Out of the box
The first two steps
On a sixty-foot path the play is decided immediately. A trained first step is worth more here than top-end speed a player never gets to use.
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Softball speed training in the metro-east
Sixty feet is decided out of the box. Elite Speed coaches the footwork and running form underneath it, with a girls’ class built for female athletes.
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[ 01 ] Sixty feet
Is there speed training for softball players in the metro-east?
Elite Speed trains softball players in Granite City, Illinois, and runs a Girls Speed and Agility class built around female athletes. The work is footwork, running form and the first three steps, which for a softball player is the jump out of the box, the read off the bat, and force out of the ground.
The IHSA has the Illinois high school softball state finals on June 4 to 6, 2026 at the Louisville Slugger complex in Peoria. Everything that decides those sixty feet gets built in the months before it.
Travel softball around here is enormous and it eats the whole calendar. Fall ball, winter workouts, a high school spring, then a summer of tournaments. Somewhere in all of that nobody ever taught the athlete how to run. That is the part Elite Speed does.
Sixty feet is less forgiving than ninety
A shorter base path means the play at first is over before anyone reaches full speed. Out of the box is everything. The short game only works if the feet are already moving. A catcher’s pop time is footwork before it is arm strength. And in a short outfield, a bad first read leaves no room to recover. Every one of those is a movement problem, and movement is coachable.
A class built for girls
Boys, Girls and Youth Coed Speed and Agility are three separate classes at Elite Speed, not one coed program with different labels. The Girls Speed and Agility class runs $30 to $120 a month and it exists to put female athletes in a room where the coaching is aimed at them. Groups run 1 to 15 athletes, ages 13 and up, so a coach can actually watch your daughter and fix the one thing holding her back.
Players come to this building from Granite City, Edwardsville, Collinsville, Belleville, O’Fallon, Glen Carbon, Troy, Maryville and Alton, and they train on indoor turf, so February does not cancel anything.
[ 02 ] Out of the box
Where softball players lose ground
Three moments carry most of the speed in this game, and all three are footwork before they are anything else.
The read
First move on the ball
Short outfield, hard contact, no time. Body control out of the ready position is what turns a scramble into a routine play.
Force
It starts at the feet
A swing and a throw both begin against the ground. Lower-body coordination is where that power actually comes from, so that is where the coaching starts.
[ 03 ] Her own class
What the Girls class costs
Published, not quoted over the phone. The range moves with how often she trains, and a coach will tell you where she lands.
Girls Speed & Agility
$30 to $120
Per month
Ages 13 and up, groups of 1 to 15 athletes, coached in a room built around female athletes. Boys, Girls and Youth Coed run as three separate classes here.
Claim your free trialFirst session
$0
One full session
Start to finish, nothing to sign, and you watch the whole hour from the side of the turf before anybody pays anything.
See every program price[ 04 ] What she walks into
An hour she can see the point of
Warm-up, speed work, then a coach fixing one thing at a time. The first one is free and you stay and watch.
Dynamic warm-up
Every session opens the same way, and it is not filler. It is where hips and ankles get ready to work, and it is the piece most young athletes have never been walked through properly.
Speed and agility work
Footwork, running form, and the first three steps out of a stance. This is the block that shows up between the bases and on the first read, and it is the same block every athlete in the building runs.
One correction at a time
Coaches take time with each athlete to fine-tune technique. One girl, one thing, then the next thing. Groups stay between 1 and 15 so that is actually possible.
[ 05 ] Questions
Softball parents ask these
Is there a girls-only speed and agility class at Elite Speed?
Yes. Boys, Girls and Youth Coed Speed and Agility are three separate classes at Elite Speed, not one coed program under different names. The Girls Speed and Agility class runs $30 to $120 a month and exists to put female athletes in a room where the coaching is aimed at them.
Does speed training help a softball player?
Yes. Sixty feet punishes a slow start even harder than ninety does. Elite Speed coaches footwork, running form and the first three steps, which for a softball player is the break out of the box, the jump on a steal, the first read in the outfield, and the lower-body force behind a swing and a throw.
What ages does Elite Speed train for softball?
The Girls Speed and Agility class is built for ages 13 and up, in groups of 1 to 15 athletes. Younger players train in the general speed program, where coaches scale the work to the athlete. Elite Speed trains athletes from youth through high school and beyond.
How does this fit around a travel softball schedule?
Elite Speed runs a flexible membership rather than a season-long contract, so your daughter comes when the calendar allows. Miss a week for a tournament and nothing is lost. Training runs Monday through Thursday from 4pm to 9pm and Saturday from 9am to noon.
What does the Girls Speed and Agility class cost?
The Girls Speed and Agility class runs $30 to $120 a month depending on how often your athlete trains, and a single drop-in class is $30. The first session is free, so she can try it before anyone pays anything.
[ 06 ] Start here
Bring her in. Watch one session.
The first one is free and there is nothing to sign. You will see the drills, you will see the energy, and you will know inside an hour whether this is your spot.
5.0 from 11 Google reviewsFirst session $0From $30 a month