SHERIDAN — When Shawn Kelley and his family moved to Sheridan in 2019, he looked for places for his daughter, Emerson, to continue playing fastpitch softball as she had in Bismarck, North Dakota. The problem: Sheridan didn’t have any fastpitch travel teams. It barely had any fastpitch rec squads.

So Kelley and his daughter spent the summer commuting three hours to Cody on the weekends so she could suit up for a travel team there.

Since then, softball has exploded in Sheridan on multiple levels. 

And Kelley has been part of the solution to the lack of teams his family faced when arriving in town. He helped get the Wyoming Mystix fastpitch travel program up and running and now coaches his daughter’s 12 and under team.

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