4/5/24 A message from President Nick Smith
We are all aware of the weather we have been facing recently. We are
hopeful for a break in the weather tonight, but we are preparing for the
worst for Opening Day. Our Opening Day committee is working tirelessly
to ensure that we have a fun and successful Opening Day no matter what
the weather is for tomorrow.
Opening Day and pictures will take
place no matter what the weather is for tomorrow. With games and
practices, there are no other feasible days for us to hold Opening Day
after tomorrow. We are taking precautions to keep our players as dry as
possible for their pictures while still providing the same high quality
photos our WVLL families have come to expect every year.
Your teams pictures will still proceed as scheduled. We will not be holding any make up picture days.
In
regard to the skills challenge, we will do everything in our power to
hold the WVLL Skills Challenge as we do every year on Opening Day. If we
are unable to due to weather or field conditions, we will update the
league with our secondary plans.
Thank you everyone for your patience and understanding in what has been a wet start to our 2024 season.
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2-23-24 Managers Meeting
2-24-24 Baseball and Softball Assessments
3-4-24 practices start for everyone except T-ball-
3-25-24 Games start for all divisions (T-ball practices start)
4-6-24 OPENING DAY! Hawks, Memorial Stadium-
4-8-24 – T-ball games start
Baseball and softball assessments are Saturday, February 24th. Below are some important details. Please read through.........
We have hundreds of kids to assess, so we
are going to do our best to make it a very quick and fluid process. On
the baseball side, we will start with A, AA, AAA, then end with Majors.
Softball will only be assessing Majors and will start in the morning. A
spreadsheet was sent out through email with your child's specific time.
See below for very important instructions:
1) Assessments are at Sawtooth Sports, which is an indoor facility located at 1216 Aviation Way in Caldwell, ID. The first group will check in at 8:00am and the assessments will continue until approximately 7pm.
2) Sawtooth Sports has been kind enough to rent us their facility for
the assessments. With that, there is limited parking and space inside
so we are asking for only one parent to bring your kid. Due to
the lack of space for both parking and parental areas to sit, we are
asking that you not bring siblings to the assessments. Sawtooth has a
parking lot and some surrounding areas, but you may also have to park on
Aviation Way and walk in. Due to the parking issues, we are limiting the assessment "groups" to 12-14 players.
3) Sawtooth is an exceptional indoor facility, so we ask that kids that are assessing wear sliders/sandals in ...and then change into turf or tennis shoes for their assessments - no cleats allowed. The less dirt we track in, the better.
4) Those assessing need to show up 20 minutes prior to their assessment time.
Within those 20 minutes, you will check in, be assigned a number, and
start a static warm up. Please do not show up too early. If you are
early, please wait in your car or outside until your specified time.
The check-in table will be easy to find after you enter the front lobby.
5) There will be a small area for parents to sit during assessments.
It will be the area by the old basketball gym...which is where softball
will be holding their assessments (once you enter the facility and walk
through the front office it is to the left). There will be no parents
allowed by the gym equipment, the check-in area (after completing the
process), or upstairs. It will be clearly marked. The area will be
taped off for coaches to assess/WVLL board members facilitating the
tryouts.
6) Sawtooth has been kind enough to let us use their baseballs, so PLEASE
leave Sawtooth with the same number of baseballs they started with. If
your kiddo tries to sneak out with one, please bring it back as we will
have to pay for baseballs that are missing. VP of softball Dave
Dowling will be bringing softballs for the softball tryouts, but we have
the same ask...if softballs walk away, we as WVLL have to purchase
more.
7) We understand that the times may not work for everyone, BUT, if we as WVLL have kids showing up at hours they aren't expected, it
becomes a problem not only with the level of play they may attempt to
assess with, but the coaches that need to assess them may be
gone/haven’t arrived because it's not their time slot for their
particular division. As stated earlier, on the baseball side we are
starting with A and then ending with Majors. Also, having to add extra
kids into time slots they aren't planned for will most likely cause us
to run behind schedule.
Please don’t email us to change assessment times. These
times are chosen for specific reasons and we know it’s impossible to
make times work perfectly for everyone. Between softball and baseball we have nearly 340 players to assess, so please give us some grace.
At
the end of the day, if your player doesn’t assess, your kid will still
be drafted into the division he/she signed up for, they will just be
subject to the blind draft and their name picked randomly. If it is
determined after a couple practices that they need to move up or down
in divisions, the WVLL Board will work with you to make that happen.
That
being said, please make EVERY attempt to make it to assessments as they
really help make sure kiddos get selected for the most appropriate
division from the beginning, which also helps make our teams in every
division more even. That then equals the best competition at every level, smaller teams (more playing time), and creates a better experience.
8) Once your kid is done assessing, please gather up your gear and head
out as soon as you can because as stated earlier, parking and parental
areas to sit are minimal. Thank you for your investment in WVLL and we
look forward to the assessment process and the draft process that
follows.
thank you
West Valley
West Valley Important Dates
Mark your calendars!!!
Sunday, February 4th - Registration Closes
* You will be placed on a waitlist if you try to register after this date *
February 12th – 15th – Coaches Interviews
Monday, 2/12 – Rookie
Tuesday, 2/13 – A
Wednesday, 2/14 - AA
Thursday, 2/15 - AAA & Majors
Friday, February 16th – Managers Announced
Friday, February 23rd - Managers Meeting
6:30pm - location TBD
Saturday, February 24th – Baseball and Softball Assessments
Majors, AAA, AA, A
@ Sawtooth Sports
1216 Aviation Way #101
Caldwell, ID 83605
Times will be sent the week after registration closes
February 26th - 29th – Drafts Baseball and Softball
Monday, 2/26 - Majors
Tuesday, 2/27 – AAA
Wednesday, 2/28 – AA
Thursday, 2/29 – A
Saturday March 2nd – Intermediate/Junior/Senior Assessments
Location TBD
Monday, March 4th - Practices Begin, except T-ball
Monday, March 25th - Games start, T-ball practice starts
Saturday, April 6th - OPENING DAY!!!!!
(Pictures, skills challenge, raffle, food)
Hawks Memorial Stadium
Monday, April 8th – T-ball games start
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SPRING REGISTRATION INFORMATION UPDATE!!!
Games expected to start last week of March/First week of April.
(i) Minor League Softball –
will consist of member players not selected in the Major player draft.
Teams in this division will be made up of player’s league age 9 through
11. The Softball Player Agent will form the teams and every effort will
be made to balance the player skill level equally among the teams.
Requests for placement on specific teams will be allowed.