It comes from the little things—done well, done often, and done with purpose.

That’s what The Mundanity of Excellence teaches us. Champions aren’t made through one magical moment. They’re made through thousands of ordinary actions—done with extraordinary consistency.

So we don’t go through the motions. We raise the bar. We bring maximum effort to everything: our warm-up, our throws, our footwork, our mindset. That’s what playing to a standard means. It means we live the way of the champion—hungry and humble, every single day.

You all have the power to raise that standard—right now. To quash mediocrity. To insist on excellence. To hold each other to it. To hold yourself to it.

You have the power to raise the standard—right now, today in this practice, and no one else can do it for you. Don’t look around waiting for someone else to push you or hold you accountable. You are the one who decides if we’re truly living the way of champions. That standard doesn’t rise by accident. It rises when each of you commits to doing the work, to demanding more of yourself, and to showing others what it looks like to chase excellence—rep after rep, moment after moment. You’re not just part of this culture—you’re building it.

Let’s do this together.
Play Hot. Stay Humble. Be Devils. One Team. On Fire. We’re Devils.

05/27/2025

Warm-up Message:

Devils, take a breath, find stillness, and lock in—because this matters.

Today, we’re talking about focus. Not just any kind of focus, but the kind that shapes who you are—as an athlete and a teammate. The kind that directs your mind’s most powerful tool: your creative mechanism.

From Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s Psycho-Cybernetics, we learn this: Your brain is a goal-striving machine. It will chase whatever picture you give it—good or bad. If your focus is on fear, failure, or pressure? That’s exactly where your mind will take you. But when you focus on the process, on purpose, on being present—your brain starts firing in ways that unlock your best.

Your brain is always listening. The images and words you feed it shape what happens next. If you zero in on your misses, your strikeouts, your errors—guess what? That becomes your reality. You tighten up. You try to force it. You feed your failure mechanism.

But if you stay loose, calm, and locked in on the process, you give your creative mechanism room to work. Your instincts sharpen. Your body flows. You make plays. You grow.

Now connect that with what John O’Sullivan teaches in Every Moment Matters:
You don’t show up to win. You show up to compete.

If you're thinking about stats, offers, or wins—you’re focused on outcomes. You’re chasing things outside your control. That kind of focus feeds the failure mechanism. It makes you tight, tentative, and distracted.

But when you show up to compete—with grit, with fire, with purpose—you feed your success mechanism. You lock in on the controllables: effort, ex*****on, energy. And that’s when you play free, confident, and fast.

So today, we’re not here to impress. We’re not here to be perfect.
We’re here to program our success mechanism—our subconscious—to work for us.

If you boot a grounder or throw one off-line—fine. That happens when you're working to improve.
Learn. Reset. Move on. Stay in the fight.

Frustration is the enemy of growth. Confidence is built through struggle.
Champions are made in how they respond—not just how they perform.

So today, Devils:
Chase reps. Chase the dirt. Chase the little moments that make you better.

Play Hot. Stay Humble. Be Devils.

05/27/2025

Practice Warm-Up Message Saturday 24th: "Your Mind Is Your Most Powerful Teammate"

"Devils—every time you step onto this field, you're not just training your body. You're training your mind. And if your mind isn’t right, your body doesn’t stand a chance.

There's a principle from Psycho-Cybernetics I want you to understand. It says this: Your brain is like a guided missile. It follows the target you give it. If you picture mistakes, fear, or failure—that’s what your mind locks on to. But if you picture ex*****on, power, poise, and confidence, your mind will go to work making that your reality.

That’s why we say:
Play Hot. Stay Humble. Be Devils.
We see ourselves playing hot. We believe in each other. And we never get too high or too low—we just compete.

So today, as we get back into rhythm, I want you to focus your mind like a laser. Visualize success—before every rep, every swing, every throw. Talk to yourself like a champion. Because champions don’t just work hard—they program their minds to win.

Let’s set the tone for this season—One Team. On Fire. We’re Devils.”

04/09/2025

Utah Devils Softball Schedule June 2025 - January 2026

June - July Orem League doubleheaders on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Team practice on Tuesday or Thursday we don't have games and Saturdays.
August - September Payson doubleheaders on Wednesdays. Team practice on Tuesdays and Saturdays

- June 5-7 Cedar City - Utah Summer Games
- June 13-14 Kaysville - Kaysville Golden Spike
- 3 Weeks off
- July 10-12 Payson - Payson Tournament
- July 18-19 Salt Lake - SLCO
- 1 Week off
- August 1-2 Spanish Fork - Big Slam
- August 8-9 Payson - AFA Double Down
- 2 Weeks off
- August 29-30 Heber - Make it Reign
- 1 Week off
- September 12-13 Saratoga Springs - Hometown Heroes
- September 19-20 Saratoga Springs - September to Remember
- 1 Week off
- October 3-4 Henderson, NV - Pretty in Pink
- 1 Week off
- October 17-18 Saratoga Springs - Halloween Haunt
- October 24-25 Las Vegas, NV - Halloween Classic
- 1 Week off
- November 7-8 St. George
- 1 Week off
- November 21-22 Riverside, CA - Don Battles on CA
- 1 Week off
- December 5-6 Mesquite, NV - Cactus Cup
- 5 Weeks off
- January 16-17 Las Vegas - Best of the Best
- 1 Week off
- January 30-31 St. George - Desert Spring Classic

February 1-2 tournaments