Overview of All Star/Travel Teams for Minor and above baseball teams
Travel team is a team that participates in tournaments or extra games with athletes selected from house league participants. Our rookie program is a travel team.
All-star is a travel team that the participants are required to play in at least 8 house league games and are registered with Little League Canada as an All-star athlete. This team is committed to their tournaments on top of playing in district playdowns in an effort to participate in Provincial Championships and National Championships and Little League World Series. All star teams are committed to all levels of play offs and may not drop out after winning Provincials for example. Provincial championships and above are usually week long events. We will be running a minor, junior and senior all star teams.
For District championships, Minor and Juniors will have a district playdown against others in District 8 (Lanark, Perth, Mississippi Mills, Renfrew or Barry’s Bay.) Only the senior team is a district team where players from other associations within our district are permitted to play. The Junior team is a combined team with Renfrew players.
Paperwork - To participate on an All-star team, the athletes must either live within our boundaries or go to school within them and proof will be required. A school enrollment form is likely the easiest form to complete which must be signed off by the school principal. Once this is complete this form will stay with the athlete unless a family move is made. So those that completed it last season, this form is not required to be repeated. Other forms are required and will be managed the team manager. These must be completed promptly to ensure we are compliant. If forms are not complete, athletes can not play in districts or provincials and beyond.
Uniforms – players provide their own grey pants (must be grey) and as a part of the All-star/Travel fee socks, hats, belts (can decline this if already owned from last season) and undershirts are given to each player and the League will provide a vest jersey which is to be returned at the end of the season.
There will be an opportunity to purchase additional River Cats merchandise including shorts, hoodies, warm up jackets and potentially other items as well to be determined.
Practice- Each team will be given at least one practice a week for this team and when possible additional practices may be added as per the coach and field availability. These practices can be anywhere within our UOVLL boundaries
Exhibition games are being organized by the team’s coaches
Cost – There is an additional cost to play River Cats and this is dependent on how many tournaments the teams are doing. This will cover costs associated with Uniforms, tryouts, exhibition games and practices.
Rookie Team- Mark Williamson
Minor Team - Dustin Lauzon, Shawn Bergeron, Brian Brohart
Major Team –none
Junior Team – Bobby Keefe, Andrew Phelan
Junior and Senior– HC Kevin Chiasson