News & Announcements

Power Surge the Organization continues being recognized by the top fastpitch nationals in the country by receiving two berths to PGF Nationals. Our Power Surge berths were awarded to our 10u Power Surge Mujica team and our 14u Power Surge Berndes team who finished 2nd at 12u PGF Nationals last year. 

Power Surge the Organization has received at least one PGF Nationals berth since the inception of PGF Nationals in 2009. We are very proud to be recognized as one of the top softball Organizations in the country. 

It has been a long process but after 6 years of planning and working out details the City of San Diego is moving forward with our project to improve the 47 acre Hickman facility. Very exciting!

It is a 5 Phase plan which we will start Phase 1 in July of this year 2020. We go to bid on the Phase 1 part of the plan this February. We decide on the bid by June and work begins July if all goes as planned.

Another Championship for our Power Surge young'uns PS 10u Mujica this weekend in a dominant performance. They went undefeated, scored 48 runs, and gave up zero runs.

Power Surge  the Organization will be sending eight of its  players who were picked by OnDeck College Recruiting Showcases to their Elite Jamboree Showcases. This is a huge honor as there will be as many as 100 top Division-1 college coaches there to evaluate the talent attending. 

Attending Players:

Sofia Mujica

McKenna Gieger

Susanna Pate

Addison Duke

Skye Williams

Irie Iapala

Callie Chistian

Ellie Zerr

Power Surge is so happy to announce our 12u Power Surge Chavez very good team just received a berth to PGF Premier Nationals the top of the top Nationals in the United States.  This is very prestigious! 

Power Surge Chavez was readying itself to hit the PGF Nationals qualifying road traveling to Las Vegas, Phoenix, Huntington Beach, to try to qualify for PGF Nationals. But they have been playing so well beating all the top teams in SoCal that the PGF people felt that they deserved an Invite Bid now.  Awesome! Saves our PS Chavez team a ton of money to not have to travel to try to get the PGF Berth and lets them prepare better for PGF Nationals.

They may be looking for a player or two to help them at PGF Premier Nationals. If interested please contact our PS Chavez team.

All of the PowerSurge coaches who have coached these two young ladies will tell you how great it is to coach them.  Go Dominican Stars!

Mike Fox one of the top coaches in SoCal has joined Power Surge the Organization bringing along his talented team with him. Having Mike Fox is a big feather in the cap for Power Surge. He is one of the most respected successful coaches in the area. 

Mike's daughter Kristie is the head softball coach at D-1 UNLV a two time National Champion and an All-American and his daughter Kelly was  a two time All-American and was the 2015 Softball Player Of The Year. 

We are happy to have Mike join us at Power Surge.  

BYU, SDSU, Loyola Marymont, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, Hope University

Power Surge  hosted its second College Recruiting Camp in as many week hosting over 200 players throughout SoCal and Arizona. Players represent many organizations throughout the area. I can tell you all players get a great look as these coaches are all Head Coaches or Full Time Assistants. We know of a few scholarships that were offered at the camps which is the ultimate goal. 

Please keep looking at this page and our website for future camps.

5 Sofia Mujica

21 Skye Williams

23 McKenna Gieger

27 Addison Duke

32 Callie Christian

60 Susanna Pate

Power Surge as an Organization has the honor of being invited to the Zoom Into June Tournament Organizational College Recruiting Workouts at Rosetta Canyon June 10. Only a few choice organizations have been invited and we are proud to be one of them.

Wow! Our first year Power Surge 12 & Under team of all 11 year olds traveled all the way to Tucson, Arizona, and is coming home the Champions of the Tucson tournament. You 11 year olds are not supposed to beat all those older teams, even one 14u team that played down.

Analesse 'Peanut'  Garcia was just honored by being selected the 6th best 2025 player in the country.  Peanut certainly deserved the lofty rating dominatimg the 12u  division last year as a young 11 year old.  She paced her Power Surge team to a 2nd place finished at PGF Nationals making the PGF All-Tournament team. 

