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 is now forming all-girl baseball teams for Baseball For All Nationals in 2025 and beyond.
LA Heat Baseball Inc. is a non-profit 501c3. We are fundraising to send two teams to Nationals this summer. Please contact us for details.
The LA Heat Team
Carly Mitchell – LA Heat Organizational Head Coach
Carly is head of player development and teams for LA Heat. She 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.
Keira Izumi – LA Heat Head Coach
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.
LA Heat coaches and volunteers include:
Mike Young – Young’s Baseball Training, Reggie Smith Academy, Canyon High School
Katie Firestone – University of Washington women’s club baseball alum
Paloma Benach – USA Baseball, Occidental Club Team
Arden Hittner – Baseball For All Ambassador
