RECREATIONAL BASEBALL
HVABSA's VP of Recreational Baseball - Steve White
HVA Baseball offers an experience that fosters positive self-esteem, team spirit, and individual growth through personal achievement and as a team member. We promote sportsmanship by our coaches and players and focusing on teaching the fundamentals of baseball in an environment that supports all skill levels to foster a fun playing environment.
Our mission is to assist coaches so they can help their players not only become great athletes, but also great young men. The discipline our players learn from our baseball experience will extend into their daily lives and the success they achieve from hard work and perseverance through adversity will teach life lessons that will extend far beyond the diamond.
In HVA baseball, we run two seasons, fall and spring. Spring Registration generally opens in December and fall registration generally opens in July.
Registration closes when the one of two things may occur, the registration end date is reached and/or the age division fills up and a waitlist is started. Age groups can only field as many teams as there are volunteer coaches and we strive to keep rec rosters at a max of 12 players. For Example, if an age group has 4 teams then the max for that age division will be 48, once 48 players register in that age, that division will be on a waitlist. Waitlisted players will be added, if and only if, a coach can be found. Waitlisted players will not be charged until registration is completed.
The fall season is more developmental; Standings are not kept, there is no end-of-season tourney or All Star tourneys. There are typically no player tryouts to form teams. Typically practices begin mid/late August, the season start is usually after Labor Day and until the end of October or early November.
Spring season focuses on development as well, but there is a an end-of-season tourney for each division, and an all star tourneys for ages 7U-14U. In the spring, (depending on the age group) we allow coaches to "hold or protect" a determined number of players and the rest of the players go into a tryout and draft process. This will hopefully allow the teams to be as evenly competitive as possible.
Rec Tryouts (if necessary) are in early February, teams form and begin practices mid-Feb and games begin early or mid-March. The season usually ends in mid-May and our end-of-season tourney is in late May. All Star tryouts go on in late April or early May, and All Star tourneys run from Memorial Day Weekend through the end of June.
Fall and spring schedules are subject to change and weather dependent. We strive to do our best, but the weather controls so much in outdoor sports.
Practices can be held at either Unity Park or Brazos Park in HV, or Lantana Community Church in Bartonville. Visit our field locations page for location info.