Shetland, Pinto, Mustang and Bronco teams have been created and your coaches will be contacting you shortly to inform you of your first baseball practices.  The Pony division draft will occur early next week.  We will post the teams to the web-site soon.  Opening Day is Saturday, March 10^th with details to follow.  If you did not drop off a copy of your birth certificate at Skills Evaluation Day, please remember that you must drop one off on Opening Day. 

Please do not forget that we are instituting a “recycle” program for your gently-used baseball equipment and apparel.  Many of our children have outgrown, or barely used, much of their baseball equipment and apparel.  This is the perfect opportunity to find a new home for all that gear.  Our league has many new families with young players that would greatly appreciate any of these items.  Please bring your baseball gear (i.e. bats, gloves, balls, cleats, helmets, baseball pants) early to Opening Day, or give it to one of our Board Members.  We will organize and distribute the gear at our Opening Day festivities to many of our new and younger players.

Today, Carmel High School baseball will be hosting the first of two clinics this spring (February 21^st-23^rd and April 10^th-12^th) at the Carmel High School baseball fields.  The cost is only $30/day or $75 for all three days.  All proceeds go to help the baseball program. 

Dates:         2/21/12 - 2/23/12
Times:        Shetland and Pinto - 10:00 AM -12:00 PM
                  Mustang, Bronco & Pony  - 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Please register and pay on-site prior to the start of your child's clinic. 

Due to the rain expected to last for the next several days and the cumulative effect on the condition of the baseball fields, we are moving the Skills Evaluation Day from this Sunday, January 22^nd to Sunday, January 29^th.  The same schedule for each division and age group will apply.  Your child's age group is his/her age as of April 30th, 2012. 

If you are interested in coaching this year, please go to the “Coach’s Registration Form“ on our web-site and fill in the form.  Every year, we need new parents in all divisions to run and assist the player’s baseball development.  Prior to the beginning of the season, we will hold a Coach’s Clinic to assist all coaches in coaching techniques and to provide some consistency of baseball skill set development across all teams in each division. 

Please do not forget that we are instituting a “recycle” program for your gently-used baseball equipment and apparel.  Many of our children have outgrown, or barely used, much of their baseball equipment and apparel.  This is the perfect opportunity to find a new home for all that gear.  Our league has many new families with young players that would greatly appreciate any of these items.  Please bring your baseball gear (i.e. bats, gloves, balls, cleats, helmets, baseball pants) to our Skills Evaluation Day registration table on Sunday, January 29^th at the Larson baseball fields below the Carmel Mission.  We will organize and distribute the gear at our Opening Day festivities to many of our new and younger players.

If you have not already done so, please register your child for the 2012 Carmel Unified Youth Baseball (CUYB) baseball season at: 2012 CUYB Registration and Payment Forms.  The early registration process will continue until January 20^th, 2012.   All players in the Pinto, Mustang, Bronco and Pony divisions who register and pay on-line by January 20th receive a $15 discount.  Regular registration commences January 21^st, but will be at the higher annual fees.

Sunday January 22nd, CUYB will be conducting our Skills Evaluation Day for all registered 7-yr to 12-yr old players (Pinto, Mustang and Bronco players) at Larson Field near Carmel Mission.  The Larson Field Snack Bar will be open.  We will also be sponsoring a complimentary baseball clinic for each age division.  Pony division players will be conducting their Skills Evaluation Day at the Carmel Middle School Pony field.  All players should bring their own bats, gloves, helmets and cleats as they will be participating in all phases of the sport.  CUYB will have spare bats and helmets available if needed.

If you have not registered and/or paid, please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start time below to finish the process.  All players must check-in and bring a copy (not the original) of your child’s birth certificate which will be kept confidential and will verify division status.  

We are instituting a “recycle” program for your gently-used baseball equipment and apparel.  Many of our children have outgrown, or barely used, much of their baseball equipment and apparel.  This is the perfect opportunity to find a new home for all that gear.  Our league has many new families with young players that would greatly appreciate any of these items.  Please bring your baseball gear (i.e. bats, gloves, balls, cleats, helmets, baseball pants) to our Skills Evaluation Day registration table on Sunday, January 22^nd at the Larson baseball fields below the Carmel Mission.  We will organize and distribute the gear at our Opening Day festivities to many of our new and younger players.

