Registration is closed.

Thank you all for a great Fall Season!  We made it safely without a single case of COVID being identified.  That is a testament to the program safety guidelines, coaches, players and most of all the parents following the guidelines.

I would like to THANK the following people who made it all possible:

• Coaches - your coaches happily volunteer their time and we can't have a program without them.  Please give your coaches a big thank you!  All coaches are volunteers and are deserving of our passionate thanks.  Especially given the trying times we are currently in.
• Parent Volunteers - to those volunteers who help organize team snacks, team events, rake fields, shag balls, help the coaches out in every way - thank you!  
• Board Members:  Many do dual duty coaching and running the program.  Please give a big thank you to:  Trey Lackey, Donovan McKeown, John Burns, Sarah Tisinger, Michael Rager, Natalie Rose, Dave Wells, and John Philipps.  They do the behind the scenes work that allows us to offer a great program.
• CYA - without the great work of Mark Abbott, Executive Director of CYA, the CYA Board, Zack and the Field House staff, and all the Sports Coordinators, we would not have had a season.  They were on top of all the information coming out from various sources - CDC, Virginia, VHSL, NCAA, etc. ... they digested all that information, consulted with the County and other experts, and were able to help the CYA sports roll out a SAFE summer/fall season in many sports.  It was a herculean effort.  

Please note that we will be opening registration in January most likely, so please stay tuned. 

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CYA Softball:

• Safety is our number one priority.  As you can imagine, the Corona virus has caused us to take a pause and do some serious, in depth analysis and planning to see how we can provide a safe program for the kids
• We have reviewed the guidlines issues by the CDC, Virginia Governor and some Softball Associations. We are able to extract some best practices from those sources.
• We are committed to bringing you a fall softball season, but it will be modified to mitigate risks with player safety as the highest priority. 
• National (NCAA), State and Local organizations have declared diamond sports as the least risky of our sports.
• CYA softball program details were email out to the registrants of the past few seasons.

Informational Links:

CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/youth-sports.html

Virginia Safer at Home Phase Three: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/Forward-Virginia-Phase-Three-Guidelines.pdf

NCAA Information: http://www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/resocialization-collegiate-sport-developing-standards-practice-and-competition

USSSA (softball association):  https://usssa.com/docs/2020/Covid19-ReturnToPlay-v2.pdf