Power Surge Walling/Perez are excited to announce Cheyenne Smith as a head coach for powersurge Walling/Perez 16u premier team. Coach Cheyenne brings incredible energy and experience to our 16u premier team. She’s the assistant coach at the University of the Southwest in New Mexico. She will also be assisting in training and practice of our 18u premier team. 

Abby Johnston (left) committed to Aurora University and Audrey Kull (right) committed to San Francisco State.  These two girls are best friends and have been playing softball together since they were 6 years old so it's only fitting that they both verbally accepted their offer on the same day.  

The Spartans and Gators are both getting a great student athlete.

Power Surge is very proud of you guys!

Walling / Perez 18U Pitcher/1st baseman and tremendous hitter. Zoe Fulks commits to Newman University! Zoe will study nursing and play softball for a fantastic softball program.

Very proud of one of our Power Surge alumni Hannah McEwen. Big week for her this week as she passed 200 career hits and her Arkansas Razorbacks won the toughest SEC Conference title today. Her team may be in the College World Series hopefully.

Congrats Allie Winovitch #44 for going 5 for 5 including a walk off grand slam to win semi final game In the 9th inning at the TCS World Series.  BTW, it’s her second walk off grand slam this tournament. 

Go Power Surge North! 

Our Power Surge tryouts recently were so successful we decided to add some teams to take care of the demand to play at Power Surge. Power Surge has added  6 new teams some at our main location Power Surge's Hickman 4-Field San Diego Complex and some to ourTemecula Linfield Christian  Power Surge Complex. Power Surge is also in the process of adding some teams in Orange County.  It is a healthy time for Power Surge for sure. 

These girls did amazing this weekend! Battled against mostly 07 teams, went 3-1 in pool play and 3-0 on Championship day! Scoring an average of 10 runs per game and only giving up 3 runs per game!Way to work together girls! Great things to come in the future for these ballers!! #PowerSurgeWorley #Powersurgesoftball #usssachampions

Power Surge the Organization went in force to Yuma Arizona this past weekend sending 10 teams. We had a great weekend winning two of the 4 divisions we played in. Results below:

10u
2nd PS Dudley
3rd PS Mo

12u
3rd PS Sandoval

14u
Champions Gold PS Armas
1st Silver PS Chavez
2nd Silver PS Miller

16u
Champions PS Berndes
3rd PS Strandberg

Champions Power Surge 12u Worley went undefeated 6-0 and won the Hemet Thanksgiving Tournament. That is PS Worley's 2nd championship this Fall.

Coach Scott Berndes Honored by ExtraInnings Softball Top 100 Rankings

23—Scott Berndes (Power Surge 12U)

Coach Berndes, a former D1 college baseball pitcher who started coaching softball when his daughters got old enough, has been a club coach for 22 years and he’s had tons of success with young players. He’s had 20 straight years of Top 20 finishes at Nationals, two national championships, a runner-up finish at PGF Nationals and two Triple Crown World Series titles. Some of the top players that have come through his program are Lisa Dodd (UCLA), Selina Ta’amilo (UCLA), Carlee Wallace (Auburn), Summer Hargett (Northwestern) and Hannah McEwen (Arkansas). “Play the best to be the best,” Berndes said. “I am not a Lou Holtz trying to downplay everything. I love a target on our backs as it means teams are trying to catch up with us. … Make practice fun. Do not replicate practices. Change them up. Make it interesting. Most practice should be station teaching. No standing around. … One of my goals and it challenges me every day is to make sure to teach something new every day in practice. Been doing this for 20 years, so it isn’t easy.”

Power Surge Mack 12u rolled through this past weekends Rancho Tourney going undefeated. 

Power Surge The Organization is adding 4 new teams for the upcoming 2020 Fall season and beyond. 

We are adding two 10u teams one based out of Santee and the other out  of Peninsula/Bonita Valley. They are advertising for players from all over San Diego to join them at tryouts August 8-9. 

