ABOUT SOKO SOFTBALL
The #1 Softball Training & Player Development Facility in Wisconsin, Built for Softball Players Ready for college ball.
Soko Softball is a training facility in New Berlin, Wisconsin that was built exclusively for softball players and has never been anything else. There is no baseball program sharing the space and no multi-sport operation trying to serve every athlete who walks through the door. Every coach on staff played college softball, every piece of equipment in the building was selected for softball-specific development, and every session on the schedule is designed to make softball players better at their craft.
Coach Soko and Coach Fatime work with athletes ranging from youth players who are just getting serious about the sport to college athletes coming back for off-season development. Every athlete who trains at Soko Softball is evaluated individually and coached on a plan built around what she specifically needs to improve. Progress is tracked with real performance data from session to session so families and athletes can see what's changing instead of relying on how it felt in the cage or on the mound.
The facility is equipped with training technology that most softball programs in the Midwest don't have access to, but the technology has never been the point. The coaching is what over 600 families have trusted since 2023, and the results are what keep them coming back.
Why Wisconsin? Coach Soko grew up playing softball in the South where elite coaching, intense competition, and year-round development were standard parts of the experience. When Ian's military career brought her to Wisconsin, that same level of access and expectation for softball players didn't exist. Soko Softball was built to fill that gap so athletes in Wisconsin could train at the same level as players in Texas, Florida, and Georgia without leaving the state.
Our Story
Soko Softball was built from the ground up, literally. What started as a dream on a torn-up city field is now a 3,000 sq ft, softball-only performance facility in New Berlin, Wisconsin, attracting athletes from across the state and beyond with plans to expand nationwide in the coming years.
Founded by Lindsey "Soko" Sokoloski, a former NCAA D1 standout at UTEP and the #1 Toughest Player in the Nation to Strike Out, and Ian Inman, a 5x U.S. Army Champion, Special Operations Veteran, and certified Master Fitness Trainer, Soko Softball was built on the belief that female athletes deserve a facility designed entirely around them. Not a baseball facility with a softball afterthought. A real training center where the sport is taken seriously and the athletes are the priority.
As the facility grew and demand for pitching development increased, Coach Fatime joined the staff. A four-year college pitcher at Cardinal Stritch who led her team in innings pitched and strikeouts every season, Coach Fatime brought a level of pitching instruction Soko Softball didn't have before. With her on the mound and Coach Soko in the cage, athletes now have access to two former college players who coach hitting and pitching under the same roof with the same standards and the same commitment to developing the whole player.
From swing mechanics and pitch development to mental training, recruiting strategy, and academic accountability, Soko Softball prepares athletes for college ball and life beyond it. Our athletes range from youth players just picking up a bat to NCAA players coming back for off-season work. The tools are high-tech but the focus has never changed since day one: developing tough, confident, scholarship-ready athletes on and off the field.
