2025 spring ball sort outs!, News (Ottawa West Little League)

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Mar 31, 2025 | Krista | 77 views
2025 spring ball sort outs!
April is sort out month at OWLL!

The goal of spring ball is to provide a safe, fun, developmental environment for players and coaches. In order to do that, we want to make sure that kids are playing with and against players of a comparable skill level. All sort outs are held at an indoor facility (either the Kanata Sensplex Fieldhouse or Sir Robert Borden High School gym).

The goal of the sort outs is to create teams that are balanced with similarly skilled players so that the season is fun for everyone. To accomplish that, all players are asked to attend the sort out for their division, where they will be required to run trough a series of drills to evaluate throwing, fielding, batting, and movement. After completing the drills, the evaluation data will be used to place each player in one of the two streams of play - A/Canadian or B/National, and then divide them onto teams. There may be several revisions to ensure balance.

The sort outs take place over two weekends, and players are divided by division and last name. The full sort out schedule can be seen above, but it will also be shared via e-mail, on our website, and our social media accounts. Sort outs will be completed by April 13th.

Players are asked to wear comfortable clothes (t-shirt and baseball pants/sweat pants), a jock/jill, running shoes or indoor cleats (no outdoor cleats permitted), and bring a helmet, glove, water, and a bat if they have one. Players should plan on arriving no more that 15 minutes before their time slot.  They must sign in, collect their number or numbered pinnie and prepare for warm up and the evaluation activities.

After the teams are formed, coaches are given their rosters and will contact their players. The league tries to complete this process as quickly as possible to give the coaches as much lead time as they can before the season starts.

 
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