Worldwide Information: Crew USA Coaches Introduced for U-18 Girls’s Pan American Championship (Oct. 3, 2026) – Line Drive Media

Published On: October 3, 2026

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USA Softball has introduced the teaching workers chosen to information the U.S. U-18 Girls’s Nationwide Crew (WNT) on the 2026 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) U-18 Girls’s Pan American Championship.

Slated for November 21-28 in San Salvador, El Salvador, Kyla Holas will as soon as once more lead the U-18 WNT as head coach, joined by assistant coaches Alisa Goler (Texas State) and Tim Walton (Florida).

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Listed here are the bios of every of the trio of achieved coaches who will lead this crew subsequent month:

Kyla Holas

Part of the Junior Girls’s Nationwide Crew program since 2019, Kyla Holas will return as head coach of the U-18 WNT in 2026. Holas beforehand led the U-18 squad to a gold medal end on the 2025 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) World Cup Finals, marking her third World Championship title as head coach, whereas additionally securing a record-setting fifth consecutive World Championship for this system. Beneath her management, the U-18 WNT has not misplaced a single recreation since 2021 and at present holds a 48-game successful streak on the World Championship degree.

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Alisa Goler

At the moment an assistant coach at Texas State College, Alisa Goler will return to the U-18 WNT teaching workers after spending the 2025 season with each the U-15 and U-18 squads. Throughout the 2025 season, Goler helped lead the U-18 WNT to a gold medal on the U-18 World Cup Finals and the U-15 WNT to a bronze medal on the U-15 World Cup. Goler additionally spent the 2024 season with the U-18 WNT and served as an assistant coach for the WNT on the 2024 Japan All-Star Collection. Outdoors of USA Softball, Goler has spent the previous two seasons teaching within the AUSL, serving as head coach of the AUSL Blaze in 2025 and an assistant coach with the Texas Volts in 2026. She additionally served as head coach of the Western Illinois softball program from 2020-2026 and beforehand held assistant teaching positions at Penn State, Syracuse and Roosevelt College.

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Tim Walton

Tim Walton rejoins the U-18 WNT teaching workers following earlier seasons with the Girls’s Nationwide Crew and Junior Girls’s Nationwide Crew. Most just lately, Walton served as an assistant coach with the WNT on the WBSC Girls’s World Cup, serving to the crew earn a silver medal. He additionally helped lead the WNT to gold medals on the 2022 Girls’s World Championship and 2023 Pan American Video games. Previous to his tenure with the WNT, Walton served as an assistant coach with the JWNT in 2015 and 2019. On the collegiate degree, Walton enters his twenty second season on the helm of the Florida Gators softball program, the place he has compiled a 1,082-267 (.802) file in 21 seasons. Total, Walton owns a 1,205-331 (.785) file in 24 seasons as a collegiate head coach.

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Most just lately, the U-18 WNT competed within the WBSC World Cup Finals the place they earned the highest spot on the rostrum with an ideal 6-0 file.