Also adding is a 16u team and a combination 14u team of 06 and 07 birthdays. 

Come join us at tryouts August 8-9. 

Pretty amazing considering the times and having to sign up due to Covid precautions on number of players on a field. But it was an awesome Saturday of tryouts for Power Surge! Power Surge is up to 20 teams adding 4 new team. And added some great new coaches. It is a healthy Power Surge.

Power Surge dominates Yuma tournament winning both divisions that were offered, 10u and 18u. 

Power Surge Dudley won the 10u division going undefeated. 

Power Surge Berndes won the 18u division playing up two divisions as PS Berndes is a 14u team. 

Great job ladies.

Congratulations to the Power Surge 18U Gold team for being ranked 28th in the nation by Extra Inning Softball.  The hard work over the last 9 months is paying off.  Keep working hard as this is just the beginning.

Power Surge Berndes goes 6-0 and are Champions of Triple Crown Laughlin, Nevada, tournament. 

Power Surge The Organization had a successful PGF Nationals sending a whopping 9 teams to the Nationals. Not many organizations can match that total. Certainly here in San Diego Power Surge sent! far and away the most teams. 

Power Surge 18U Gold - Walling qualified for the Alliance National Championship this weekend while competing in the PCFL 18U Winter Championships in Lake Havasu this weekend.  The team went 3-2 competing against 4 nationally ranked teams. 

These kids can play!  

Congratulations to Walling/Perez - Armas for qualfiying for the Alliance Fastpitch Championship Series 2021 this weekend..  Way to represent!

Congratulations to our 18U Power Surge Gold team!

Congrats to the PS 12U - Worley team for going 6-0 and winning the 12U division in the Spring Fiesta tournament in Yuma, AZ this weekend.  

Way to go Power Surge!

Very busy day today at our Power Surge fields with two softball camps going at once. We hosted San Diego State as they ran a camp to take a look at our local talent. We also hosted Jason Iuli's Powerhouse Mechanics SoCal's Premier Fastpitch Training Program with pitching coaches from all over the country.

Power Surge 18U is proud to annouce Claire Sefkow has committed to Pomona College.  Congrats Claire!

Extra Innings

Power Surge at Monster Mash Tournament 

T-20 (23)—Scott Berndes (Power Surge)
Coach Berndes has led his San Diego-based Power Surge team for five seasons now and overall in his career has 21 years of coaching experience. You know you’re doing well when he says” “We finished 3rd in Colorado which was very good and 9th at PGF which was a disappointment.” That, because of the strong success historically for the program which includes ASA National Championships in 2009 and 2012 and no less than 13 other Top 10 finishes in nationals including PGF where the Surge took 2nd two years ago at 12U and finished 5th back-to-back years in 2016 and 2017 at PGF 10U Nationals. The current team, like teams of the past, have schools such as UCLA, Oklahoma, Duke, Arizona State and others following closely but that’s not unusual as Coach Berndes has placed 128 players in colleges over the years. “I’m proud that so many have gone on to the UCLAs and Harvards and are now doctors, lawyers and coaches,” he explains. “As for my coaching career, it is placing my many players with mostly free educations so they can move on to become great members of their communities.” On a personal note, compliments to the coach for being a great son who also is the sole caretake and provider for his mother who is 106 years old. “I am no young’un anymore,” he laughs, “she lived through two pandemics in 1918 and 2020, wore cardboard shoes to school during the depression of 1928 as they could not afford better and saw the invention of television, color television, World War I, World War II and on and on. She is doing great and we’re looking forward to celebrating her 107th birthday in 2022

Power Surge  Mujica dominates at the very large prestigious Triple Crown Presidents Day Showdown tournament. They went undefeated against some very good competition in winning the championship. 

Another Power Surge commitment.  Congratulations to Power Surge 18U - Walling/Wilson's Brianna Garcia for commiting to University of Redlands.

Congratulations Brianna!

Congratulations to Power Surge 10U Berndes!

