News & Announcements
When: December 21st 9:00am - 11:00am
Power Surge Winter Tryouts
Power Surge will be holding winter tryouts for all teams, 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U, & 18U at our Hickman fields. Tryouts will run from 9am - 11am. If you have questions, please contact Scott Berndes (berndess@aol.com)
Power Surge Organization Tryouts will be for All Power Surge including the Walling teams and non-Walling teams.
If you are planning on attending, please complete the tryout form
Congratulations to Galilea Pedraza-Payta for committing to the American International College
Power Surge is very proud of our Power Surge Rivers/Rae 10u team winning their first ever tournament this past weekend. Build from the bottom up. We certainly have the right team to do that. Congrats team.
Power Surge the Organization does huge Golf Fundraiser and brings in funds to upgrade our great Four-Field Softball only Facilty.
Power Surge Muren wins another Championship winning the Spooktacular tournament in San Diego going undefeated.
Power Surge's Sofia Mujica rounding 3rd after a big home run for the USA Junior National Team in the International Games in Dallas, Texas.
Power Surge 18U - Gold is proud to announce 2 top players committing to Chico State.
Congratulations Annika Isaacson & Lindsey Hubbard
16u pitcher wanted high level or high potential
Power Surge Berndes/Mujica
Competitive team in all the big Showcases and Tournaments
Fall 2024
Early Thanksgiving Showcase
OnDeck Invite
Las Vegas PGF Showcase
NIT Showcase
Summer 2025
Colorado Power Pools
Top Gun Invitational Kansas
Ronaldo McDonald Showcase Texas
TC National
Zoom Into June Sowcase
PGF Nationals
Power Surge 18Gold team 2024 all players received Division 1 Scholarship.
Players do not have to make weekday practices. Weekends events yes.
Recruiting Coordinator has a great Rolodex of college coaches
Please contact berndess@aol.com
Another Big Day at Power Surge Tryouts. Our turnout was huge. We added 6 new teams with the 150 or so players wanting to join Power Surge. Thank you for your interest in Power Surge.
Ella Haugo commits to Cal State San Marcos
When Ella's team joined Power Surge last fall, on the top of her college list was Cal State San Marcos. Well Ella, you earned it! Big thanks to Coach AJ, brand new head coach at Cal State San Marcos, with one of his first picks. You're getting a great young person and athlete.
Congrats Ella!
University of Washington and USA Olympic Team Head Coach Heather Tarr came to watch our Power Surge Berndes 12u team play our first PGF 2024 Nationals game today. Here she is speaking to our team after the game. Hope she liked some of our players.
Cal State Northridge, U. Montana, LMU, Cal State Fullerton, Cal Baptist, U. San Diego, San Diego St., Whittier, U. Nevada, U. of Redlands, Cal State San Marcos, Baylor, Cal State San Bernardino, Azusa Pacific
Camp will be run by some of the top college coaches in the nation.
Camp will take place at Long Beach City College.
The coaches from these great softball programs will be on the field running a college exposure & skills camp, they will be teaching college level fielding, hitting and pitching techniques. They will be evaluating players skill sets during the camp. The camp will run from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. For more info click the register button.
Open to players 13 years and up.
Very excited about Katie finding a new softball home! Northern Colorado University has a rich history in softball and an amazing coaching staff.
Way to go Katie!
New home for Ya Ya!! Chico State is getting an amazing young lady. Thanks Coach Angel!
Great job
Doing great
Our Power Surge's Sophia Ramuno committed to the University of Washington from the transfer portal. Very impressive.
Meet June's Member of the Month, Jeremy Sterling of Power Surge 2030! 🏆
He became a coach to help out his oldest daughter's team, and believes he wouldn't be the coach he is today without his athletes' love for the game.
Power Surge 18Gold travels to Portland, Oregon to qualify for PGF Premier Nationals. They went undefeated in the tournament.
Power Surge Berndes 12u goes undefeated in becoming Champions of the Red, White, and Blue tournament in Mission Viejo. 7-0.
Power Surge hosts UC Santa Barbara Camp at our San Diego facility. 70 players strong showed for a chance to be seen by the coaching staff of that beautiful school on the Pacific Ocean.
Power Surge and The Line Training hosted a College Recruiting Camp yesterday at our Power Surge facility. Great turnout with over 100 players and 25 College Coaches. I'm sure our players turned some College coaches heads and now are on their way to a College Scholarship.
