Spring Township Athletic Association: 2012 Spring Season Divisions
T-Ball for 5 and 6 year olds - League age is your age on May 1st of the current baseball season
Boys Coach Pitch - Comm - Joel Marino/Scott Emerich
Coach Pitch Baseball for 7 & 8 year olds. League age is your age on May 1st of the current season.
Boys Minor - Commissioner - Joe Strause
Boys Baseball for 9 & 10 year olds - kids pitch in this league. League age is your age on May 1st of the current season.
Boys Major League - Commissioner - Steve DiGiacomo
Major league for ages 11 & 12. Kid Pitch. League age is your age on May 1st of the current season.
Senior League - (Boys) --- Commissioner - Don Uhrig
This Division includes the following levels:
Senior Babe Ruth - 16 to 18 year olds
Junior Babe Ruth - 13 to 15 year olds
Western Berks - 13 to 15 olds
City/County Prep - 13 & 14 year olds
Tryouts are scheduled annually in April to determine the final roster spots for these teams. Not all registrants will play on a Senior Boys STAA team, and will be refunded if necessary.
Senior County (Girls) --- Commissioner - Steve Love
Player must reside in the Wilson School District.
18&U This is a competitive girls league for girls who ages 15-18 by Jan. 1 of that season. Players will be selected based on evaluations performed in May. The season begins in June and ends at the end of July.
Sr. Girls Softball League is a very competitive league and plays in the Berks county Girls Softball League. Travel within the county is expected for games. They will play/practice approximately 3-4 times per week. This league follows ASA rules of the game, it is fast pitch, and includes stealing bases.
Big Dawgs (Girls) --- Commissioner - Nikki Spatz
This is a Girls league for 4th - 6th graders.
Player must reside in or attend school in the Wilson School District. This includes girls from St. Ignatius.
this is an instructional, in-house, recreational league. Girls who are interested in competitive play are encouraged to tryout for STAA's 12U BCGSL team. Girls in these grades who are not selected for the 12U BCGSL County team will be placed in the Big Dawgs" league if they choose (grades 4-6). Teams will be organized based on requests to play with friends, no guarantees.
This league will play and practice 3x/week. Games are separate from practices and are semi-competitive 2 hour games. Girls will pitch fastpitch in the games with coach pitching when there are 4 walks in an inning. Bunting and stealing on a limited basis will be permitted in the games. (Please refer to league rules for further explanation) A post-season tournament may be played dependent on the number of teams in the league.
Players will be instructed in development of fundamental softball skills (batting, fielding, stealing, bunting, throwing), rules of the game, and basic strategies of the game.
Diamond League (Boys) --- Commissioner - Don Uhrig
Players must reside or attend school it the Wilson School District
This team is selected in December of the preceding playing season. Tryouts are advertised in early November to be held in the beginning of December. All interested registrants are contacted in advance and notified of tryout information. A committee, to include the head coach, selects players for the team as a result of the scheduled tryouts.
This team plays in the City/County League travelling throughout the county playing an advanced level of highly competitive baseball. The players selected incur additional costs on top of the regular STAA registration fees.
Instr T-Ball (Girls) --- Commissioner - Joe Marx
Player must reside in the Wilson School District. This includes girls from St. Ignatius.
This is a girls league for K and 1st graders. This is an instructional, non-competitive league based on grade - NO EXCEPTIONS. Teams will be organized based on requests to play with friends, no guarantees.
This league will play and/or practice 1-2x/week. Practices will be 1.5 hours long and focus on developing fundamental skills (throwing, fielding, batting) and basic knowledge of the game. Games will be 1 hour long and be preceeded by 30- 45 minutes of skills instruction and practice. Girls will hit off of a tee initially and will be introduced to coach pitch.
Junior County (Girls) --- Commissioner - Scott Spatz
Player must reside in the Wilson School District.
14&U This is a competitive girls league for girls in at least 7th grade and who are 13 or 14 years old as of Jan. 1 of that season. Players will be selected based on evaluations performed in May. The season begins in June and ends at the end of July.
Tournament Team selected players are chosen by the Sr. softball coaches to participate in various tournaments during the summer months. This includes travel and usually occurs over an entire weekend(s).
12U & 10U & 9U Summer Tournament Teams - Head Coach TBD
Invitations to tryouts for these teams are sent as a result of Major League evaluations.
Interested players will tryout for these teams and be selected by a committee of evaluators, to include the head coach.
These teams play in organized competitive summer tournaments throughout the county. The players selected incur additional costs on top of the regular STAA registration fees.
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