. Payment - Paying by check allows you to get through the payment lines faster and avoid the $6 credit card fee, so we recommend bringing a blank check to use for payment. Have a player wanting to play AA, AAA or Majors Softball or Baseball? Please bring your calendar; your player will need to sign up for an evaluation time slot. Knowing your player's availability during the weekends in February will help.
New to spring baseball/softball with MLL? Please bring your player's birth certificate and three proofs of residency (driver's license, lease, utility bills, etc.) We will not be keeping these items, but need to see them.
Moved since last spring? Please bring three items of proof of your new residency. Got a kid who could use some fresh air and a break from screens? You can certainly bring him/her along.we love to see the players!!
However, players do not need to attend Walk-In Pay Days. Get Ready to Play Ball! Here are some general tips to help steer you through the Spring 2019 season as you finalize registration. Remember that much of this is subject to change based on final registration and scheduling issues.
As of now it appears the last day of the season (i.e. City Series Championship games) would be no later than 6/15/18. FCPS gets out of school on 6/13.
The season will likely start on Saturday, 3/30/18 on the baseball side—it is possible that softball might start on 3/29 though more likely 4/1. Due to FCPS spring break, the fields will be “dark” from 4/12-4/21 with games resuming on 4/22. As far as equipment goes: Players at all levels of baseball and tee ball will receive a hat and a jersey from the league.
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Softball players receive a jersey (softball teams may request hats, but since most players now wear face masks on defense, they don’t typically wear hats). Players are responsible for providing their own helmets, gloves, pants and socks.
Softball players must wear helmets with facemasks. Bats are provided to the teams at AA and below. Most players at the AAA and above levels have their own bats so we do not provide bats at those levels. Families looking to order helmets can do so from any vendor they might like. For convenience, we provide the following links to a vendor which MLL uses for a number of items. These helmets meet Little Standards (NOSCOE) and the “one size fits most” typically fit most children’s heads (the exception being those with very large heads). If these helmets are a little bit big for some of our smallest players, the player can wear their ball cap with the helmet which typically results in a nice fit.
Traditional helmets: Helmets with Face Masks: Families who need to purchase a glove for their children, might find the following site to be useful: Please contact MLL if you have any other questions. February 15, 2012 8:20 pm Written by: Steve Henson Hundreds of college athletes were asked to think back: 'What is your worst memory from playing youth and high school sports?'
Their overwhelming response: 'The ride home from games with my parents.' The informal survey lasted three decades, initiated by two former longtime coaches who over time became staunch advocates for the player, for the adolescent, for the child. Brown and Rob Miller of Proactive Coaching LLC are devoted to helping adults avoid becoming a nightmare sports parent, speaking at colleges, high schools and youth leagues to more than a million athletes, coaches and parents in the last 12 years. Those same college athletes were asked what their parents said that made them feel great, that amplified their joy during and after a ballgame.
Their overwhelming response: 'I love to watch you play.' There it is, from the mouths of babes who grew up to become college and professional athletes. Whether your child is just beginning T-ball or is a travel-team soccer all-star or survived the cuts for the high school varsity, parents take heed. The vast majority of dads and moms that make rides home from games miserable for their children do so inadvertently.
They aren't stereotypical horrendous sports parents, the ones who scream at referees, loudly second-guess coaches or berate their children. They are well-intentioned folks who can't help but initiate conversation about the contest before the sweat has dried on their child's uniform. In the moments after a game, win or lose, kids desire distance. They make a rapid transition from athlete back to child. And they’d prefer if parents transitioned from spectator – or in many instances from coach – back to mom and dad.
Brown (pictured below at podium), a high school and youth coach near Seattle for more than 30 years, says his research shows young athletes especially enjoy having their grandparents watch them perform. 'Overall, grandparents are more content than parents to simply enjoy watching the child participate,' he says. 'Kids recognize that.' A grandparent is more likely to offer a smile and a hug, say 'I love watching you play,' and leave it at that. Meanwhile a parent might blurt out “Why did you swing at that high pitch when we talked about laying off it?' 'Stay focused even when you are on the bench.” 'You didn’t hustle back to your position on defense.” 'You would have won if the ref would have called that obvious foul.” 'Your coach didn't have the best team on the field when it mattered most.” And on and on. Sure, an element of truth might be evident in the remarks.
But the young athlete doesn’t want to hear it immediately after the game. Not from a parent.
Comments that undermine teammates, the coach or even officials run counter to everything the young player is taught. And instructional feedback was likely already mentioned by the coach. 'Let your child bring the game to you if they want to,” Brown says. Brown and Miller, a longtime coach and college administrator, don't consider themselves experts, but instead use their platform to convey to parents what three generations of young athletes have told them. 'Everything we teach came from me asking players questions,' Brown says. 'When you have a trusting relationship with kids, you get honest answers. When you listen to young people speak from their heart, they offer a perspective that really resonates.” So what’s the takeaway for parents?
'Sports is one of few places in a child's life where a parent can say, 'This is your thing,’ ” Miller says. 'Athletics is one of the best ways for young people to take risks and deal with failure because the consequences aren’t fatal, they aren’t permanent. We’re talking about a game. So they usually don’t want or need a parent to rescue them when something goes wrong. 'Once you as a parent are assured the team is a safe environment, release your child to the coach and to the game.
That way all successes are theirs, all failures are theirs.' And discussion on the ride home can be about a song on the radio or where to stop for a bite to eat. By the time you pull into the driveway, the relationship ought to have transformed from keenly interested spectator and athlete back to parent and child: 'We loved watching you play. Now, how about that homework?'
FIVE SIGNS OF A NIGHTMARE SPORTS PARENT Nearly 75 percent of kids who play organized sports quit by age 13. Some find that their skill level hits a plateau and the game is no longer fun. Others simply discover other interests. But too many promising young athletes turn away.
2019 Cherry Blossom 10u–14u Tournament April 27-28 Fairfax, VA $500 4gg Gold & Silver Bracket for 10U and 12U Glory is thrilled and honored to be asked by the Vienna Girls Softball League to help host this long running, prestigious event. We are also excited to be running it under the USA Softball umbrella. Teams do not have to be USA Softball individually registered to participate in this tournament, all insurance policies are accepted.