A child’s grade is used to determine the player’s age group. This allows children and parents to interact outside of the school environment. Factors such as availability of volunteer coaches, gender, and the number of players within a geographic area have a bearing on placement. Keeping team sizes manageable to ensure adequate playing time and to avoid cancellations will be the primary factor outside of gender and grade. We will also attempt to have an even number of teams in each league to avoid byes and maximize the playing time for any given season.

In order to achieve the desired team sizes, it will be commonplace to have players from different schools play together. To minimize the impact due to practice locations, times and school consolidation, we have elected to organize the league geographically into three divisions for team composition only.

Rosters will be assembled by school unless team sizes fall outside of our established targets. To achieve the desired targets, teams will be assembled in the following order each fall:

1. We will first assign players by the given grade, gender and school.
2. If team sizes are too big or too small we will look at combining players from different schools within their geographic division.
3. If team sizes are still not appropriate we will begin combining players from different schools outside of the division.
4. When moving players to a team made up of different schools, we will attempt to keep at least 3 players from any of the schools being combined.
5. When deciding upon which players to move, we will do so based on the date the player was registered. *

* Player registration forms must be sent to the league P.O. Box and must only contain registrations for a single household. Early registration is important.

We will make every attempt to keep the teams the same from the fall season to the spring season each year. However, if team sizes shift, players moves will be required. Team composition will likely change each fall.