Three Power Surge players make 1st Team All-CIF San Diego
Mya McGowan Poway
Caylene Nguyen San Marcos
Natalie Lazano Otay Ranch
Power Surge Berndes 12u wins Berth to Alliance Nationals going undefeated this past weekend. 51 hits in 4 games, a hitting machine.
Power Surge the Organization showed a huge presence at a recent San Diego tournament. It's not often our born and raised San Diego Power Surge Organization gets to play local. The nature of our sport is most activity is North of here.
Power Surge Hammond wins another championship, Carlsbad Mothers Day Tourney. This 11u team keeps beating the older girls and winning Championships. Here the team is with their mothers on Mother's Day. Great picture.
Power Surge's Remi Spangler makes 12u All-American USA games in Oklahoma City. We are so proud. Doesn't hurt to throw over 60mph as a12 year old.
Power Surge dominates AFA Tourney in San Diego this Weekend. Power Surge Hammond won the 12u Division and Power Surge 2028 won the 14u Division. Oh, and they beat the Power Dark Team in the final.
Congratulations to Cheyenne Sterling for earning the Alliance Player of the Month award.
The Alliance Fastpitch proudly announces Cheyenne Sterling (2030) from the Pacific Coast Fastpitch League (PCFL) as Player of the Month for her remarkable play in March 2024. Cheyenne Sterling, a versatile player for Power Surge Sterling 2030, excels in multiple positions—Outfield, Short Stop, Pitcher. Her March stats include a .455 batting average, a .455 OBP, and 5 singles.
Power Surge Q 12u traveled out of state to Arizona to try to qualify for PGF Nationals in July. Not only did they qualify but they went undefeated and earned a top tier Premier Berth. Power Surge Q becomes the 6th Power Surge team to be so honored. Not many Orgs can say they have 6 qualified teams for the top national tournament.
Power Surge Dark Mujica/ Mora 14u wins AFA Tournament going undefeated. That's away to gel and win.
Sponsor OnDeck Softball along with Power Surge Softball will be hosting an Elite12u Tournament. This is an Invite Tournament and will feature the top 12u teams in the west. The tournament will have some very unique features with Box Bracketing followed by Double Elimination, 5 Inning Games, and no Warm Ups between innings. It will make the already fast paced game of Softball even faster. The tournament will take place at the San Diego Hickman Power Surge Fields with its newly finished 11 million dollar project redo.
Sofia Mujica made the USA Softball Junior National Team. The Senior from Granite Hills High School is on her way to play college softball at UCLA. Sofia was the only California player to make the USA Junior National Team. This is an opportunity of a lifetime, to see the world , play the best of the best players, and the next step could be the the USA Olympic Team.
We are so proud!
Power Surge 10u, 12u, 14u, 16u, will be attending PGF Nationals in Huntington Beach, CA in late July. This is the top of the top Nationals. We are very excited to have this opportunity.
Scott Berndes is a legend in the game and at 72-years-old he jokes: “I feel like I am coaching against my grandchildren sometimes!” A former DI pitcher, Coach Scott has been leading fastpitch teams for 28 years and says the turning point came when he was coaching his daughter in rec ball and thought it “was a joke… ‘Oh well,’ I thought and then I med Federal Judge John Hargrove—the guru of rec ball coaches and my mentor. He got me hook, line and sinker.” The San Diego-area club coach also oversees one of the few travel softball organizations that run their own four field facility. “We mow. We fix sprinklers. We schedule it. We host our own tournaments,” Berndes explains. “Rachel Garcia does hitting and pitching lesson at our fields and we also have the nationally known Powerhouse Mechanics Pitching Academy that runs out of fields. Coach Scott has had over 140 players make it to the next level—with a balance of many going to Power 5 schools while others heading to Ivy League programs. One of his peers commented: “We all admire Scott for his longevity in the sport and he has historically been success in building up top teams
Another Champ for Power Surge. Must be the month of Champions. Our Power Surge Q team won the 12u Championship at the Calavera Chill Tournament in Carlsbad. Our Q team was an outstanding 41-9 this Fall.
Our Power Surge Christmas Champions, Power Surge Muren 12u. They just won the Christmas Classic Tournament here in San Diego.
Congrats and thanks for the Power Surge Christmas present
We at Power Surge are so happy to announce that Caylene Nguyen has verbaled to her #1 choice, Columbia University from the Ivy League. Caylene is and has been a top player in San Diego County since she was 10 years old. A definite D-1 Power 5 player. But she had her sights set on going to a high academic Ivy League University. What better place than Columbia University.
Congrats Caylene and family! You deserve it!
