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Richmond Area 12u Team Tryouts

Midlo DadMidlo Dad10,000+ posts
I am helping to run a team that is reconstituting for its 12u year. Play is at 50/70 dimensions. Coaches include myself and two former Division 1/MiLB players (Ryan Norwood and Brian Marshall).

The team will practice twice a week and play Sunday doubleheaders this fall for the most part. There will also be 3-4 weekend tournaments; those weeks will involve one weeknight practice and the tourney weekend. So, count on three days each week with team activities.

This team's emphasis is on instruction in fundamentals and bringing the proper competitive attitude to the field, while maintaining a strict code of conduct. Travel is generally limited to central VA, though there are plans to attend one of the Cooperstown tourneys in July 2010.

Tentatively it appears that our home field this fall will be at Trinity Episcopal School. If not there, then in that general part of town.

If interested, please PM me for tryout information. Tryouts are Sunday Aug. 16 and Sunday Aug. 23, 3-5 p.m. both days. Players should attend both sessions if at all possible.
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Midlo DadMidlo Dad10,000+ posts
Last call for tryouts Wed. evening, this Sunday and the following Sunday (Aug. 12, 16 and 23)!

FYI, the core of last year's team played for the Little League 11u District 5 champs/state tournament runner-up. No one has been guaranteed a roster spot but those players would generally be expected to return. We are looking to fill out our roster with players of like caliber.
C ctandc500+ posts
You guys did well in States. Great run. I watched the Championship game for the Districts with you guys and Tuckahoe.

Our League hosted the District Tournament.

I coached our LL All Star Team that won Districts....and disappointingly ended up 3rd in States. (to a walk off homer in the bottom of the 6th to a kid who was 0-8 for the tourney).

Even after watching all the SE Regional games, I still think we're better than most of the teams there. But hey..that's baseball.


Good luck!!!
Midlo DadMidlo Dad10,000+ posts
That tournament team had some of our players and also some from another travel team. Still, it was a good chance for some of our kids to show progress on what we've been working on. Of course we work on the fundamentals --the mechanics of the various game tasks, plus situations knowledge. But this is the age where you want to see kids go from just showing up and playing, to being competitors from the first pitch to the last out.

We started from nothing and went a very long way in about 9 months in the last annual cycle. Now it's time to keep moving up that ladder. Still lots of room for growth. And, we're looking for others who want that same emphasis.
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C ctandc500+ posts
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Originally posted by Midlo Dad:
That tournament team had some of our players and also some from another travel team. Still, it was a good chance for some of our kids to show progress on what we've been working on. Of course we work on the fundamentals --the mechanics of the various game tasks, plus situations knowledge. But this is the age where you want to see kids go from just showing up and playing, to being competitors from the first pitch to the last out.

We started from nothing and went a very long way in about 9 months in the last annual cycle. Now it's time to keep moving up that ladder. Still lots of room for growth. And, we're looking for others who want that same emphasis.


That is what it's supposed to be about.

Our team turned 13U Aug 1st, and hit the big field. Although most of my guys have played up on the big field, this is a first as a team. We're going 60/90 without doing 54/80, and the kids are already pumped up about it.

Although I admit a lot of it may be the fact that they get to where metal spikes LOL

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