Meet the Team
Fastpitch Power Core Team
Phil Schonberg
Founder and director of the softball training group Sound Shore Sports, Phil has been coaching and teaching all aspects of the fastpitch game for multiple decades. He is now one of the most sought after pitching instructors in the New York tri-state area. He runs large-group pitching and skills clinics, works with pitchers individually, and runs pitcher training programs for tournament teams as well.
Phil has trained the pitchers in many of the region’s top varsity programs, producing all-section high school pitchers every year in the last decade. Several of those pitchers have become NCAA recruited athletes.
Phil’s philosophy is very simple: provide a nurturing environment where students can grow as athletes, teammates, and human beings.
Jillian Stephens
Jillian Stephens (previously Schonberg), a former top ranked east coast NCAA pitching recruit, is Fastpitch Power’s head pitching coach and primary content creator. She graduated from New Rochelle High School and Villanova University. She played gold level softball with several teams including the Virginia Shamrocks and the Morris County Belles prior to college, and continued to play Division 1 softball at Villanova. She was a student in physical therapy at Harcum College in Pennsylvania, and is familiar with injuries, rehabilitation, and strength and conditioning. She instructs in Phil Schonberg’s pitching clinics and gives many private lessons in the Philadelphia area. Also, Jillian is now offering virtual lessons over Skype to clients who want to learn from us, but live in other areas. Jillian also runs all of the Fastpitch Power social media platforms.
Carly Schonberg
Carly, co-founder of Fastpitch Power, has spent most of her life immersed in softball, with 13 years of playing experience and over two decades of coaching experience behind her. She has been teaching windmill pitching and running Sound Shore Sports together with her father Phil since 2005, and she has coached various teams in New York and Pennsylvania at all levels: youth, tournament/travel, multiple high schools (JV and Varsity), and NCAA Division III at Chatham University. Carly brings a unique and informative perspective to her instruction, having learned from both her strengths and weaknesses as a player and coach. She is also Fastpitch Power’s web developer and technology advisor.
Fastpitch Power Certified Instructors
Lee Moss
Lee has been coaching and teaching all aspects of the fastpitch game for over 14 years. He began his coaching career in recreation t-ball progressing to A level college showcases leading Alabama Fury to the 2017 World Series title. Lee established Moose Fastpitch Performance along with his daughter Morgan where they give private pitching lessons in the Florida Panhandle. Morgan currently plays Division 3 softball at Huntingdon College. Lee has studied forearm fire extensively with Coach Phil and Coach Jill and has completed the Fastpitch Power Coach Clinic. His goal is to teach the best mechanics possible to deliver a softball with both speed and command while remaining injury free. #justkeepshowingup lee-dustie@hotmail.com
Chris Little
Chris Little has been coaching and teaching softball to some extent for the last 10 years. He started coaching when his youngest daughter wanted to be a pitcher at 5. While Chris was learning everything he could about fastpitch to help his daughter succeed, he learned about Internal Rotation and loved the “attention to detail” that the technique follows.
Chris started watching Coach Phil’s YouTube videos and immersed himself in the technique and mechanics. Chris daughter; Ada, started pitching with Coach Jill when she was 10. Ada plays for Tennessee Mojo-Gregory 16U; they won the 2022 14U Power Pool Championship at the Colorado Sparker and are followed by many Power 5 and D1 schools.
Chris gives private lessons in Georgetown, Kentucky and is the pitching coach for the Scott County High School Softball Team. cslittle723@gmail.com
Former Contributors
Joe Bonyai
Joe, Fastpitch Power co-founder and writer of our strength training programs, specializes in the development of training methodology and program design for Fastpitch Power and Empower Athletic Development. Joe completed his Master’s Degree in Strength and Conditioning from Springfield College and graduated magna cum laude from Gettysburg College with a degree in Health Sciences. At Gettysburg, Joe was a four-year starter on the baseball team, setting the school records for single season hits, and total career hits and runs batted in. Joe was selected to the All Centennial Conference First Team three times, conference Academic Honor Roll three times, and was selected as a Second Team Academic All-American in his senior season.