LA Heat Baseball started as a service project by Emma and Mia Sites. Their goal is to contribute to the growth of girls baseball by organizing clinics and events in their home town. The organization has grown and began forming all-girl baseball teams for tournaments starting with Baseball For All Nationals in 2025.
LA Heat Baseball Inc. is a non-profit 501c3.
LA Heat Head Coaches
Carly Mitchell – Carly founded the Women’s Club Baseball Team at Occidental College, and was an Associate Analyst for the San Francisco Giants. She has expertise in baseball operations, data analysis, data visualization, and business-process improvement. A lifelong baseball player, her primary position was pitcher.
Michele McAnany – Colorado Silver Bullets, CSUN Softball hall of fame, coach. Coach Mish is a true baseball trailblazer. She has years of experience coaching baseball and softball at a high level. Mish was the leadoff batter for the Silver Bullets, an all-women team playing against professional men’s teams in the 90’s, where she lead the team in on-base percentage and was second in hits, RBIs and batting-average. Playing softball at CSUN, she was a two-time all-American who led the team to DII softball titles in 1983, 1984 and 1985.
Keira Izumi – Keira started playing baseball at six years old in a local rec. league, and since then, she played travel and high school baseball, competing in both varsity baseball and softball in high school. Keira has been part of numerous MLBDevelops events, such as the Elite Development Invitational and Breakthrough Series. In the summer of 2024 she was invited to try out for the USA Women’s National Team. For the past five years, she has been involved with Baseball For All, playing in events like the Leighton Accardo Memorial Tournament, BFA Nationals, and even representing the United States in Japan at the first-ever PONY Girl’s Baseball World Series through the BFA Ambassador Program. Currently, she is a student at USC, where she founded the Trojans Women’s Baseball team. Keira was drafted into Women’s Pro Baseball League in 2025.
Brett Haber – Coach Brett has decades of experience as a baseball coach and has dedicated himself to the development of the sport and young athletes as a long time member of the board of directors at Chatsworth Junior Baseball League. In addition to baseball, Brett also played football and was drafted into the NFL, he played hockey and was a head coach and organizer for USA Hockey.
Tony Villa – Baseball player, Coach
Max Young – Baseball Coach
Sean Angell – Baseball Coach
LA Heat coaches and volunteers include:
Ali Haber – LA Heat Coach, Baseball Player
Mike Young – Young’s Baseball Training, Reggie Smith Academy, Canyon High School
Paloma Benach – USA Baseball, Occidental Club Team. Paloma was drafted into Women’s Pro Baseball League in 2025.
LA Heat Leadership
Nancy & Jeff Sites – Parents of Emma & Mia. Jeff and Nancy are the founders of LA Heat Baseball Inc, a 501c3 California Non-Profit. They do not receive any compensation for their work with LA Heat. The Sites family pays the same fees as all players.
