COLORADOTIGERS
14U Head Coach Oscar Almeida
Oscar's coaching career started with his son’s baseball team in 2006 in Broomfield. Through the year’s Oscar worked as an assistant coach on a couple competitive teams.
Oscar head coached the 12UB Tigers team in 2013-2014 season. Oscar is taking a core group of girls up to 14U level. He is a highly motivated coach that believes in building young girls character and softball skill. He supports this growth by having experienced college softball players on his coaching staff.
1st Year 12UB Head Coach April Martinez
April has coached for 23 years, 18 of those years in competitive and high school JV at Centaurus and Head Coach at Niwot. April has coached ages 10 thru 19. She has helped send several girls to college Division 1 through Community College. April played softball and basketball at the collegiate level. She loves to teach not only the skills of softball but how to be a good person on and off the field this includes, respect hard work, and how to be the best teammate you can be. Her passion and love for softball is what drives her.
Head Coach Tony Villani
Tony is the head coach for the 18A team. He was an assistant coach for the Tigers 16A National Champions.
14U Assistant Coach Lindsey Spendlow
Lindsey just wrapped up her first season of coaching for the Colorado Tigers organization and we are thrilled to have her back. Lindsey started her softball career at the age of four. She began her competitive career when she was 10 and has been playing ever since. She attended Erie High School and played softball for Bob Bledsoe from 2006-2009. With the Erie Tigers she won State in 2008 & 2009, and was a part of the tigers runner up team in 2006. She was awarded Academic All-State during her junior and senior years. During her last summer of competitive she was recruited to go play college softball and left CSU to go to Colorado Northwestern Community College, a division 1 junior college. Lindsey’s first year at CNCC she was the starting shortstop and was in the top of the conference for bunts and during her second season she moved behind the plate to catch. After tearing her meniscus she decided to hang the cleats up and lace up her coaching shoes. Her main focus is for the girls to grow as a team and as individuals in all aspects of the game. Teamwork and hustle are her number one expectations and she uses her experiences from playing in every aspect of her coaching. Lindsey believes that academics are an important aspect of every girl’s softball careers and is essential to prepare the girls for the recruiting process.
