Husband and wife Ed and Chari Naudin have a great dynamic together; both have years of coaching in travel ball with great results and have a fun conversational rapport between them.

This is Brentt Eads of Line Drive Media… I’ve known the Naudin family for decades and here’s proof: coming up to 13 years ago I profiled the family when I worked at FloSoftball.

Click HERE for the link to that article which, among other things, touches on their experience almost 20 years ago of being on the “Trading Spouses” TV show as a family!

On the softball side, Ed coached in the Texas Glory program for years and he won an impressive four national championships including one in the 2023 Alliance Tier 1 16U nationals.

Their daughter Chanin would go on to play at Kansas and among the long list of future college greats Ed would also coach greats like Lauren Chamberlain, an All-American at Oklahoma.

In 2023, Ed transitioned to another top club org in the Lone Star State, the Hotshots, where he took over the role of the Dallas/Fort Worth Director of Player Development and where he works today.

Cheri moved from a decade in club coaching to starting the successful Collegiate Sports Advocate (CSA) company which has helped close to 800 high school-aged athletes get recruited and move on to play at the next level.

Here is a 15-second video produced earlier this year showing some of the many colleges her student-athlete clients are going to:

Last month, I was in the Dallas area and was fortunate to meet up with Ed & Cheri at their beautiful home in Princeton, Texas.

We sat down and they graciously allowed me to interview them on all things softball… here’s that interview which was so fun to record!