Alberta Girls Baseball

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MISSION

The Alberta Girls’/Women’s Baseball Program is dedicated to developing and advancing baseball for female athletes.  The program will be recognized for its endorsement of female participation and excellence in baseball, and for the provision of superior programs, resources, and instruction to foster success.  It is the mission of the female program to teach and inspire female athletes through developmental experiences to be life-long learners and participants in the sport of baseball.  The program is committed to the values of integrity, fairness, respect, and responsibility to prepare athletes for lives of success.

The Alberta Girl’s/Women’s Baseball Program strives to create sustainable and exceptional programs for female athletes by targeting increased participation and athlete development at the grassroots level.  An administrative structure to ensure the success and sustainability of female baseball in Alberta will be created.  Athletes can expect to receive the knowledge, skills, and values they need to achieve their full potential, and realize their worth as a member of a team and as an individual.  Encouragement to be competitors and not just participants.

STRUCTURE AND VISION

The Alberta Girls’/Women’s Baseball Program is a cooperative effort of Baseball Alberta and Little League Alberta.  Members of both organizations form a Provincial committee to further expand the opportunities for female participation in the sport of baseball in our province.

The Alberta Girls’/Women’s Program commits itself to providing superior programs for its athletes by developing goals, strategies, and specific tasks which:

  • Promote and encourage female participation and involvement in baseball as coaches, competitors, administrators and/or umpires.
  • Target increased participation and athlete development at the grassroots level.
  • Offer development camps to enhance the technical, tactical, emotional, physical, and psychological development of the athletes.
  • Maintain and improve the flow of female athletes into Team Alberta high performance programs, including athlete identification and development.
  • Set policy, procedure, and criteria for coaching staff selection.
  • Set policy for athlete recruitment, eligibility, and selection.

PROGRAMMING

 

Female athletes from all baseball and softball backgrounds and organizations are eligible to participate.

 

Female athletes are offered programming and encouraged to participate in the following ways:

 

  • Player Development Camps and Girl’s Baseball days hosted throughout the province.
  • Participation in regular season baseball programs offered in their local home leagues.  (All leagues in Baseball Alberta and Little League Alberta are coed participation)
  • Participation in Provincial Girl’s Mosquito (10-11) championships yearly in the summer.

 

In addition, Baseball Alberta directly administers the following high performance programming:

 

  • Talent ID Camps to identify and select high performance female athletes to represent the province on the Team Alberta Pee Wee (12-13), Bantam (14-16) and Open Division (17+) teams at Western Regional and Baseball Canada National Championships.