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PERFECT GAME NAMES HOLDEN SMITH
UPSTATE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Concord, North Carolina (Monday, June 16, 2025) - Perfect Game, the world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, today announced the hiring of Holden Smith as Upstate Regional Director. The Upstate is a region in South Carolina that includes 10 counties in the Northwestern part of the state.
Smith's journey includes 14 years in a leadership role in the Upstate of South Carolina, where he sharpened his organizational and team-building skills. His deep commitment is personified by having spent over a decade in travel baseball in the Upstate where he demonstrated dedication to fostering the needs of coaches, parents and players throughout that region.
"I'm honored and excited to be Perfect Game's Upstate Regional Director,” said Smith. “Having seen its impact firsthand, I'm passionate about fostering baseball's growth here. My goal is to create a dynamic environment where competition and camaraderie thrive. I'm committed to supporting coaches, parents and players while shaping the Upstate's next generation for travel baseball."
"Holden's unique blend of corporate leadership, entrepreneurial mindset in baseball and hands-on experience with Perfect Game events make him an ideal fit for this role," said Dominick Ferraro, Managing Partner of Perfect Game SE Coastal. "His vision for the Upstate region perfectly aligns with our mission to provide unparalleled experiences and opportunities for the coaches, players and parents.”
In his new role as Upstate Regional Director, Smith will be committed to cultivating a dynamic environment that champions both fierce competition and strong camaraderie. He aims to expand Perfect Game's footprint in the Upstate, offering more young athletes the chance to compete at all different levels.
Perfect Game is the world’s largest elite youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, producing over 9,800+ events, hundreds of thousands of games, and showcases each year across the country. Perfect Game is dedicated to giving amateur players exposure to take their game to the next level, whether that be in college or in the professional ranks. At Perfect Game events, players perform with top-level competition in front of college recruiters and professional scouts from all over the country. Because of this, these events prove to be invaluable to college coaches as well as Major League Baseball, as they can scout a large population of talented ballplayers in one location. To date, more than 2,240 players that have played in a Perfect Game event have also played in Major League Baseball. Since 2003, 15,134 Perfect Game alumni have been selected in the MLB First-Year Amateur Player Draft. In the 2023 Draft, for example, 95 percent of all players selected had played in Perfect Game events, and every player selected on the Draft’s first day had previously attended Perfect Game events.