Dear Softball Family
As you have noted we are now hoping to get the girls out to play this year. We are still in the Purple tier. We need to be in the Red tier. All indications are looking like we will be there soon, but we do not know when. While we would love to go to the field with guns blazing, we are going to take a more precautionary approach for our families. The last thing we want to do is order uniforms, socks, hats, banners, sponsorships, raffle tickets, concessions –spend all kinds of monies and then be down-graded a tier and have to shut everything down in compliance with the County. Been there – done that! It was not enjoyable at all!
Each year we have to pay players fees to the city, insurances that cover our players, coaches, websites, accounting, equipment maintenance, ACE certifications, concessions rental & equipment, etc., and this year we will have the added expense of thinking of the safety of everyone. That means hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes, and whatever else will be required of us just to step foot on the fields.
Our #1 goal is to get the girls out of the house and playing ball. Our girls lost a whole year of skill-building and exercise. As stated, our league will look a bit different this year. We are going to hold various drills clinics for the players in lieu of tryouts and practices. There will be no concession stand this year and no formal umpires. Wear your uniforms from last year, I’m sure they are still clean ☺ As a matter of fact, if you have extra ones from previous years, we are willing to take them off your hands. At the end of the clinics, we will break up into teams to play games. You may actually be on a different team each day. We are hopeful that after a few weeks we can play more games. The girls will have the opportunity of working with several of our wonderful coaches and meet and make friends with more of the players in our league.
To keep costs low, we are looking to charge $75 per girl. We are hopeful this will help economically as we were all hit kind of hard this last year, as well as entice more girls to enjoy the sport that we love so much. We know this will not look like our traditional season, with no concessions, uniforms, outside teams, opening day, team banners, pictures, but if you are anything like our board, we miss you! We want to see you! We want to feel like a community again!!
As our nation is slowly getting back to a new normal, LET’S PLAY BALL!
We hope to see you soon!
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