Our outstanding 10U team went 5-0-1 and took home the championship at the NCS So Cal Sweetheart Classic this past weekend. This team is on a roll...

Congrats Team!

Congrats Kira

Power Surge Berndes/Trammell players with UCLA Head Coach Kelly Inyoue-Perez and Lisa Fernandez

Congrats Macy!

Congrats to the 14U Walling - Zottneck team for winning the Winter Classic in Las Vegas over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Congratulations to the Power Surge - Walling/Zottneck team for finishing 2nd in the AFA Holiday Toy Drive tournament.  

This team is on fire!  Congrats Team.

Congrats Ariya!

Power Surge would like to reintroduce the very successful Power Surge Berndes team as many of the former players and families have decided to get this talented great group back together. It's goals are to earn a great scholarship and finish their careers wearing the Teal proudly.  Past Finalist 2nd place at 12 PGF Nationals. 5th place twice at 10u PGF Nationals. Top 15 and Top 10 at 14u PGF Nationals. Champions Oklahoma, Las Vegas Champions many times. Triple Crown World Series Champions. Many more top finishes in its 5 years as a team.  Oklahoma, UCLA, Arizona, Stanford, Arizona State, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Tennessee, LSU, and more have contacted our team for future scholarship consideration.  We will play a combination of 16 and 18's to make sure and get our players in the right tournament in front of the most college scouts. And, of course, we will be a contender for some tournaments.

Congrats Savannah!

Congratulations to the 10U Power Surge Berndes team for winning the SWING into SPRING event. 

Susanna Pate

Power Surge has 5 players nominated for the very prestigious Nationally Televised PGF All-American Game. 

Sofia Mujica UCLA

Alex Riggs USD

Callie Christian UCSD

Mya McGowan 2025

Sophia Burmeister 2025

Please watch our Power Surge's Devaeh Crawford go to work on being the best she can be. 

https://youtu.be/4fVrTfLutTA

Power Surge is excited to announce another great college commitment. Susanna Pate, Coronado HS, has committed to play her college softball at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It has been Susanna's dream to play at a very high academic Ivy League school. Her dream has been fulfilled. We are so happy for her.

Power Surge Mujica 12u Champions of Tustin 12u Tourney. The PS Mujica team follows in the tradition of great young teams at Power Surge. They are an amazing 60-7 this year and are rated in the top 5 in the nation. Great coach, great players. 

Congrats ladies

Power Surge Berndes Champions of largest 10u tournament of the Summer. 7-0 and dominated. 

PGF up next!!

Congrats ladies

Power Surge Berndes Mini Mites all 11u team went up to Huntington Beach facing all the bigger tough 12u teams in SoCal for a berth to PGF Premier Nationals. They returned home to San Diego not only with the coveted PGF Premier Berth but going undefeated, a No-hitter, 26 runs 4 against. What a dominant performance!! And they are not supposed to do this at 11 years old!!

Callie Christian from Power Surge Berndes/Trammell has verbally committed to play her college softball at D-1 University of California, San Diego. Callie had many colleges pursuing her who offered Full Scholarships. But she choose UCSD. we at Power Surge are very happy is we can see play locally. 

Congrats Callie

Power Surge 2028 traveled out of state to Las Vegas, Nevada. They return home to San Diego Champions of the Las Vegas St Paddy's Day tournament. Undefeated and not really a close game as they dominated. Congrats ladies and many more Championships to come we think.

Parking lots full, bleachers full of excited nervous parents, and our Power Surge 4 fields full of future softball stars they hope. 

Over 100 potential players were strutting their stuff hoping to be selected to a Power Surge team. Was some great talent. Many were selected and many will move on to tryout for other organizations. The key is they keep playing the game they love!

Organizational tryouts for the fall 2022 have ended, but if you would still like to tryout, please contact the manager of the team you're interested in.   

Workers in hard hats and orange vests descended on the Hickman Fields today. The first fence was torn down. The first tree was removed. All to make room for the finally starting Hickman Fields Project. It's been a long time in the planning. Yeah!!

