if you are a player or parent of a player who registered individually for SFYBL through SF Rec & Park you will be notified via email from SF Rec & Park on Monday February 27th of the coach that is assigned to your team. Your practice time/day and locations are the ones that you registered for through the SF Rec & Park online system.
For more information for those who registered individually through SF Rec & Park you can contact Emmanuel Blackwell at 415-292-2046 or emmanuel.blackwell@sfgov.org
Several coaches and parents have inquired about their team’s practice field location, day, and time.
SF Rec & Park just closed Spring field requests last week. They have close to 2,000 field requests from various leagues (e.g. SFYBL, Parish League, high school baseball, etc.). It’s going to take them about three weeks to process all requests.
Field permits will be given to us on March 2, and we will immediately begin distributing them to all teams in our league who have completed our registration process (which includes entering all your players in our online player entry system).
Practices start on March 5.
The deadline to place orders for player and parent uniforms was February 9th. We are going to extend that by a few days to accommodate those teams who did not see our previous mentions of this as well as teams who did not order extra jerseys for additional players and/or coaches.
If you have not ordered jerseys yet or need to order additional ones you can as long as your order form and check reaches us by this Saturday, Feb. 18. Order and check ($35 per jersey) should be sent to:
SFYBL
c/o Chet Spirlin
33 Samoset St.
San Francisco, CA. 94110
If you did not place a uniform order, and you are a K-3 team, your team was assigned a color and sizing based on the age level of your team. For PONY league teams that opted to buy uniforms, they will arrive the week of March 12th and you will be contacted as to how to go about picking them up. For K-3 teams, uniforms will arrive the week of March 19th and you will be contacted as to how to go about picking them up. Please do not request to order additional uniforms for added players or coaches or parents. We cannot accommodate these requests.
Also, please note that as stated previously at the coaches meetings, registration, and the uniform order form: JERSEYS DO NOT COME WITH PANTS!! Coaches, you will need to make sure your players have matching baseball pants to play in.
Contrary to the misleading no-play date text area (since redacted) on the hard copy team roster forms you turned in at team registration, all no-play date requests need to be done electronically. Online no-play date submissions are the only source the league scheduler will be referencing when trying to accommodate teams’ no-play date requests.
Each team gets one no-play date. You can request more, but one is all the scheduler can guarantee. No games will be scheduled on April 7 (Saturday), so there’s no need to list that date.
We have emailed all team registration coaches the URL for making your no-play date request (please check your email!)
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. It is simply impractical for the league scheduler to sort through 158 teams worth of handwritten submissions…when electronic counterparts can be sorted, grouped, and filed in a fraction of the time with far less of chance of getting misread or misplaced.
Also, 39 league teams still have not entered any of their roster information online yet. If you’re a coach for one or more of those teams, please take a 15-20 minutes to enter your players online.
In an effort preserve existing team integrity during this transitional year from grade-based divisions to PONY League age-based divisions, the SFYBL board has decided to alter the age cut-off date to December 31 (from April 20) for this season only.
The age cut-off dates for in-season play are now:
Mustang: May 1, 2001 – December 31, 2003
Bronco: May 1, 1999 – December 31, 2001
Pony: May 1, 1997 – December 31, 1999
Again, these dates are for this transitional year season only. Summer tournament teams and the 2013 season on will use April 30 as the age cut-off date.
Individual registration to SF Rec & Park begins online today at 10:00 AM.
Individual registration is for players who do not have team. You register your child online through SF Rec & Park, and they will assign your child to a SF Rec & Park rec center-based team.
Online individual registration is at:
Team registrations begin tomorrow (Sat., Jan. 28) and are done at in-person registration sessions.
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SFYBL Team Registration Step by Step for K-3 divisions
1 – Organize Your Roster – determine what players and coaches are going to be on the team
2 – Collect Waivers – all players must fill out a waiver form – available in our Forms section
3 – Fill out the Roster form – available in our Forms section
4 – Bring Completed Roster, Waivers, and Registration fees to one of the Registration Sessions on 1/28, 1/31 or 2/2, where you will receive a priority code for practice field requests. Fingerprinting for “NEW” coaches will be done by appointment only, call Marianne Kjobmand at 415-831-6327 to make an appointment. First 2 coaches per team are free, $20 fee for each additional coach.
5 – Log on to SF Rec and Park site (www.sfrecpark.org) with your priority code and request top 5 practice fields and times (more direction regarding sfreconline.com specifics will be given out at the Registration Sessions)
6 – Determine the jersey size for each player on your team and what # they want on the back. Jerseys are also available in adult sizes for coaches and parents for $35 (includes an SFYBL hat)
7 – Fill out the Jersey Order Form – available in our Forms section
8 – Bring Completed Order Form to one of the Uniform Order Collection Sessions on 2/7 or 2/9, where you will pick out a uniform color for your team. Color selection will be on a first come, first served basis. There is no guarantee of same color as last year.
