Likely high school undergraduate recruits where invited to observe the Cerritos College softball program last Saturday.

“Well we had invited a few [schools] and through that we got some pretty good players that came out,” said head coach Kodee Murray.

The girls primarily came to meet with the softball women and see how Cerritos would do against No. 2 ranked Cypress Saturday afternoon.

“Well we’ve been recruiting and we invited the recruits because if you’re a top player, you’re going to want to look between our program and their program,” said Murray.

Murray described the Nemesis team, one that visited, as being a worthy program to look into because assets such as infielder Sammy Garcia have come out of the program to improve the Cerritos team.

Garcia coaches some of the younger girls from the Nemesis team that also came to learn about a future in college athletics.

She said players stayed after the game to answer any questions the younger athletes might have had.

“We were just introducing the program to these younger girls who are trying to play softball for college,” added Garcia.

Cecily Garcia, former Cerritos softball player and sister of Sammy Garcia, is now head coach of the 15 and under Nemesis team.

She set up the visit to Cerritos to prepare her team for their possible future athletic careers.

“We wanted to bring them in to show them what college life was while playing sports after high school and how far you can get with it,” said Garcia.

Garcia said trips like this one show “how much determination you need to [play for a college team], but that its within reach, and they can do it.”

“We actually go to different colleges and we ask the coaches if their players can meet with our players,” said Garcia.

Nemesis has previously been to Whittier College and Long beach State to see what life was like while playing sports after high school and how far the could get with it.

She added that one of her players is likely to come play for Cerritos from Warren High School because she has played with many of the current Cerritos team members in the past.

Murray added that while Cecily Garcia attended Cerritos they received a state championship and wanted to repeat the results with her younger sister Sammy Garcia this season; they’re well on there way to doing just that.