General Information:
All-Stars takes place immediately after the Spring Season. All registered softball players are able to self-nominate, but they must try out to be considered for the team. In order to try out for the team, the child must have parental consent. Trying out does not guarantee a slot on the team. All-Stars is a bigger time commitment for players and coaches than the regular season requirements.
Selection Process:
Commitment Requirements: If your child is selected to a 2023 All-Star Team, the following requirements must be met.
1. All-Star registration fee ($250) to be paid in full before the All-Star draft takes place, and it will only be refunded if your daughter is not selected. This fee covers uniform (one jersey, a belt, and a pair of socks), tournament emblem, field usage, insurance, and PONY tournament fees.
2. Players must be available for all All-Star activities; including but not limited to practices, practice games, team meetings, and regular scheduled games/tournaments.
3. Travel expenses (if any) are the responsibility of each player’s family.
4. Understanding that if your child is selected for one of the 2023 All-Star teams, participation in games is the coach's decision. Your child may not participate in every game at every tournament. There is no 2-inning rule during the All-Star season.
Time Commitment:
All-Star teams will practice at least 2 times a week. This effort begins immediately at the end of the regular season and will continue to the middle of July. Tournament weekends are usually Friday-Sunday, but the World Series is a whole week. Warm up tournaments, Sectionals, and Regionals are usually played in Round Rock or Georgetown. The World Series switches between Laredo, TX and Louisiana each year.
Tournaments: The dates for the current year come out in April.
Coaches Meeting: TBD
Warm Up: TBD (usually the last weekend of May)
Warm Up: TBD (usually the first weekend in June)
Sectionals: TBD (usually the second weekend in June)
Regionals: TBD (usually the fourth weekend in June)
World Series: TBD (usually the second or third week in July)
Rules:
All-Star teams will consist of at least 12 players but no more than 18 players on a team. All players must provide a copy of a birth certificate, a signed medical wavier, and a picture for the team binder. Rules for all the tournaments follow PONY rules. There is no required play time per player, so if there are more players on a team, this potentially results in less play time, or even none. We strongly encourage having frank conversations with the coach before agreeing to play.
Other:
LTYA tries to have at least one team in each age division (8U-12U) and coaches must volunteer to coach and are selected by the board. If there are enough players and coaches to be able to form more than one team in an age division, LTYA allows and encourages this. LTYA encourages the head coach to combine their coaching staff with other coaches from each team in the age division, but this is not guaranteed.