9 – Determine what equipment your team already has and what equipment you still need. If necessary, take up a collection among team parents and split the costs across the team.
• T-Ball teams will need a tee, a couple of bats, a set of bases, 4 batting helmets, and catcher’s gear (catcher is a position in T-ball – this player receives the ball from the infield after the play ends). Each player should have a glove. The league will supply each team with 1 dozen baseballs. You’ll also need some sort of equipment bag to transport the equipment.
• 1st – 3rd Grade teams will need a few bats, a set of bases, four batting helmets, and catcher’s gear. Each player should have a glove. The league will supply each team with 1 dozen baseballs. You’ll also need some sort of equipment bag to transport the equipment.
10 – Wait for communication from SFYBL regarding a date, time and location to come and pickup your team’s uniforms.
SFYBL Team Registration Step by Step for PONY divisions
1 – Organize Your Roster – determine what players and coaches are going to be on the team
2 – Collect Waivers – all players must fill out a waiver form – available in our Forms section
3 – Fill out the Roster form – available in our Forms section
4 – Bring Completed Roster, Waivers, and Registration fees to one of the Registration Sessions on 1/28, 1/31 or 2/2, where you will receive a priority code for practice field requests. Fingerprinting for “NEW” coaches will take place at the registration sessions. First 2 coaches are free, $20 fee per coach after that.
5 – Log on to SF Rec and Park site (www.sfrecpark.org) with your priority code and request top 5 practice fields and times (more direction regarding sfreconline.com specifics will be given out at the Registration Sessions)
6 – If your team needs Uniforms, you can order them at a cost of $35 per player. Jerseys are also available for coaches and parents at the same price (includes an SFYBL hat)
7 – Determine the jersey size for each player on your team and what # they want on the back.
8 – Fill out the Jersey Order Form – available in our Forms section
9 – Bring Completed Order Form to one of the Uniform Order Collection Sessions on 2/7 or 2/9, where you will pick out a uniform color for your team. Color selection will be on a first come, first served basis. There is no guarantee of same color as last year.
10 – Each player will be responsible for purchasing a pair of pants. Any color is acceptable as long as all players on that team have the same color.
11 – Determine what equipment your team already has and what equipment you still need. If necessary, take up a collection among team parents and split the costs across the team.
•Teams will need a couple of bats, a set of bases, 4 batting helmets, and catcher’s gear. Each player should have a glove and a protective cup. The league will supply each team with 1 dozen baseballs. You’ll also need some sort of equipment bag to transport the equipment.
12 – Wait for communication from SFYBL regarding a date, time and location to come and pickup your team’s uniforms.
Individual player registration will open January 27 at 10:00 AM. Individual player registration is for players who do not have a team and is done directly through SF Rec & Parks online system (sfreconline.org).
Team registration for existing or newly formed teams will be done at any of our three team registration dates/times. See previous posts on the topic for details. (you can click the word “Registration” in the tag cloud at the bottom right of the home page to see all posts relevant to registration.
Tonight (Tuesday, Jan. 17) is the second and final coaches meeting.
The coaches meetings are for coaches/prospective coaches only (not for players or non-coaching parents). At the meeting you will receive info on such things as team registration, league structure, game/practice scheduling, etc. Coach attendance is not mandatory but is highly recommended.
There will be two separate meetings tonight: the first will be from 5-7 PM for K-3 coaches only; the second will be from 7-9 PM for PONY divisions coaches only. The meetings will be at the SF County Fair Building auditorium on the south edge of Golden Gate Park (just north of Lincoln Way/9th Ave.).
Team registration for the 2012 SYBL season begins on January 28, 2012.
There are two registration paths: a) registering as a team at one of the SFYBL team registration sessions (Jan. 28, Jan 31, and Feb. 2; or b) as an individual through SF Rec & park’s online registration system (sfreconline.com).
If you already have (or will have by one of the team registration dates) a coach and a group of 11+ kids all within the parameters of a specific grade-based division (e.g. K, 1, 2, 3) or an age-based PONY division (e.g. Mustang [9-10], Bronco [11-12], or Pony [13-14]) you should register as a team at a team registration session. Team registration is done by a coach or adult representing the team only.
If you are an individual player without a team we recommend you register online directly through SF Rec & Park. Individual players also have the option of requesting an open spot on an existing team needing players. We will do our best to place you, but there are no guarantees that we will be able to do so. Registering through SF Rec & Park ensures you will get a team if you are individual player without a team.
The fee for team registration is $60 per player for T-Ball through 3rd grade divisions and $450 per team for PONY divisions.
