Director
& 16u Head Coach

Ken Hans 
In late August 2020 Ken Hans emerged as the new director of the Jersey Girls Fastpitch Organization. Armed with decades of on-field experience, Ken is striving to be impactful in the ever-evolving future of youth softball. Out of the gate he has initiated a “RELOAD” approach, with a strong emphasis on fitting the organization together with the right “Players”, “Parents”, “Coaches” and “Admins”.

Ken achieved a distinguished collegiate baseball career at Iowa’s William Penn University (1979-1983). His interest in softball was first realized as a postgraduate men’s fastpitch standout. The transition into baseball and softball organizational development was an obvious and natural progression.

In 2007 Ken founded the NJ Yellow Jackets Baseball and Lady Yellow Jackets Softball. Although very successful as a whole, Ken’s greatest achievements occurred on the softball side of the house. After two previous second place finishes the Lady Yellow Jackets secured a 14U National title in 2010. The Lady Yellow Jacket organization placed in the top 10 three other times during Ken’s tenure with the organization. Ken has over 30 career tournament championships in his coaching career.

​Following a brief retirement Ken made his way back onto the field in 2013 with the North Jersey Rangers. He has impacted players from 12U-23U and has seen many of them excel at the Club, High School, D3, D2 and D1 levels. 

Now with the Jersey Girls Fastpitch Organization Ken is dedicated to a fiscally responsible approach in producing a canvas of opportunity, learning and competition, which will unleash your players maximum potential.  
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18u Head Coach/12u head Coach & Board Member

Alicia Regnault 
Graduated from Juniata College with a degree in instructional technology and educational studies. Alicia also minored in communication. She was the starting catcher and outfielder at Juniata College from 2014-2018. Alicia was also awarded during her sophomore-senior seasons the NFCA All-American Scholar Athlete award. In addition to making deans list with a GPA over a 3.7. She helped deliver her team during her junior year to the conference tournament. Alicia was also admitted into the Juniata College Softball Hall of Fame record book for career walks up at bat. While not at softball Alicia started her college's first project management team for the on campus technology solutions department. 

After Juniata, she continued her studies to obtain her masters from Kent State University in educational technology. During that time she coached the College of Saint Elizabeth softball team now known as SEU. Alicia created the first softball winter clinic for the college to host and develop players where they got over 50 girls to attend. A huge accomplishment that Alicia had was being able to recruit one of her first players for CSE from California and getting her to commit to the school within months of getting into contact and watching her play virtually.

Alicia has also been working for softball facilities and teams across NJ developing their skills one on one or in group settings. She ran winter clinics for 3 high school softball teams in Nj individually based on what they needed to work on. She also coached travel softball with In The Zone and now Jersey Girls. On the side, Alicia provides athletes with private hitting and fielding lessons to enhance their skills. 

In addition to Alicia head coaching the 18u and 12u Jersey Girls teams, she is also the Head Softball Coach at Union County College for the 2021-2022 season while also working as a technology specialist in Hoboken NJ. 

BOARD MEMBER 

18u
Assistant Coach
Maureen Kleczkowsi
Maureen brings 12+ years of direct coaching experience at all levels to this organization. She is a former college player, pitcher and currently stills plays competitively.  

She also brings her expertise as a Certified Tincher Pitching Instructor to the Jersey Girls.   This certification requires a minimum of 70 hours of training and continuous education is required in order to keep this Certification current.  Tincher has the highest number of D1 commits out of any pitching organization.  Tincher instructors are located throughout the United States as well as Canada, the Netherlands and other countries.  

Maureen focuses on injury prevention and correct body mechanics, not only in pitching but with all aspects of the game.  She has run various softball leagues and clinics throughout the tri-state area. She has had success both at the coaching and playing levels and brings decades of experience to the organization.  

She is a member of the American College Athlete’s Hall is Fame.  Maureen’s 12U team finished 3rd out of 68 teams at Nationals.  She has multiple championships from 8U on up.  Maureen also holds a Gold Medal from the NJ Senior Olympics 2019 as a pitcher which helped her team secure a berth in the National Senior Games. She looks forward to next year’s games in Florida and helping rebuild the Jersey Girls organization. 
Jennifer Tinger
Jennifer has played softball since she was 7. She played on many teams since then but in high school played on Edison angels 14u, Carteret kraze 16u, jersey girls gold 18u, and Colonia cyclones 23u. Jennifer has played varsity softball at Arthur L Johnson all 4 years. In college she plays 3rd base and shortstop. Currently plays at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ and is going into her junior year this year. Jennifer is double majoring in Elementary education and English with a minor in special education and art. 

​She comes to Jersey Girls being able to effectively improve ones infield abilities  while also knowing how to teach slapping and proper stealing to increase offense. Jennifer brings a positive outlook and keeps team moral high at all times.  


14U
Head COACH

Niki Maffettone
Niki started her softball career being on the first 10u team of the East Coast Tsunami, and played there until moving to Clifton Cobras at 16u. She played as the varsity catcher for 4 years at Cedar Grove High School. She then went on to play at Moravian College (now Moravian University) from 2013-2017. While at Moravian, Niki helped deliver her team 2 Conference Championships and a Regional Championship. She graduated with a bachelors in Sociology with a track in Law and Societies, and a minor in Peace and Justice Studies. After graduation, she joined the Peace Corps and lived and worked in Ukraine from September 2017- November 2019. 
She joins the Jersey Girls family with the ability to help our girls properly execute their defensive and offensive fundamentals, work hard, and ultimately become respectful and successful athletes and teammates.