SAN DIEGO -- The Amateur Sports Alliance of North America (ASANA) is bringing its annual World Series women's softball championship to San Diego, August 20-25, 2012 and they need some local help.

Created in 1997 with both men and women's teams, the sports non-profit split from the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAA) ten years later and took only the women players. It currently boasts 26 participating cities across the country.

Editor's Note: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News is launching a new LGBT Sports Profile feature to run on Fridays. The Sports Profile will not only focus on the myriad of local LGBT sports organizations that San Diego is lucky enough to enjoy all year 'round, but also on the members of our community who participate in them.

Name: Matha Henderson

Hometown: Gaithersburg, Md.

How many years have you been in San Diego?:

Four years (I was in Santa Barbara for seven years prior to San Diego)

Single or taken: Single

Were you picked on as a kid? Maybe never picked until last for sport teams in school? Did you really love a sport, but fall behind early or get injured, only to have your parents pull you -- and you never got to live up to your full potential?

Was there a sport you always wanted to try but your parents either didn't have the money or discouraged you from participating? Were you too afraid to try out? Or maybe you just didn't fit in?

If any of these are true, odds are you are in pretty good company right here in the San Diego LGBT community. We've all been there.