Our Softball Programs

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Alan Gombos is a Director for the Warriors Association and is currently the head coach for the Senior Ladies team. He is a Level 2 Certified Coach and has over 30 years experience coaching fastball. Alan has coached all levels of young ladies starting  in the NEZ program with girls as young as 7 years old and then progressed to the Warriors in the following years. He has coached with various organizations over the years and came back to the Warriors in the past few years.

Mickey Friedrick started her competitive level of fastball with the Warriors playing with them for 6 years from peewee to midget (a different age label back then) and has once again become a Warrior playing for the Warrior Sr Ladies for the past 3 years as a catcher and utility player.  During her time she has won several gold and silver provincial medals as well as top offensive player awards.  She is now manager and assistant coach for the Sr team as well as taken on the role of treasurer for the Association. She has also coached the younger ages for 2 years now as they start to learn the game and develop their skills.  

Blaire Taylor is part of the Development Team for the Edmonton Warriors where she helps train athletes in overall skill development and specializes in Pitching.  Blaire played thirteen years with the Edmonton Warriors, and in that time the team won 7 Provincial Gold, 4 Provincial Silver, and 1 Provincial Bronze medal.  Blaire started her college career pitching for NJCAA Division 1 Seward County Community College, and finished her career at NAIA Division 1 Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.  

Shaun Bannink

So excited to be a part of the Warriors program!  I have been coaching many different sports for over 20 years.  I have coached "kicking daisy soccer" all the way to team Alberta football vying for a national championship.  I possess a Level 2 certification in Hockey and Football, Level 1 in Soccer and Baseball.  Last year I was a co-Head coach in community ball in Edmonton and enjoyed supporting the young ladies, our team won Citys in our tier!  

Currently, I am an assistant director and Head coach of a U13 all girls hockey team in Edmonton.  Focus for my coaching style are the fundamentals, "in the moment coaching" and communication.  Everything we do as coaches is to build the girls up and improve in sport, all the while looking to support them in their personal life goals.  I have a very easy formula that is a hallmark of how we prepare.  E X S = R....  Effort (What the girls put in) X Skills/Strategies (what the coaches will provide) = Results (what we will achieve together)  GO Warriors GO!!

Grant Taylor 

Grant has been coaching softball since 1979. In that time his teams have won multiple Alberta championships and Western Canadian, a Junior National Championship, a Bantam Western Canadian Championship and Silver medals at the Western Canada Summer Games (2015) and Canada Summer Games (2017).

His athletes have been recognized Provincially and Nationally. Many of them have attended N.A.I.A. and N.C.A.A institutes of learning on softball scholarships.

Grant is a Certified Competitive Development trained coach. He is a Training Facilitator for Softball Alberta and organizes and participates in the Warrior Development Program in the off season.