Softball - Travel

Come join the program that’s producing:

• Spring 2024 Parkway League 12U Regular Season Champions
• Summer 2024 Parkway League 10U Class-C Tournament Champions
• Summer 2024 Parkway League 12U Tournament Elite Eight
• Summer 2024 Parkway League 14U Tournament Final Four

Season Length – the season will run for 7-8 weeks [Beginning in early September]

Amount of Games per week – usually 1-to-2 games per week

Game scheduling - flexible in the fall

PAL encourages our athletes to participate in multiple sports and recognizes Fall Softball is traditionally in its off-season.  Travel softball coaches are expected to schedule and work around in-season PAL sports like soccer and field hockey.

Fall Softball is typically less competitive than Summer Softball and focuses on player development.

We will be participating in the Summer D2 Parkway League [8U, 10U, 12U and 14U]

Spring Teams will remain intact with adjustments being made for any vacancies from

non-returning travel players or new players registrations.

GAMES & PRACTICES

Games will be played during the week (1 – 2 games)

10- regular season games plus playoffs

Practice (1 – 2 practices a week) will be scheduled by coaches at their discretion.

Players should bring their own equipment (gloves, facemasks, bat, helmet) and catchers should bring their catching gear if they have their own.

Players should also bring plenty of water!

Independent coaches evaluate players over the course of winter training sessions to determine team placement, rather than a one-day, two-hour tryout. We hope to encourage on-going improvement, healthy competition, and give the players the most accurate evaluations, using this approach.

• Tryouts consist of evaluation of speed, hitting, fielding, arm-strength, pitching, and catching
• Once we go thru the evaluation process, we will assign girls to the proper team within their appropriate age division.
• We hope that we can roster every player that has registered, but that will be dependent on roster sizes and if we have room at each age level.
• PLACEMENT ON A TEAM IS NOT GUARANTEED, however, we will make every effort to place everyone. 

BH PAL will make as many travel teams as possible based on the number of kids that register, and if volunteers are available to coach.

We are looking for volunteers to help at each tryout, but you cannot volunteer in the same tryout that your daughter is participating in.

Please email me at rfolty@bhpal.org if you are available to assist with things like player check-in, hitting grounders/fly balls, pitching during hitting evaluations, etc.

Included in your spring registration is indoor training from early February to late March to prepare for the Spring Season.

Starting in February, we will begin our Winter Training at Gamers Academy in Berkeley Heights (343 Snyder Avenue). Winter training will be done by age group (8U/10U/12U) and will be lead by our coaching staff.

For 10U and 12U players, GRIT has customized an 8-week softball program for our players to get faster and stronger for the 2024 Season. There are 15-spots available (First come, first serve). Monday thru Friday, 7:30pm-8:30pm (1-day/week). Cost is $297. Contact Roger Foltynewicz at rfolty@bhpal.org if interested.