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