Softball Australia extends Rindfleish role as U-18 Men’s National Team head coach to 2022

Softball Australia extends Rindfleish role as U-18 Men’s National Team head coach to 2022
20/04/2020
Adam Rindfleish led the team to a silver medal at the WBSC U-18 Men’s Softball World Cup 2020 held in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Softball Australia has extended Adam Rindfleish’s contract as head coach of the 'Junior Steelers' U-18 Men’s Softball National Team to 2022, covering the next edition of the WBSC U-18 Men’s Softball World Cup. Rindfleish led Australia to a silver medal at the WBSC U-18 Men’s Softball World Cup, which was played earlier this year in New Zealand. The Aussies advanced to the final before falling to Japan, 9-2.

The green and gold team is the most decorated junior softball programme in the world. It was Australia’s sixth men’s softball youth world cup final, after winning the world title five times. The last time the Aussie junior national team won the world championship was in 2018. They won four consecutive world championships from 1997 to 2008. Rindfleish was part of Australia's 1997 world championship team in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.

Rindfleish, who will turn 41 on April 29, was also part of the World Cup winning coaching staff for the Junior Steelers in 2018 and was appointed to the head coach role for the 2020 U-18 Men's Softball World Cup.

Following the U-18 Softball World Cup, one of his assistant coaches, David Metekingi, was named head coach of the U-23 Australian Men’s team.