Helping Pitchers Realize Their Full Potential

Get personalized one-on-one training to improve technique, build speed and accuracy, and take your pitching to the next level.

Meet Aly Bermudez

Aly Bermudez has quickly become the pitching coach of choice in Florida since moving down from Boston in 2021. Coach Aly's obsession with softball pitching along with her passion for mentoring and enthusiasm for teaching makes her an incredible instructor. Along with holding a Tincher Pitching certification, Aly studies with a movement/speed expert and works with some of the best pitching coaches in the country. Aly offers private lessons in Sarasota, group lessons in Fort Myers, along with virtual lessons. Aly works with youth, high school, and college pitchers who play at the elite level. She provides a fun and focused learning atmosphere and customizes training for each athlete.

Aly's approach to teaching pitching is unique and is based on natural body movement and movement patterns recognized in all elite level pitchers. After learning and teaching “old school pitching” and even the “new way of pitching”, Coach Aly is always digging for easier, better, and more efficient ways to approach pitching. Although her style is unconventional, it has proven to be easier and more effective.

Coach Aly measures her teaching success based on the pitcher's feedback - if it feels better and makes sense, we are improving. Aly encourages her pitchers to ask questions and give feedback as it helps her to help them. Coach Aly encourages her pitchers to take ownership for their development by requiring they bring a notebook to lessons and to keep notes on their favorite drills, cues, what's working and what's not, and to take notes after games. Coach Aly makes herself available as much as possible to her students and their families to contact her with video, questions, and updates as much as possible. She uses the OnForm app as an aid to send video feedback and instruction to her students.

Aly is currently the head coach at New College of Florida and has made many connections across Florida and other parts of the country with college coaches, helping her to advocate for her pitching students and get them recruited. 

My Story

Since I first started playing softball at five years old – I have been obsessed. As a kid, I always had a ball or bat in my hand, practicing in the yard or inside the garage during the winter. I played high school and elite travel ball, eventually advancing to college softball. Unfortunately my career ended early at the end of my sophomore year due to a shoulder injury that was caused by poor mechanics that I was taught. I’ve made it my mission to prevent pitchers from experiencing the pain, frustration and confusion that I did.

 

Hear From My Clients

  • I booked my daughter with Aly so my daughter will get a different coaching perspective; I have been coaching her as a head coach or as an assistant coach since she was in tee ball. Now that she is a tween it's been harder to coach her (parents, I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about!). As a USA Softball certified coach and former college baseball player, I was relieved to see that she spoke the same "softball language/lingo" that I did. Not only was I relieved, I was extremely impressed with what Aly knows. Aly really understands the techniques of throwing, catching, fielding, etc. and her teaching is consistent with what me and Aubrey's other team coaches have been teaching her (and Aly even gave me some great ideas to take back to our team's practices).

    But with any tween girl, it's not what you know they care about. My daughter doesn't care how much you know but rather wants to know how much you care. Aly is sweet, fun and a "big sister" type for Aubrey to emulate. She really bonded with Aly and the improvements she made in my daughter's technique after just one session was incredible. She helped build up Aubrey's confidence quite a bit and it was very noticeable at her team's next practice.

    One of the funniest moments was that she had my daughter do a drill that I have been doing with her forever. My daughter had never seen anyone to this drill before and she was convinced I made it up and had even refused at one point to do it any more. It was the first hitting drill that Aly did and now she recognizes the importance of that drill (and as a wiseass dad I made sure she knew I was right in having her do this drill all along)! By reinforcing the things that me and her team coaches have been telling my daughter all along Aubrey is a much better listener at her team's practice

    Aly is a top notch coach that will help your daughter improve in all areas. I give her my highest recommendation!

    –Eric

  • When I initially contacted Alyson, I was looking for a softball strength and conditioning coach for my 13-year old daughter. After the first meeting, I knew I would be asking Aly to work with my daughter for hitting and pitching as well.

    I couldn’t be more pleased. Aly’s energetic personality and straightforward approach put my daughter immediately at ease. Aly is patient and explains concepts well as she instructs. After only a few sessions, I developed great confidence in her ability to help my daughter improve where needed. After only a month of weekly sessions, I already see improvements in my daughter’s swing, power to the ball, pitching velocity, and overall strength. Just as importantly, Aly works on the mental aspect of the game and inspires my daughter to be confident in her skills and abilities.

    As a softball mom who wants to help my daughter achieve her goals and dreams, I am so glad we found Coach Aly. I can’t wait to see what’s yet to come!

    –Bethany

  • Aly is very knowledgeable with all facets of softball and has a great approach to coaching. My 14yo daughter is learning so much and looks forward to her sessions.

    –Kirk G.

  • My daughter Allyson has been working with Coach Aly for 6+ months now. We had to scramble to find someone after my daughters old coach literally disappeared without warning. As they say, everything happens for a reason. Coach Aly has helped my daughter immensely in a short amount of time. She is extremely hands on with Allyson and stops to show and explain the “why” not just the “how”. So, Allyson walks away from her lesson truly understanding not just the pitch, grip or whatever it was they were working on, but also the reasoning why it works. More importantly for me as a parent, she is teaching Allyson to believe in herself not just in softball but in life. She has become more than a softball coach, she has become her mentor, a life coach and I could not be happier. I see my daughter walking taller, showing more confidence and can speak her mind. As I said above, it is not just about pitching. You can see that Coach Aly genuinely cares about her girls.

    –Jason

  • Our daughter Ciara began pitching lessons with Aly in November, 2020. Ciara is 12 years old and this season will be her third year pitching at travel and club level.

    Aly is by far the best coach that Ciara has ever had. In the last few months, Ciara, already a capable pitcher, has blossomed. From a skills perspective, with Aly’s coaching, Ciara’s speed increased by 35 mph to 53 mph. Her placing has greatly improved and she now has a great change up.

    There is a soft skills element to coaching that cannot be measured and Aly also excels in this space. She has worked with Ciara to believe in herself and define and visualize success. She has faith in Ciara which has boosted Ciara to work even harder. Ciara recently joined Mass Renegades and Aly has been invaluable in helping her get integrated with and feel comfortable with her new team. Aly knows how to build collaboration and team spirit.

    Finally, Aly communicates very well with parents and keeps us in the loop regarding progress and expectations. We are delighted to see the bond and trust that Ciara has developed with Aly and could not be happier with her as a coach, mentor and role model.

    –Jeff

  • Alyson is a great coach for our high school daughter. We have struggled to find a softball coach through the years. We are extremely happy we finally connected with her. None of our daughter's instructors have had the complete package that Alyson offers; expert softball skills (pitching, fielding & hitting), great role model, flexible schedule and great personality. I would recommend Aly to anyone looking for softball instruction. Our daughter has made a great connection with Aly.

    –Emma

  • Aly is the best coach I have ever worked with!! She's helped me improve so much in such a short amount of time. Her techniques are beneficial and easy to remember and she breaks everything down to make sure it's sticking. Aly makes it her goal to help you be the best athlete you can be and it really pays off. I saw more improvement after one lesson than I thought was possible for me. She's helped me with not only softball, but strength training and nutrition as well. I would definitely recommend working with her!

    –Zoe T.

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