In 1 year we will have beautiful new parking lots, new bathrooms, sidewalks, etc.. no more dirt roads. You will be able to drive your cars to our fields and they won't get dirty.

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Finally our great facility at the Hickman Fields breaks ground and our 11 million dollar project has started. This money will cover a complete asphalt parking lot, lighting of the parking lots, two new bathrooms with concession stands. We are so excited. No more having to wash our cars after going to our fields.

We are so proud of Sofia Mujica as she will continue her softball career and education at UCLA. She will be a big factor at catcher and with the bat for UCLA. 

Undefeated and winning the championship game 12-0. 

Power Surge Hammond 10u wins another tournament. They are getting to be regulars on our Power Surge page as they just keep winning tournaments. They are 35-1 in 2023. This may be our best 10u team ever. We are hoping they can win PGF Nationals this year. We have finished 3rd and 5th three times. Let's bring home the Gold.

Would have posted earlier but had to get over the disappointment of not winning the championship. 

We Run-Ruled 4 of the 8 teams we played. 

We beat the champions Texas Hustle, there only loss. 

One more win and we were in the Championship. 

Batted .382 and had an ERA of 2.85

All that sums up we had a great tournament. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. 

Great year ladies!

Great job both teams. 

Congrats

Congratulations to Kenzie Nakasawa from the 18U Gold Power Surge team for committing to Creighton University.

Power Surge 10u Hammond and Power Surge 10u Gomez each won their respective divisions and were Champions. For Power Surge Hammond it was their second championship in the last two weeks.

Power Surge 2028 12u Freund went 6-0 to be crowned Champions of the February Frost tournament. Congrats Lasies. 

HUGE Day for Power Surge yesterday!!!! Yesterday was the beginning of Open Recruiting for Juniors in high school. And, man, Power Surge cleaned up. There wasn't a major college that did not contact one or our Power Surge players. From UCLA to Stanford, to Tennessee, to LSU, To Harvard. Was an amazing day. 

We even had two players sign with Cal State Fullerton. 

Younger coaches, this will be your players. Work hard, get good grades, play the right tournaments, WIN. That is the formula!

Power Surge Berndes/ Trammell is really kicking into gear this Fall winning one major SoCal tournament, the NIT Fireworks, and finishing 2nd in the PGF Shootout. 16 games in 9 days was hard to ask of the team but they persevered in great fashion.. 

In the PGF Shootout pitching and defense led the way. Power Surge is one of those lucky teams with three #1 pitchers. Check these ERA'S for the tournament; Alex Riggs at .73, Mya McGowan at 1.47 and Callie Christian at 3.50. Hard to beat a team with that kind of pitching.

Needless to say the college scouts are flocking to our games. 

Congratulations to Aiyana Curry from the 18U Gold Power Surge team for committing to Creighton University.

Big News Alex Riggs from Power Surge Berndes/ Trammell just commits to USD

For the past couple days Power Surge has been hosting the South Korean National Softball team at our Power Surge facilities. 

Hear they are pictured with our Power Surge Walling 18u team as they drove up to support them in a tournament at Rosetta Canyon. Very Cool!

Power Surge Mack 08 TCS SoCal’s Finest Champions! Perfect 6-0 outscoring opponents 55-8. Represent!

February Frost Champs going 5-0 outscoring our opponents 50-6. Also had our first over the fence HR’s with a total of 4 of them by 3 different girls.

Congraultations to the 16U Power Surge Walling/Zottneck team for finishing 2nd in the OC Turket Bash

Congratulations to Abby Steffen from the 18U Gold Power Surge team for committing to the University of Oregon.

Power Surge went to Arizona in mass. 11 Power Surge teams took the field to battle for a title and 2 of our Power Surge teams came away Champions. 

InIn the 10u Power Surge Hammond went 6-1 and came away as Champs. In the 16u division 16u Power Surge Mack went undefeated to win the Championship. 

Congrats ladies

Congratulations to Emma Urban from the 18U Gold Power Surge team for committing to Tarleton State University.