The Larson Field clinic and skills evaluation process will last about two hours for each age group.  The schedule for our Skills Evaluation Day is as follows (all age groups are based on your child's age on April 30th, 2012):

 
Larson Field:

8-Year old's Pinto Clinic starts at 9:00 a.m.

7-Year old's Pinto Clinic starts at 10:00 a.m.

10-Year old's Mustang Clinic starts at 11:30 a.m.

9-Year old's Mustang Clinic starts at 12:30 p.m.

12-Year old's Bronco Clinic starts at 2:00 p.m.

11-Year old's Bronco Clinic starts at 3:00 p.m.

Carmel Middle School Pony Field:

13 – 14 Year old’s Skills Evaluation Day starts at 9:00 a.m.  There will not be a baseball clinic for 13-yr and 14-yr old Pony Division players. 

There are no Skill Evaluations, nor Clinics, for 4-6 year old Shetland Players.

The CUYB baseball field locations can be found at our web-site: CUYB Baseball Field Locations

All Mustang division coaches are required to evaluate the Bronco level players (2:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.) and the Bronco division coaches are required to evaluate the Mustang level players (12:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.).  Please contact your Division Director for further details.

We also need volunteers for various responsibilities throughout the year (see CUYB Volunteers Needed).  We need to fill the Grant Writer post as soon as possible. This position would locate and apply for various local grants to assist the development of our league.  He/She would work with the V.P. Communications on grant follow-up. 

Please also periodically check our Teaching Clinics web-page: Baseball Teaching Clinics

for details about local baseball clinics.  Carmel High School baseball will be hosting two clinics this spring (February 21^st-23^rd and April 10^th-12^th) at very reasonable rates for your sons or daughters.  All proceeds go to help the baseball program.  Please see details on our web-site page.

Player Registration for the 2012 baseball season is now open. 

Please click here to go to the registration and payment forms:  http://fs22.formsite.com/carmelyouthbaseball/form9/index.html?1323279898918

We want 100% of our players to register and pay on-line this year.   After you fill out the registration form, you will be directed to a PayPal page where you can pay your fees via either your credit card or your bank debit card.  You do not have to have a PayPal account to process your payment.  Just hit the “Don’t have a PayPal account” button and enter your information.

Early registration process will continue until January 20^th, 2012.   All players in the Pinto, Mustang, Bronco and Pony divisions who register and pay on-line by January 20th receive a $15 discount.  Regular registration commences January 21^st, but will be at the higher annual fees.

We have scheduled our Skills Evaluation Day for Sunday, January 22^nd (details to follow) with the rain-day the following Sunday, January 29^th.  All registrations at Skills Evaluation Day will not receive the early registration discount pricing.  At the Skills Evaluation Day, please bring a copy (not the original) of your child’s birth certificate which will be kept confidential and will verify division status.  

Our preliminary game/practice guidelines for the 2012 CUYB season are:

Pony:    Individual team schedules determined by inter-league play.

Bronco:  Two games per week: one game on Tuesday or Thursdays and one game on Saturdays.    Practices on Sundays.  Games and practices are equally distributed on the Larson and Dampierre baseball fields.

Mustang:  Two games per week: one game on Tuesday or Thursdays and one game on Saturdays.    Practices on Sundays.  Games and practices are equally distributed on the Larson and Dampierre baseball fields.

Pinto:  Two games per week: one game on Wednesdays and one game on Saturdays.    Practices are before games.  Games and practices are played on the Larson, Dampierre and Carmel Middle School Pony baseball fields.

Shetland:  Game on Saturdays and one practice per week determined by the coach.

Please visit our web-site: www.carmelyouthbaseball.org regularly as we will endeavor to make this a real-time resource for league information, requests for volunteers, coaching information, change of schedules, etc. throughout the season.

There will be a make-up photo day on Saturday, May 14th at the Pony Field at Carmel Middle School between 10 a.m. and noon.  Any player who was not able to have his/her picture taken on Opening Day is eligible.  There are two teams that did not have their complete uniforms on Opening Day, the Cubs and the Rockhounds, who will also be taking their team photos that day.  Please contact your team coach to coordinate.  Any players who have 11:30 a.m. games at Larson or Dampierre fields that day should arrive early and we will run them through first. 

Thank-you,

CUYB