Cheri Kempf is owner and pitching instructor at Club K, the
largest indoor training facility for female fastpitch softball players
in the country. She has taught and trained thousands of athletes at Club
K since 1991. Best known for her pitching expertise, she was a member
of a five-person panel assembled by the Amateur Softball Association
(ASA) and the United States Olympic Committee to develop universal
standards by which to teach fastpitch pitching.
Kempf has more than 30 years of experience playing and coaching
softball at all levels. In college, Kempf was a three-time All-American,
an NAIA Collegiate national champion, and a National Tournament MVP in
1982 with a tournament ERA of 0.00. She then spent four seasons with the
world-renowned Raybestos Brakettes, where her team was the ASA Women's
Major Level national champion in 1991 and 1992. In 1992 Kempf joined the
United States national team and went on to win the gold medal in the
World Cup in Beijing, China.
Kempf has been inducted into the NAIA Collegiate Hall of Fame, the
Missouri State ASA Hall of Fame, and the Missouri Western State College
Hall of Fame. A member of the Women's Sports Foundation and the NFCA,
she has done extensive motion analysis research with some of the top
biomechanists in the country and has coached softball for four years at
the NCAA Division I level. She also invented the Spin Right Spinner, a
training device used to teach the correct mechanics of the pitching
movement to softball and baseball pitchers, and an indoor three-on-three
softball game called “RIPS,” which is played with a specially designed
cage and fitted to indoor competition.
Kempf lives in Hermitage, Tennessee. Her favorite leisure-time
activities are boating, traveling, and visiting her family in Missouri.