Bring your most courageous self to COMPETE.
Our mission
Our mission has always been to use softball as a platform to teach valuable life lessons and skills that will lead athletes to successful adult lives far beyond their playing years.
Meet Lacey
Be inspired by our founder, Lacey Ingram, to bring your most courageous, authentic self to compete and see your athletic skills flourish in epic ways.
Lacey brings forth more than twenty years of PITCHING knowledge both through private instruction, team coaching and team consulting. In 2024, East Cobb Bullets Fastpitch Organization brought Lacey on as the Director of Pitching for the organization.
She has coached and assisted an abundance of pitchers in transitioning to all collegiate levels of play, earning softball athletic scholarships to many conferences around the country including more than a dozen pitchers to the ACC, BIG 10, PAC 12 and SEC. Pitchers who have trained with Lacey have competed in the NCAA Div I Women’s College World Series and Olympic Trials. For a detailed list see our Student Success Page.
Meet Chandler
Meet Chandler Dennis, LevelUp’s newest PITCHING instructor. A former student of Lacey’s from the young age of 11. Graduated Georgia Tech May 2024. She transferred in from The University of Michigan where she played her Freshmen and Sophomore seasons. Chandler is an inspiration to all that meet her. Chandler lost her hearing in High School and is now on a cochlear implant. She is the walking example of resilience. Check out more about her story here.
Awards and Honors
2023 All-ACC Academic Team
2022-23 ACC Academic Honor Roll
ACC Co-Pitcher of the Week (March 29)
2022 All-ACC Academic Team
2021-22 ACC Academic Honor Roll
Graduated from North Gwinnett High School (2019) … Named a FloSoftball High School All American (2017) … Three-year All-State honoree (2016, ’17, ’18) … Named Gwinnett County Pitcher of the Year as a senior (2018); four-year All-Gwinnett County selection … In 2016, named the Georgia Diamond Club Player of the Year, Georgia Dugout Club Player of the Year and Gwinnett Daily Post Player of the Year … Helped lead North Gwinnett to a Georgia state championship as a sophomore (2016) … Posted a 62-15 career record, including a 16-2 postseason mark, with a 1.04 earned-run average and 603 strikeouts; also posted a career .408 batting average … Holds school records for career doubles (26), career wins (62) and season wins (21) … Played travel ball with the East Cobb Bullets … Rated the No. 29 prospect by FloSoftball and No. 16 by Extra Inning Softball … Enrolled in the School of Kinesiology at Michigan; undeclared major … Mother played softball at Furman University (1988-90) … Grandfather played football for Georgia Tech during the Bobby Dodd era on the 1951 undefeated team and the 1952 Sugar Bowl winning and National Championship teams … Has one older sister.
Notable honors of Pitchers who have trained with Lacey:
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2023 & 2024 All Conference Selections to All SEC, All ACC and All PAC 12 Freshman teams
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2020 International Olympic Qualifier participants
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NCAA All-Conference players and NCAA All-Americans
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Finalist for Div. II NFCA Pitcher of the Year
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NFCA All Americans
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Numerous Georgia High School Assoc. State Champions, Pitcher of the Year award winners and All Region Pitchers of the Year selections.