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Tball Coachs FAQs Baseball Coaches, FieldsFields are assigned by the City of Plano. We have no control over where we play and we won’t know where we play until after registration closes. The City of Plano takes our enrollment numbers and assigns fields based on that. This is one reason why the schedules are not completed until about a week before the season starts. Please be patient.
Game TimesJr. Tball: Games times for t-ball are Saturdays (8am-5pm start times), Sunday (1pm-5pm start times). If we get a lot of rain, there may be a makeup during the week at 6:00pm.
T-ball and Kindergarten T-ball: Games times for t-ball are Saturdays (8am-5pm start times), Sunday (1pm-5pm start times), and some weeknights (6:00pm start times).
Coach Pitch/MKP: Game times are Saturdays (8am-7pm start times), Sundays (1pm-5pm start times), and weeknights (6pm and 7:30pm start times). Fields are assigned by the city based on the number of players/teams in the league. They assume that we have 2 games a night during the week and assign fields accordingly. We are given just enough slots to play our games. We try to minimize the 7:30 slots during the school year by playing more Sunday games.
3rd-8th Grade: Game times are Saturdays (8am-8pm start times), Sundays (1pm-5pm start times), and weeknights (6pm and 8pm start times). Fields are assigned by the City of Plano based on the number of players/teams in the league. They assume that we have 2 games a night during the week and assign fields accordingly. We are given just enough slots to play our games. We try to minimize the 8:00pm slots during the school year by playing more Sunday games.
The season starts the first weekend in May and will try to be completed by the end of June. This is subject to change based on the amount of rain throughout the season.
Practices Practices are organized by the coaches. PSA does not track nor know what days of the week a coach practices nor do we know where he practices. Once you are assigned a team, we cannot change you because of the practice days/times. Please work with your coach to come up with a solution that best meets everyone’s needs.
Team AssignmentsWhen completing the registration, please be sure to fill in the school. For those younger players that are in pre-school, please put the school that they will be going to for kindergarten.
We use the school/zip code to place kids on teams. We place kids as close to the school/zip code as best we can. This is easier in the younger groups, but as teams get older and come in formed, it may be difficult to get a neighborhood team. We do the best we can based on what slots are available.
Schedule ConflictsCoaches, please submit a schedule conflict if there are certain dates that you cannot play. We cannot guarantee all that are submitted, so please be sure to put only those that would stop you from fielding a team and therefore would have to forfeit. Please do not put a schedule conflict if your 'best' player won't be there or if the head coach cannot be there. There are always assistant coaches willing to step in to help for the day.
The more conflicts you put, the less likely you are to get all of your requests. There are only a limited number of game slots available and we cannot accommodate too many schedule request. We cannot schedule around individual player's other sports. We will make sure that if a coach has 2 or more Baseball teams, that their initial schedule will not contain conflicts, but if we get a lot of rain and have a lot of make-ups, we cannot guarantee that there will not be conflicts.
Once the schedule is published, we do not re-schedule any games other than for PISD events. Please remember that when we make a schedule change, it affects 26 families.
Some of the key things that we are always asked to change the schedule for are listed below. If we do not know about the ahead of time, we will schedule your team and will not be able to re-schedule if you cannot get a team together:
Team Size/Team Make-upOur goal is to make sure that every child that wants to play Baseball has a team. Teams must have a minimum of 13 players. Teams with fewer than 13 players will be filled from open registration. If you wish to carry only 12 players, you will be required to pay for the extra slot before registration closes. Once registration closes, if that slot is not paid for, we will assign you a child.
The only exception to this is that if we do not have enough kids in open registration to fill your team to 13. In that case, you will not be responsible for paying for that 13th slot.
Last year as we were moving away from combining several grades into one league, we allowed teams to carry 2 older kids from their previous years team that now, due to the splitting of leagues, would be too old. This was our Grandfather Clause. We no longer have the Grandfather Clause and all teams are by grade. Each roster will be reviewed and this will be strictly enforced. It is a safety issue for the other kids in the league. |
