South Plains Girls Fastpitch

This free clinic is offered, only to SPGF Coaches and will be held on Saturday, March 20th at our complex. There are two sessions. One from 9:00am to 10:00am for beginner coaches, the other from 10:00am to 11:00am for advanced pitching instruction.

If you register, please make every effort to be there. The Pitching Instructor is going to use our registration numbers to plan his sessions. Be sure to include accurate information when registering because we may use this to follow up and confirm your registration.

Click Here to Sign-Up

Reserve a practice by clicking the link under the “Coach/Player Resources” tab on the navigation bar of this site. Please be sure to read the notes/rules before making your reservations.

When: Monday, March 8th from 5:30 to 7:00pm.

Where: By the Red Quad at the field complex at 1585 and Milwaukee.

Who: If one of the coaches from your team cannot come, please send another representative from your team.

If you did not sign-up for equipment at the Coaches’ Meeting, please send James Nesmith (jnesmith@amaonline.com) an email by Saturday, 3/6, so that he can have an equipment bag ready for you.  He’ll need; Coaches’ Name, Team Name, Age Division, phone #, email, and equipment needed. Choices of equipment are; practice balls, bats, batting helmets, catcher’s gear, and throw bases.  Only indicate the equipment you need, you do not have to take all equipment choices.

Be prepared to bring a deposit check with you for your issued equipment.  $150 for equipment and bag without catcher’s gear.  $250 if you are using league catcher’s gear. This is a deposit check that will be held and only cashed if the equipment is not returned at the end of the season by the scheduled return date.  No equipment will be issued without a deposit check.

Once again, the Texas Tech softball team has invited us to host our opening ceremonies at on of their games.

2010 Opening Ceremonies will be held March 28th following the Texas Tech vs Iowa State softball game at Rocky Johnson field. All teams will be introduced on the field and meet the Texas Tech softball team and participate in a special autograph session!

Additionally, Texas Tech has again asked our league girls to participate as ball girls for Texas Tech home games. There will be many more home games so there are many more opportunities for our girls to be ball girls this season. If you would like to get your team signed up to be ball girls, let me know.

We need to make sure that the email that you give us is correct as we have had several emails bounce to back to us today as we tried to contact you.

Parents,
Any registrations taken at this point will be placed onto a waiting list. All teams in all divisions are full at this point. There has been considerable activity with players changing their minds about playing and such. If a spot comes available, we will contact you. Please email either myself of League Secretary Lesley Rundell if you want to be placed on the waiting list. After today we will NOT be able to accept any more kids to the waiting list.

Coaches, if you have not contacted Becky Castillo with your team name and uniform colors and sizes, you need to take care of this as soon as possible so that we can get the league’s order turned in.

We also need you to get your team name to Lesley Rundell so that we can get the schedules generated. Please take care of this as soon as you can. Today if possible

Coaches,

The 2010 season is almost upon us and its time for us to get ready for the season.  I want to thank you for agreeing to coach in our league again for the 2010 season!  With that being said, I want give you some dates for the upcoming season as it pertains to you as a coach:

• Saturday, February 20th  9-11:00 am  Final Late Signups for all divisions (Red Quad Concession Stand, Complex)
• Saturday, February 20th 11:00 am      League tryouts for all divisions (Red Quad, Fields 5-8)
• Sunday, February 21st 1:00 pm          2010 Mandatory Coaches Meeting (Science Spectrum, S. Loop 289)
• Sunday, February 21st 2:00 pm          League Draft (Science Spectrum, S. Loop 289)

Please make sure to check back here on the league website often for vital updates. The website is going to be a primary mode of communication for the league this year as it has been updated by Juan Calderon of Ralls Rage.  It features a blog and message board feature that make the site more functional for our league.  Also, be sure to check out the league’s facebook page which you can access from the league website as well. The coaches meeting will cover a lot of topics such as schedule, rain outs, uniforms, and rosters. It will also cover your certification.  You need to make arrangement to be at this meeting.  The draft will take place immediately following the coaches meeting. Those coaches that need to pick up a player or draft a team need to remain for the draft.  Please note, as stated on the website, all free agent pick ups must be completed by Friday, February 19.  All players not on a roster on February 20 MUST be drafted onto a team, either by traditional draft or hat draw.  No free agent pick ups will be allowed after February 19. (This policy does not apply to out of county teams that are bringing an entire team from out of town.) Thanks so much, we will see you on the 20th and 21st.

-Chris Snead

Coaches and Parents,

Tryouts will take place on February 20th at the Red Quad at the complex.  All players that are NOT on a team by the 20th MUST participate in the draft.  In other words, Coaches, you may pick up whatever players you want UNTIL FEBRUARY 19th!  Beginning February 20th, any player that is not on a roster MUST participate in the draft (traditional or hat draw) in order to be placed on a team.  NO FREE AGENT PICK UP WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE  LEAGUE SECRETARY AFTER FEBRUARY 19th.  If a player does not go through tryouts on February 20, they will be placed on a team via a hat draw. 

Additionally, any players added to the league following the draft will be assigned by hat draw in a designated order determined on February 21st.  Coaches, please do not ask the league to accept a free agent on your team after February 19th, this request will be denied.  Please do not attempt to pick up a free agent player at the tryout as this was a huge problem last year. Please handle all free agent situations by FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19th.  Coaches,  please remember that you must carry 12 players.

Last day for Sign-ups is going to be Saturday, February 20th from 9AM to 11AM at our complex. HERE is the registration form, and don’t forget to bring a birth certificate (we can make a copy for you).

Tryouts for kids who do not have a team will start at 11AM. Same date and location.

You can always sign up from now ’til then by mailing in a form with a check enclosed to the address listed on this site, or by meeting a board member to give them your registration.