Meet Your Neighbor - Michelle and Leo Sheridan

Who are you and what do you do?

Michelle and Leo Sheridan and we are the president and vice-president of San Leandro Girls Softball.

What do you love about San Leandro?

We love the tight knit community,  anything you want to do,  people you want to know, you see them at one sport you see them at another, you see them in the coffee shop. It's just wonderful to have such an tight knit feel to a community.

Girls softball is a brand new league, why was that need?

We have an 8 year old daughter we have been coaching her in soccer and in softball and we have seen there are no girls sports in San Leandro. We have had tons of interest. People came up to us as say "Why don't we have girls sports in San Leandro?" We totally agree, why don't we? So we decided to start a league.

When will it start, When can you sign up and is there a Facebook page and Web site.

LEO - Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/Sanleandrogirlssoftball and website is http://www.sanleandrogirlssoftball.com/

MICHELLE - Registration is open now, it opened on Friday. Opening day is March 4th 2016. Girls can register online until the middle of January. We will also have 2 or 3 registration sites available.

What are the Ages?

LEO - Girls from 4 to 14 of all playing abilities.

And a travel team?

San Leandro is the home of the Nitro. We are excited to do a competitive team. Usually competitive teams are after rec. So rec teams first, then have tryouts for the Nitro to bring a competitive team to San Leandro.

Fields Yet?

MICHELLE - No official fields yet, we have an unofficial home.

LEO - The city has been working with us and is helping to find us a home.

You are also very involved in the your girls school

MICHELLE - I am PTO president of James Monroe Elementary, Leo is Dads Club President. We have been doing that since our daughter was in kindergarten. Leo is also on school board.

LEO - We are very involved in the community.

MICHELLE - We just want to make our community better, we want to make it better for our kids, specifically girls because we do not have enough activities for them.

LEO - In San Leandro the Diamonds are dominated by boys, we don't have an equitable share of girls on these fields.

MICHELLE  - We want to give the Girls softball.

You also work in San Leandro?

MICHELLE - I work for Bank of the West, I am a security investigator. I have worked for Bank of the west for 15 years. Leo works at San Leandro Color so we are completely into the san Leandro community

Any words of Wisdom?

MICHELLE - It's super important for everybody to get involved. You hear in other communities that people like to complain, they want changes but they are not willing to man up and to really get involved. You have got to get involved, that is the only way you can make change. That's what Leo and I practice and preach.

Thanks you so much