GENERAL INFORMATION

CYO Athletics offers a softball program for girls in grades 4 through 8. (See CYO Player Eligibility Rules for guidelines). Teams are formed from catholic parishes, schools or educational institutions in the Central, Eastern, and Western areas of the Diocese of Cleveland.

Softball games are played at various fields throughout the CYO service area. League formation is based upon geography and CYO competition rules (See Bylaw 2-8 for details). Sport schedules are prepared by the CYO office and mailed to the head coaches.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

DIVISIONS OF PLAY

Varsity                        8^th grade
Junior Varsity              7^th grade
Cadet                          6^th grade
Developmental             5^th grade
Elemental                    4^th grade 

TEAM FORMATION

•   See Bylaw 2-8

ENTRY PROCESS

• A team entry form,  $295 fee, and eligibility request forms must be received from members by the stated Team Entry Deadline March 7, 2008.  This fee MUST accompany your manual team entry. Click this link to download form East Softball and West Softball team entries.

• Designees, if you sign up your parish teams online in Sports Pilot, be sure to download this team entry confirmation form  which must accompany your parish payment check.  ONLINE team entry check payments MUST BE PUT IN THE MAIL BY March 7, 2008 so we can mark your teams paid in Sports Pilot.  Online registration opens February 19, 2008.

• Designees and Coaches click here for Team Entry Information Spring Sports Designee and Coaches Letter.  Spring coaches meetings and team fees info can be downloaded from link at the bottom of this page.

• Team eligibility rosters with completed pre-participation exam information must be received from members by the stated Eligibility Roster Deadline.   Eligibility Request forms MUST be completed for all out of parish athletes playing on your team and submitted to our office with your team entries.

LOCATIONS

For facility location maps, visit this link http://www.sportsstandings.com/ClevelandCYOAthletics when you open the page, click the MAPS box link (near the top of the page.) Scroll down the list and find the facility you are searching for.

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Diocese of Cleveland

CYO SOFTBALL RULES

The Charter & Bylaws is the governing document for all CYO sports and all member parishes. It should be referred to for statements of philosophy and issues regarding eligibility, eligibility requests, adjoining parish rules, merging parishes to form a team, etc.

CLICK BELOW FOR PDF FILES OF COACHES HANDBOOK, RULES,

AND CHARTER & BYLAWS:

(DOCUMENTS IN PDF FORMAT REQUIRE ADOBE ACROBAT READER.  SEE LEFT BORDER FOR A FREE DOWNLOAD)

FAST PITCH SOFTBALL RULES (revised 2008)

2008 Softball Coaches Meeting and Fees Info

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