Haddon Heights Youth Athletics: Welcome

Travel Basketball League - Boys and Girls Grades 3rd through 6th.  Travel fee includes Rec League fee & Camden County Basketball League Fee.  Click here to register for travel.

Recreation League - Boys and Girls Grades 1st through 6th.  Click here to register.

See the flyer for more information. (Flyer)

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Registration for the Spring 2012 Baseball and Softball season is now open! HHYA now requires that all registration for baseball and softball must be completed online. Registration must be completed by Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Any registrations after February 22 will be charged a late fee. Here is the 2012 HHYA Baseball-Softball Registration Flyer which outlines fees and other pertinent information for the season.  Click here to register your baseball teens and here to register your softball players and baseball pre-teens.

TIPS FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION:

• HHYA encourages you to please register all your children at the same time. When you’ve completed registering one child, just follow the prompts to register another child. This helps with preliminary preparations for the season.
• Please be sure you enter parent information in the correct fields (especially on the initial screen when you start registration) and you enter child information in the correct participant fields. This helps prevent registration errors.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT HHYA DATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE UPCOMING BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL SEASONS.Most of this information and more can be also be found in document under the Forms / Flyers menu item to the left.

NEW FOR 2012 Operation Home Run (a new HHYA fundraising initiative): Click here for details. Please read.  This effects all families.

2012 Medical Release must be completed and given to team manager: Once you’ve completed online registration, please complete the 2012 Medical Release and give to your child’s coach once you are notified in early March. HHYA will remind you again that a medical release must be completed.

Volunteer Applications for All Coaches Must be Completed by Wednesday, February 22: To be considered for an HHYA coaching position (manager, assistant, scorekeeper), a 2012 Little League Volunteer Application must be completed and returned to HHYA. The application can be downloaded at www.HHYA.org and emailed to HHYASports@gmail.com (preferred method) or the application can be mailed to HHYA, P.O. Box 1, Haddon Heights, NJ 08035. The form must be postmarked by the HHYA posted registration closing date of Wednesday, February 22, 2012. All completed 2012 Volunteer Applications are reviewed by HHYA. The information is also used to complete criminal/sex offender background checks. Volunteer Applications are held by the HHYA president.

Softball players eligible for HHYA pitching clinics (YOU MUST BE REGISTERED): A series of free softball pitching clinics are available to all interested girls league (ages 12 and under) that have already registered for the 2012 HHYA Softball Season. If you’re not registered, you are not eligible to participate. Pitching clinic dates are TENTATIVELY scheduled for Jan. 27, Feb. 10, Feb. 17.  Ages 8 & under are from 6 to 7 PM and ages 9 to 12 are from 7 to 8pm.  All are at Glenview Avenue School. Once registered, you simply RSVP to lisa.battino@comcast.net with name and age.  

Baseball & Sofball Play-Up Tryouts Scheduled for Saturday, February 25 at 9 AM to NOON: Click here for detailed information

Baseball & Softball Player Skills Assessments are scheduled for Saturday, February 25 at 10 AM to NOON (Tentative): Click here for detail information

Rutgers Safety Training (required for some leagues) offered on Saturday, March 10 @ 9 AM: If selected to manage or assistant coach in Boys Minors, Boys Majors, Boys Teens and all Girls Travel League teams, you must complete the Rutgers Safety Training prior to the start of the season. HHYA is offering the training at SportzCentral on Saturday, March 10, 2011 from 9am to noon. It’s a life-time certification, so if you completed the course previously with HHYA you do not have to take it again.

HHYA Coaches Clinic offered on Saturday, March 10 @ 12:30 PM: A Coaches Clinic at SportzCentral will also be offered for coaches and parents (of younger age groups) on Saturday, March 10, 2011 from 12:30 to 2:30 PM. The objective of the training is to provide information about fundamental coaching concepts which enhances volunteer coaches’ effectiveness.

Residency for All-Star selection: Unfortunately, Little League rules limit end-of-season all-star participation to Haddon Heights residents only.  Visit www.HHYA.org at a later date for more information on all-star selection. 

INTERESTED IN BEING AN HHYA SPONSOR?

Corporate sponsorship is vital to the success of HHYA Sports. If you are a local business owner or are employed by a company that’s interested in learning more about HHYA Sponsorship Opportunities, please email HHYASports@gmail.com. A board member will contact you to discuss marketing opportunities for you and your business.   To see a list of sponsors who helped make the 2011 season possible, click the sponsors menu item to the left.  You can also check out the list here and for a list of sponsor opportunities click here.

Currently, HHYA provides batting helmets to each club team for shared general use. There is a nationwide trend to no longer provide shared team batting helmets. HHYA Board highly recommends parents supply their own batting helmet.

An outline of the reasons for this decision and explanation of your options going forward are as follows:

Information relevant to the helmet decision:

1. Sizing of helmets. With 5 batting helmets shared among 12-13 players, and with runners on base, there exists the situations where improperly fitting batting helmets are being worn by players whereas, individual helmets would be fitted to each player, increasing the safety of the players.

2. General Sanitation. The sharing of a helmet among players transfers sweat, body fluid and skin flakes in the helmets from player to player. These helmets are then placed in a dark equipment bag and placed, often, in a hot trunk or shed for a number of days. There exists the possibility that mold, staph or other sanitation issues could exist in these helmets.

3. Lice. The shared use of a single baseball helmet can be the carrier to transmit lice to huge number of children. In recent years there have been multiple cases of lice in area schools.

4. Batting helmets are not an expensive equipment item for parents relative to other items or other sports. An approved batting helmet typically costs between $15-$35 depending on brand and features.

The National Federation of State High School Associations warns that besides improper fit, that sharing helmets may spread fungus and mold and strongly recommends that each player have their own helmet.