Team History
(continued from Homepage)
The Virginia Vipers Softball Club for Veterans has its genesis in
the Fairfax Adult Softball league during the fall 1997 season.
Yet the mighty Vipers moniker was much less appealing in
their flagship season:
the Woodchucks. The founder of the fighting Woodchucks was a
Tennessean, Jimmy Sneed, who had moved to Northern Virginia to
pursue his dream of running the planet’s most successful softball
organization and of course work as an electrical engineer. Two
seasons later, Jimmy changed the team’s name from Woodchucks to
VipersAfter routine league competition through 2001, Jimmy combined his
Vipers squad with an active duty Army officer, Carl S. Ey who ran a
plethora of military-centric teams.
Together they formed the Vipers Softball Club.
The club’s goal was to offer military, veterans and
government service employees an opportunity to get into the
community through the adult softball programs in the great
metropolitan D.C. area.