The Amateur Softball Association wants to invite all parents, coaches, administers and other volunteers to nominate a youth softball coaches to receive one of the Responsible Sports Coaching Awards presented by Liberty Mutual Group. These awards will be presented to youth coaches around the country who best exemplify sportsmanship, integrity and overall concern for the development of our young athletes on and off the field.

Parents, coaches, administrators and other volunteers can visit ResponsibleSports.com through the end of August to nominate a youth softball coach from their community. Award winners, selected through a process overseen by Positive Coaching Alliance and Liberty Mutual’s youth sports partners including the ASA, will each receive $250 to help fund his or her team or organization; a personalized Responsible Coaching trophy from Liberty Mutual; and special recognition on the Responsible Sports website, as well as on asasoftball.com and usasoftball.com

About Liberty Mutual

“Helping people live safer, more secure lives” since 1912, Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is a diversified global insurer and sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2007 direct written premium. Liberty Mutual ranks 94th on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. corporations, based on 2007 revenue. Liberty Mutual Group has over 41,000 employees located in more than 900 offices throughout the world.

The eighth-largest auto and home insurer in the U.S., Liberty Mutual sells full lines of coverage for automobile, homeowners, valuable possessions, personal liability, and individual life insurance. The company is an industry leader in group sponsored voluntary auto and homeowners insurance programs, offering personal lines insurance through payroll deduction and direct billing to employees and members of more than 10,000 companies, credit unions, professional associations and alumni groups.

About ASA

The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 230,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com.

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