This past Sunday, we had several attend our “New To Head Coaching” meeting. Since we still need head coaches for 4/5YO baseball, 9/10YO baseball and 11/12YO baseball, we wanted to share the key items discussed:

We discussed access to Civitan Park during the week cannot occur prior to 4:00PM. Civitan Park is located on school property.

Our teams are formed in two methods:

1. The 4/5YO and 6YO baseball teams are formed based on parent requests. If there are no requests by a player, we will do our best to group by school zone or neighborhood. Head coaches that have more requests than roster spots will have to decide who they can keep.

2. The 7YO to 12YO teams are formed based on a draft. Head coaches can protect up to 6 players, but those players must have requested the head coach in their registration record. Every player included the protected players must have a rating. All players are slotted into a round and the protected players must be drafted in that round.

Practice schedule durations start at 75 minutes to our youngest groups to 120 minutes for our oldest groups. Once games start, the 4/5YO teams and most of the 6YO teams have not historically practiced in the past.

Weather alerts occur in the following order: (1) Twitter (2) Updates to the Field Status link on the website (3) Email blast. We do not send notices to confirm we are playing, only when cancelled.

Games impacted by weather will be rescheduled by the league as soon as possible.

Coaches are required to complete a background check, complete the concussion checklist and complete the Code of Conduct agreement. We reviewed in the meeting why these were necessary.

We use umpires for 7YO and higher starting the first game of the season. We will use youth umpires for 6YO baseball a couple of weeks into the season.

For more details, please email us.