OVERVIEW
AJAA offers recreational and instructional leagues in girls' Co-Ed tee ball (6U), coach pitch (8U) and fast pitch (10U and up) softball intended to:
- Involve everyone in a positive team experience
- Develop fundamental softball skills
- Build player confidence
- Emphasize player effort to play well
- Practice good sportsmanship
- Consider all players as WINNERS regardless of score!
**Playing age for Spring 2021 Recreational Softball is based on age of player as of 1.1.2021 for 8U-13/18U. (The age of your daughter as of January 1, 2021 will determine what division she will play in during the Spring league)
AGE DIVISIONS
6U is the same as the Little League Co-Ed T-BALL League (register under 2021 Spring Little League Baseball - TeeBall)
Click HERE for information regarding 8U League
Click HERE for information regarding 10U League
Click HERE for information regarding 12U League
Click HERE for information regarding 13-18U League
AJAA SPRING REC SOFTBALL SEASON
Games for each division will be played as follows (Please note – game schedules for 8U are preliminary & are subject to change based on team totals in each division and field space. We will do our best to keep to the proposed schedule but can’t guarantee until registration closes and teams are rostered.)
***Please be reminded that these plans are tentative and subject to change based on guidelines from our health and government officials to ensure everyone’s health and safety. We will keep families updated as dates near.
Field Locations for each league will be posted on our website and on our Facebook page.
COST
6U (Tee Ball - register with Baseball) - $80.00
8U - $125.00
10U - $140.00
12U - $140.00
13-18U - $140.00
*ATTENTION: As of January 2020 AJAA instituted the Family Fee. Please click HERE for more details.
Interested in knowing what a registration fee covers? Click HERE for details.
REGISTRATION
Registration for Spring Rec Softball is open January 4, 2021 to February 28, 2021 for 8U, 10U & 12U (6U will register in TeeBall through Baseball)
Registration for Spring Rec Softball is open January 4, 2021 to March 28th 2021 for 13-18U
**There is NO late registration. Once registration is closed, we will not be able to add any players
PRACTICES AND GAMES
Team Practices – will begin Week of April 6th (practice nights will vary by team/division – will be posted at a later date)
AJAA OPENING DAY FOR SOFTBALL – Saturday, April 18th (ALL divisions will have IN-HOUSE games this day)
**AJAA Fields address: 866 S CR 625 E Avon, IN 46123
*** Click HERE for the Softball Season Calendar
EVALUATIONS
For the 2021 Spring season - there will be no evals. Due to Covid and not being able to have capacity in local gymnasiums, we will not be able to have evals this year. Teams will be drafted with previous eval/season experience data.
Teams will be rostered by March 22nd - parents will be able to see their player's team in the Team Manager app by then.
DRAFTS
All Spring Rec Softball teams will be formed via a snake draft with head coaches shortly after registration closes. The Softball Commissioner will form teams for 6U but all other divisions will go through a draft process with head coaches. AJAA will no longer guarantee coach requests and/or ride share requests. This matches up to the policies of the other communities in our league. Head Coaches will be able to pick no more than 2 assistant coaches prior to the draft. All coaches will have their own daughters and their assistant’s daughters on their team. After those players are set, a snake draft will occur. *Siblings will automatically be placed on the same team.
HEAD COACHES & ASSISTANT COACHES NEEDED
AJAA is always in need of head coaches and assistant coaches to coach our softball teams for the season. If you would like to coach, please be sure to “volunteer” when registering your child in your AJAA account so you appear on our coaches list. YOU MUST REGISTER YOURSELF TO BE A HEAD COACH OR ASSISTANT COACH!
All coaches must pass a background check to be “cleared” by AJAA to coach.
Any new coaches that sign up must pass their background check prior to the draft meeting or they will not be able to attend drafts to pick their team.
GEAR REQUIRED
AJAA will provide players with uniform shirts. Players in 8U may wear shorts or softball pants (whatever they are comfortable in). Players in 10U and up leagues are encouraged to wear black softball pants. No metal cleats are allowed in any of our leagues. Please see above informational paragraphs for each league for a more detailed equipment list.