Fast Pitch Softball
Fast Pitch Softball Information
Age groups for softball are 9-10 Mites, 11-12 Midgets, 13-14 Juniors. The fee will be $50.00 per child with a 10% discount for all children after the first one has registered. A child’s age as of January 1st of the current year will determine the age group they will be eligible to play in. Everyone who registers will play. In all age groups, there are parents who feel their child should play in an older age group. : When a parent wants to move their child up they must speak with the athletic staff before the move will be approved. They must fill out an age waiver and speak with the staff so that the rule differences may be explained to them. Make sure we have your correct home phone number. are not supplied in any age group. The registration fee goes to help with the cost of field maintenance, lights for game nights, officials and scorekeepers, and the baseball/softball equipment. Coaches try to get sponsors for their team and if one is not found parents are responsible for the cost of their child’s uniform. must be written on the registration form when you register. Volunteer coaches are always needed in this age group and all age groups. Please consider being a youth coach. The children will play in the city they live and go to school. Being a youth coach involves teaching the sport, organizing practices, communicating with the parents about practice times and game times, finding a sponsor to cover the cost of uniforms, and appointing a team mom. The team may want team pictures and end of season trophies which is optional. If the team does want these things the parents are responsible for their cost. To coach you must fill out a coaching application each season and pass the background check.
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(Click here for more information about being a coach) or see the athletic staff for more information. In all/each age group there will be a skill’s evaluation for all players new and returning. New Players are players who did not play last year or who are moving up to a new age group. The skill’s evaluation is used to disperse the talent in each age group over all the teams to have more equality of play. Players who return to the same age group will be considered returning players. They will return to the same team they were on last year. Please be sure to put the team your child played with when filling out the registration form. They must attend the skill’s evaluation. Girls are combined with the boys and they play coach pitch baseball. All skill’s evaluation dates will given to you once you register in the parents information letter. Please be sure you receive this letter. There is not post season play for allstars in this age group. Practices will be scheduled by the head coach of the team and no earlier than 5:30pm. Their season is slated to begin April 14th and should end by June 2nd. The weather may cause us to have to run into the first week of June.
7-8 Mighty Mites
In the 9-10 Mites age group, we play with a pitching machine and it is still fast pitch softball. This means that pitching is done by a pitching machine and not a player. They will have no more than two games per week. They will have 10-12 games. As with the 7-8 age group teams will travel to Woodbine and the North end of Camden County for some of their games. Practices will be scheduled by the head coach of the team and no earlier than 5:30pm. Their season is slated to begin April 14th and should end by June 2nd . The weather may cause us to have to run into the first week of June. Allstars will not end till the middle of July. All players must attend the skill’s evaluation. All skill’s evaluation dates will given to you once you register in the parents information letter. Please be sure you receive this letter. There will be allstar teams chosen for this age group to represent us in the GRPA District Tournaments during the beginning of July. The coaches should let you know by the middle of May if we will be advancing to District tournaments. We play by Georgia High School rules with modifications in all age groups from the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association. Special Pitching Machine Rules apply.
In the 11-12 Midget age group, we play live pitch softball. They will have no more than two games per week. They will have 10-12 games. As with the 9-10 age group teams will travel to Woodbine and the North end of Camden County for some of their games. Practices will be scheduled by the head coach of the team and no earlier than 5:30pm. Their season is slated to begin April 14th and should end by June 2nd. The weather may cause us to have to run into the first week of June. Allstars will not end till the middle of July. All players must attend the skill’s evaluation. All skill’s evaluation dates will given to you once you register by providing you a parents information letter. Please be sure you receive this letter. There will be allstar teams chosen for this age group to represent us in the GRPA District Tournaments during the beginning of July. We play by Georgia High School rules with modifications in all age groups from the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association.
In the 13-14 Junior girls age group, we will take registration for all girls wanting to play. Please get your child registered early if you want her to play. If people are not registered we can not determine the game schedule or a start date. We want to begin the season April 14th and should end by June 2nd. The weather may cause us to have to run into the first week of June. Allstars will not end till the middle of July. They will have no more than two games a week one of those games being on Saturdays. Once registered you will receive an parents information sheet with proposed dates for everything to begin. Practices will be scheduled by the head coach of the team and no earlier than 5:30pm. There will be allstar teams chosen for this age group to represent us in the GRPA District Tournaments during the beginning of July. We play by Georgia High School rules with modifications in all age groups from the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association. To be able to provide games for this age group there may be some travel to surrounding counties to have teams to play. This age group may not have Saturday games. This will be determined once the skill’s evaluation has been concluded. There is a Mandatory Play Rule in all age groups. Each child will get to play in every game.