Jim Fontanilla

Today is World Autism Awareness Day! As a #specialeducationteacher I celebrate the unique strengths resilience and individuality of my students Let’s continue to build a world where every voice is heard and every learner is valued 💙❤️💛 #WorldAutismAwarnessDay

Your week 3 USCAA spring Athletes of the Week!

Coaching Tip: You want an opportunity? You have to earn it. #baseball #michigan #tips #player #coaching

Excited to be a Bear! 🐻 and be part of the Bloomfield College Softball Program Read to work and help build something special! Thank you to everyone at Stevens who made my time there memorable! GO BEARS! 🐻 🥎 #bloomfield #softballcoach

@RefObserver17 Brian Dorsey was my PE teacher!

🚨 Big Ten Saturday 🚨 Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Indiana Hoosiers 🏀 NCAAM 📍 Assembly Hall ✈️ Bloomington, Indiana 📅 1/17/2026 ⏰ 2pm EST 📺 FOX Referee : Brian Dorsey Official 1 : Verne Harris Official 2 : Luke Schumer

Husband, Teacher, Coach and now Father. #boydad

@ThatGuy__Kai Welcome to NY!

Coaches, Come check us out! We have some uncommitted 2026 & 2027 looking for a home #softball

About to start a golf team for @SONewJersey

🌟 Huge thanks to all our generous donors! Because of your support my students now have a calming, sensory-friendly, and welcoming space to learn, recharge, and grow 🌟 #donorschoose #specialeducation

It’s Dinger season for 2028 catcher McKenna Henderson! Clears 225ft over the fence! She will be great on any college roster! @SBRRetweets @CoastRecruits

Please help support my project for my students. If some don't know I’m not only a softball coach but a full-time #SpecialEducation Teacher working with students with #Downsyndrome Please read the summary below. Thank you 🙏 Donate: tinyurl.com/2thxknef

To my @NJFireFP 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ Team! Sept 1st is finally here! Coaches are ready to connect with you! Answer the phone calls and reply to emails. Be patient trust the process! You deserve this!

Opening Day for @UCFOOTBALLNJ on the roof top It’s about to be electric in one of the best places in the nation @MaxPreps #unioncity

“You have to practice and play and behave like a winner if you want to win games,” Kara Lawson Winning is a mindset not a scoreboard.

Recruits, travel coaches, parents of recruits, check this out! This is the 2025-26 NCAA D1 🥎 Recruiting Calendar. It may make no sense looking at it now, but I’m going to help break it down! Aug 11-Nov 23 (blue 🔵) is an evaluation period, meaning D1 coaches can evaluate you in SCHOLASTIC events (meaning high school practices/games, or even camps hosted by colleges). So, NOT travel ball tourneys EXCEPT for 6 weekends in Oct & Nov. These 6 weekends in Oct & Nov are marked with a * small black asterisk * in corner on the calendar…AND only Sat & Sun are open for recruiting. In other words, if you’re playing in an ‘exposure’ tourney in Sept, you will not see a single D1 coach. If you’re playing in a tourney on one of those select weekends in Oct/Nov where recruiting is allowed but the tourney starts Thurs or Fri, you will not see (or GET SEEN by) any D1 coaches until Sat/Sun. (Disclaimer: I’m not a believer in a ‘D1 or bust’ mindset - but you should understand what you’re signing up for.) Camps! D1 schools can host camps, but if it’s a camp at a tourney or through a travel team or private company, D1 coaches can only be there if it’s on Sat or Sun on one of those designated 6 weekends. 🔴 Red 🚫DEAD🚫 periods are sprinkled throughout the calendar when NO on or off campus recruiting can happen. Calls and texts CAN happen, but no in person contact. The 🟣 purple dates are recruiting shutdowns, a newer addition, when D1 coaches can’t email/text/call - they can’t even like tweets during those dates! Important to remember the difference between Dead and Shutdown. Sept. 1 is during a dead period = don’t worry 2027s coaches can call/text, but you can’t visit campus until the dead period is over. Nov 24-Dec 30 (🟤 tan on calendar) is a QUIET period = no D1 recruiting off campus. Camps hosted by colleges are cool, but that’s about it. Jan 3-May 25 (in blue 🔵) is that rather misleading evaluation period again…evaluation for SCHOLASTIC events only. High school practices/games, and camps hosted by colleges. No travel tourneys…there are NO dates from Jan-May when D1s can attend travel tourneys. There’s another 🚫DEAD🚫 period during the D1 WCWS in May/June but after that, we are in the 🟢 green 🟢 (think green = go) contact period from June 6-early August. (August is when the 2026 NCAA Calendar will pick up!) Contact period: D1 coaches can recruit just about anywhere: travel tourneys, high school games (yes, some states play HS during the summer), college camps and other camps hosted by tournaments, travel teams, private companies, etc. And, for select graduation years, D1s can actually have contact (talk face to face) off campus, like at the fields after your games. I hope this helps some people out there. I just think it’s important that people have accurate info when making decisions about what tourneys/camps to attend, I know it’s a lot of 💸 💸 💸

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Summer Season Complete

Coaches, We are back at it again this weekend competing @nightmarefp John Biasi Memorial Super 72 Showcase Come check us out!

Northern Exposure @USAElite_Jen was a success! Thank you to all the coaches who came out to watch @NJFireFP players compete 🔥🥎 @mitsoftball @hartwickSB @FramStSB @HunterAthletics @WestConnATH @RutgersNewarkSB @BayPathAthletic

There’s no secret to success. Just work ethic, consistency, and showing up—day in, day out. No shortcuts. No magic.