PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION BEFORE REGISTERING!!!

Play ball! Spring is here and that means it is time for baseball at the Ruby C. Hunt YMCA! We are offering baseball for male and female athletes ages three to twelve.

We will have a parent meeting on, Tuesday, February 27^th, 2024 in the Ruby C. Hunt Library at 6:30 PM. We will have a coaches meeting for those already coaching and anyone interested in coaching on Thursday, February 29^th, 2024, in the Ruby C. Hunt YMCA Library at 6:30 PM.

Our goals:

Character Development:

Through intentional devotion, prayer time, and the lessons taught through the game we hope to develop good character in each child and teen in our program. We promote and strive to instill sportsmanship, respect, discipline, kindness, and joyfulness in each of our participants. We select coaches who have these characteristics and want to develop them in their players. Our mission is not to develop good athletes, but to develop good people.

Community Building:

This program aims to create an environment where participants can build a community through their teammates and opponents. We also strive to create a space where parents and coaches can build community with each other and across our county. We want this to feel like more than just a flag football season. We want this to be an experience where new friends can be met and communities formed!

Sport Competence:

We want kids to learn about the sports they enjoy and feel confident enough to play them. We want our participants to leave with a fundamental knowledge of the sport and how to play it. As participants continue in the program, we strive to challenge them more to expand this knowledge and build on their foundation. This feeds into our real mission in this area, for kids to love sports/physical activity. Being physically active is an extremely important aspect of one’s health and because of this, we aim to promote physical activity for life through our sports programs.

Registration:

• On-time registration will go from January 8^th to March 3^rd, 2024.
• Late registration will be from March 4^th to March 8^th, 2024.
  • Age groups may be capped after on-time registration due to team size limits. Please sign up during on-time registration to secure your spot.

A late fee of $10.00 will be charged to anyone who signs up after March 3rd, 2024.

Member Rate: $40.00

Non-Member Rate: $70.00

Boiling Springs Town residents get 10% off!

Financial Assistance available upon request.

Skills Nights:

• Skills nights will be for any players 7 years or older.
• There will be no skills night for any player that is younger than 7 years older.
• 7-18 ages will have the following skills nights(must be registered to attend skills night):
  • March 7^th:
    • 7-8 Machine Pitch: 6:00pm-7:00pm
    • 9-10 Player Pitch: 6:00pm-7:00pm
    • 11-12 Player pitch: 7:00pm-8:00pm
      • Location: Boiling Springs Town Park
        • Located behind Boiling Spring Town Hall and the GWU Communications Hall

Practices:

• Practices will start the week of March 11^th, 2024.
• Practices will be on a weekday evening, excluding Wednesdays.
  • This means your practices could be on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday starting anytime from 5:30 PM (For younger ages) to 8:00 PM (For older ages)
  • We allow our volunteer coaches to pick their practice days to best fit their schedule since they are giving their time to volunteer for our community.
    • Please be available for any of the potential days and times listed above.
  • An initial message about practice will come sometime after your child’s skills night or (if your child does not have a skills night or misses skills night) after March 7^th, 2024.

Games:

• IF YOU WILL HAVE CONSISTENT CONFLICTS WITH THE DATES/DAYS PROVIDED BELOW, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THESE DATES/DAYS ARE FINAL AND WILL NOT BE CHANGED UNLESS UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES ARISE.
• Games will start for Baseball the week of April 8^th.
• Games for Baseball will be on weekday evenings.
  • This means your Baseball games could be on a weekday starting anytime from 5:30 PM (for younger ages) to 8:00 PM (for older ages).
• Baseball may have to interleague depending on registration numbers.
  • This will influence where we play, but there will be games at Boiling Springs Town Park.
    • Located behind Boiling Springs Town Hall and the GWU communications building.
  • Ages 7 years and older will play an eight-game season. Ages younger than 7 years old will play a six-game season.
  • There will be no playoffs for any age groups.
  • We will do bowl games for age groups 10 and up.
    • (9-10 Baseball and 11-12 Baseball will do bowl games)

Participant Requests:

• NOT ALL REQUESTS WILL BE MET AND WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT ANY REQUEST WILL BE MET.
• We do accept requests for specific teams or coaches; however, we ask that any request be made out of necessity (transportation, family, work schedule, etc.)
  • Please do not request specific coaches or players out of preference.
  • We desire for our sports program to build a community and this involves our participants and parents be able to meet new people and create new bonds.
• Please only request a teammate or coach if you absolutely need it.
• With this in mind, NOT ALL REQUESTS WILL BE MET AND WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT ANY REQUEST WILL BE MET.

Y-Gametime:

• For all game scheduling we will be using the Y-Gametime
  • Link to Ruby’s Y-Gametime page: https://ygametime.com/branch/ruby/sports/
• We ask that all parents and coaches check Y-Gametime on a regular basis to see any updates to the schedule.
  • We aim to communicate all these updates to coaches; however, every individual is responsible for staying up to date with their game schedule and any changes that may happen.

Contact Information:

• We encourage everyone to ensure that all their contact information submitted is accurate and up to date.
• You will most likely receive text messages from coaches.
• You will certainly receive emails from staff about updates and important information!
  • So please ensure your email and phone number are current and up to date!
  • Also please check your email and text messages regularly to stay informed