Power Surge Berndes had a great run at PGF Nationals finishing 2nd. We finished as the 2nd best team in the country. We were on National Television Live. Played in front of a huge crowd. It was certainly a great experience!

We at Power Surge are proud to announce that Power Surge has the most players verbaled or committed to D-I college scholarships with 20 of it's players.  This is 7 more scholarship offers than the closest organization in San Diego.

This list was taken off the softball website 'Flo Softball'.  Flo Softball lists only Division I scholarship offers

Power Surge hosted a very successful College Camp at our Power Surge fields this past weekend.  110 girls and 10 Colleges were in attendance plus OnDeck Recruiting Camps was there.  Great turnout.  We at Power Surge are very committed to getting our players college scholarships. We will support our players to the fullest and give them many, many opportunities with colleges. Not a bad idea if you are reading this and not a Power Surge player to give Power Surge a look.  We work hard for our players whether it be practicing, teaching, college recruiting.  Seven National Titles to our name proves Power Surge plays the best ball in town. We are the oldest Fastpitch organization in San Diego and have proven with over 130 players who have earned a college scholarship that we are the place to be!!

Power Surge is really stepping it up for College Recruiting. Power Surge has done recently a Camp at Cal State Fullerton. We are doing another Camp with UNLV. San Diego State Camp is on the horizon. We have had Cal State San Marco's and UC San Diego attend our practices. Many more of our practices will be attended by college coaches. Power Surge is really pushing hard for our players.  Hopefully all this hard work results in many College Scholarships for our Power Sure players. 

Power Surge was invited by the Cal State Fullerton softball coaching staff to go to their campus and workout with the coaching staff.  We will be able to show our stuff and get a great workout as well. We hope to do many more of these events to get our girls in the Power Surge Organization seen by college coaches.

We would like to thank Steve Walling our new Vice-president for setting this event up

Power Surge Berndes continues the fine tradition of dominating 12u teams at Power Surge.  They played their first games of 2019  in the Coastal Classic Tournament in San Clemente, Calif. It was a dominating performance going 7-0 scoring 68 runs and giving up 2. In Bracket Play we run-ruled every team and gave up no runs.

We are looking for great things from this team. We are heading to Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, and PGF Nationals this season. So should be interesting

Power Surge qualifies 4 of its players to attend the Nationally prestigious OnDeck College Recruiting Camp.  These are the most prestigious college recruiting camps in the country hosted by Derek Allister and his OnDeck Camps.  There will be more college coaches at these camps than any other in the country this year.  This is a tremendous honor to be selected to attend.

Audrey Kull 16u Rosetta Canyon Camp

McKenna Gieger 12u Rosetta Canyon Camp

Sofia Mujica 12u Huntington Beach Camp

Jessica Phelps 12u Fall Camp TBA

Power Surge Sends another team to PGF Nationals. Our 10u Power Surge team will be attending PGF Nationals along with our 12u Power Surge team.

We are hoping for more. Power Surge has had a least one team and many times more than one team represented at PGF Nationals since PGF's inception.

Power Surge Berndes went undefeated going 8-0 in winning the very tough Monster Mash Tournament. This tournament was huge with 74 teams many of whom were some of the best teams in SoCal. 

Power Surge Berndes 06 12u are the Champions of the very prestigious April's Finest Tournament. This  was a huge tournament of 47 12u teams many nationally ranked. This 11u team a year younger than all the teams they played won 5 games on Sunday in winning the championship. Great job ladies.

Power Surge Berndes 06 qualifies for PGF Nationals in first tournament qualifier of the year. Very impressive for a young 11u team in the 12u division. 

Power Surge Berndes/ Trammell wins the very prestigious 50-Team tournament held in San Diego. Power Surge dominated scoring 55 runs and giving up just 12. The pitching was amazing for the Surge with a 1.90 ERA and a team Batting Average over .400. And this was all against some of the top teams in the West. 

Congrats Ladies!