NSBA 13U & 15U Families,
Please see below for information about our 13U and 15U single season tryout and coach selection process. There is also preliminary information about house balancing below. All dates are being declared in advance to allow all participants to maximize availability.
AAA / AA Coaching:
For the 15U AAA and 13U AAA divisions, we will select the head coach from among the pool of qualified applicants following the first tryout. The AA coaches for both 15U and 13U may also be selected at that time but this may be deferred until after AAA team selection based on the player pools. As with prior years, we focus on placing players in the right tier before finalizing coaches for later tiers. Any AAA / AA head coach applicants should plan to be at the tryouts to see the player pool.
Coach Selection Policy:
https://northshorebaseball.ca/coach-selection-policy/
Coach Application Form:
https://northshorebaseball.ca/coach-application-form/
AAA/AA Tryouts:
Tryouts will be as follows:
- February 8 @ Travail/Game Ready 13U only (late afternoon/early evening)
- February 9 @ Inside Performance 15U only (late afternoon/early evening)
- February 13 @ Sunrise Park 13U/15U (late afternoon to evening, weather permitting)
- February 17 @ Inside Performance 13U/15U (late afternoon & evening)
- February 20 @ Sunrise Park (if required) 13U/15U (late afternoon to evening, weather permitting)
Specific times will be confirmed in a subsequent email which will come from your division coordinator and will depend in part on your group and declared positions. You must be registered to attend the tryout. Registration can be completed here: https://northshorebaseball.ca/registration/
Team Formation Policy:
https://northshorebaseball.ca/team-selection-and-team-drafting-policy/
The first tryout will rely primarily on independent assessors with assistance from league executives and coaches from other divisions in order to avoid conflict prior to selection of coaches. This tryout aids in part in selection of the head coach as we rely on independent evaluations to ensure players abilities drive team formation more so than coaching needs. Subsequent tryouts will have additional opportunities for volunteers to assist and sign-ups will be sent the week prior to evaluations. Team selection will be driven by the head coaches for the team, with oversight from league executives and input from independent assessors provided by Inside Performance and/or Travail.
Rosters for AAA teams at each tier are anticipated to be finalized by the end of February, but may be completed sooner. Final rosters will be approved by the Executive and signed off by the Presidents prior to communication to players.
Following completion of the AAA selection, the AA coaches will be selected and will then have the option of undertaking an additional tryout, if needed, or relying on the evaluations from the first three sessions.
House Team (A) Balancing:
Balancing for the 13U and 15U A (house) teams will take place during late February or early March, subject to availability of facilities. Please watch for a future email.
Conflict of Interest:
Both our coach and team selection policies are informed by our conflict of interest policy which can be found here: https://northshorebaseball.ca/conflict-of-interest-policy/ . An example of a conflict would be the decision to appoint a head coach in a division where an executive has a family member playing. A conflicted executive would then recuse from the head coach appointment discussion. For clarity, this does NOT require executives to remove themselves from consideration as coaches. The Executive delegates selection of assistant coaches to the appointed head coach.
Warm regards,
Nicholas Van Dyk & Melissa Jones
Co-Presidents
North Shore Baseball Association