Softball Coach Cymantha Smelser is holding Softball tryouts November 9th and 10th (Monday & Tuesday) at the RRHS Girls softball field.  Time is 3:30-4:45.

All girls trying out MUST have a softball glove, tennis shoes or cleats (non-metal), water bottle, and proper dressing attire (shirt and shorts). All girls should arrive at the softball field dressed out and ready to tryout. To attend tryouts the student also have all paperwork and physical completed. 

All tryouts are closed. Only coaches and girls who are trying out are allowed at the field. 

We will be checking temperatures and maintain our social distancing during these tryouts. 

Please contact Junior High Head Coach Cymantha Smelser or High School Head Coach Zachary Thrasher if you have  any questions

Coach Smelser graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in 2009 and attended University of Louisiana at Monroe(ULM). While at Ouachita Parish, she played varsity softball where she pitched and played second base. She chose to not continue her softball career after high school because she wanted to start coaching. She is married to Jared Smelser (Riverdale Head Football Coach). 

She didn’t waste any time getting her coaching career started.  In 2009 white attending ULM she was the softball student coach, under the guidance of Head Coach Chris Eubanks, and Soccer student coach, under the guidance of Steven Dickman, at Ouachita Parish Junior High, as well as an assistant to a 10u travel softball team from 2009 – 2011. She was the student coach at Ouachita Parish High School, under the guidance of Head Coach Tim Whitman, from 2011 – 2015. From 2009 – 2016, she coached several rec league teams and took one little league team to the World Series in Delaware. In 2015, after graduating from ULM, she went back to Ouachita Parish Junior High School to teach and coach softball, under the guidance of Head Coach Chris Eubanks. In 2016, she took over as the head softball coach at Ouachita Parish Junior High School. In 2017, she transferred to East Ouachita Middle School (the sister school to Ouachita Parish Junior High School), where she was the head softball coach and the head soccer coach until she recently moved to Red River. She will be the Red River Junior High School head softball coach and Red River High School pitching coach. 

Smelser said “I enjoy challenging and pushing the kids beyond their comfort zone. Doing this takes their confidence to the next level. We may not be the best team on the field all the time, but when we take the field, we will think we are the best team! Confidence is everything!”