Women’s National Team – 2012 – USA Baseball – google spreadsheet
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Search results for USA on Girls Play Baseball
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The Slaterettes – Pawtucket, Rhode Island. While the Slaterettes are dedicated to their local girls, pioneers since 1973, in 2007, they fielded a team for the 2007 First National Girls Baseball Championship, in Ft. Myers, Florida, in conjunction with Roy Hobbs Annual World Series. Also, The Slaterettes have participated in the CanAm 2008 tournament in South Bend, Indiana, including players from throughout the continent.
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The Dream Team (including both 13U and 14U) – last count: eleven States in the Union. This past December 10-11, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada, the two teams began their 2011-12 season within the USSSA Youth Travel Baseball program. In 2010-11, the 13U team started at the USSSA AA classification; by the end of the season, they had reached the Majors level, where the Dream Team began its 2011-12 season.
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The Chicago Pioneers – it is my understanding that a team is assembled for and committed to the North Shore Baseball League of Chicago, Illinois. Their primary mission has been to provide opportunity for girls to play competitively in the Chicago area but has extended to Tournament play, both, girls playing against boys; girls and women teams against women. Most recently, for example, two teams, a 16U and a 21U team were entered into the Roy Hobbs World Series #23: each, playing against 21U teams in the same tournament.
Otherwise, the Pioneers tends to assemble girls for tournaments, utilizing players, both, from their local team and scouted from around the USA.
In 2012, A Pioneers 12U team will participate in a week of tournament play at the Cooperstown All Star Village (CASV), While the other Boys teams should be strictly age 12U, the Pioneers have received an age variance, allowing girls to play up from age 11 through age 14. in Oneonta, New York. In 2009, another 12U team participated in tournament play at Cooperstown Dreams Park.
This upcoming August 2012, during the Baseball Canada Bantam International Invitational tournament, the Chicago Pioneers intend on fielding a 16U team. More on this tournament as information becomes available.
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Baseball for All – Last discovered, Springfield Massachusetts (possibly, Boston.) Many opportunities have been available for girls in the past, since the origin of the Women’s Baseball League Sparks in 2002, a 12U travel team assembled for play in the Cooperstown Dreams Park. Past opportunities to play, ages 10-18, include BFA-branded or managed Girls Baseball tournaments (including, in 2011, in conjunction with the Pawtucket Slaterettes,) Cal Ripken Baseball, World Children’s Baseball Fair (WCBF), PONY World Series and National Youth Baseball Championship – Girls Program, Hong Kong Baseball Association’s Phoenix Cup.
The opportunity to develop play over a prolonged period includes the Girls International Baseball Academy, held at Dan Duquette’s Hinsdale, Massachusetts, Sports Academy, which, for the past two years, has provided the only opportunity for girls of all skill level, wide age range, to discover baseball – including the chance to reflect on their personal experiences, together, in a safe and supportive place.
A more recent effort is establishing a Girls Baseball Day among all Minor League Baseball teams (MiLB), each, affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB) teams.
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The Slaterettes and the Chicago Pioneers provide resources for local opportunities for girls to play baseball, at all levels of ability without necessarily the objective of Tournament play. The Slaterettes have cycled from Competitive to Developmental as the attrition of experience is replaced with enthusiasm and new talent and interest: as entirely all-girl teams in age-specific divisions in their local league.
Similar for the Chicago Pioneers, they have focused on bringing all-girl teams to otherwise all-boy league play. A wide age variance approved by their respective, local leagues, as well as the CASV, helps provide greater opportunity for more girls to get in the game.
The Dream Team has focused exclusively on building the most competitive teams to challenge the notion that only boys can compete and win in co-ed tournament play, at the 13U and 14U levels. Baseball For All’s Women’s Baseball League Sparks has been building and sponsoring competitive teams at the 11U and 12U, for play at Ripken Baseball; PONY World Series and Cooperstown Dreams Park. The Dream Team is a derivation of the BFA Sparks, though not affiliated.
Currently, as their primary mission, only the Dream Team provides the opportunity for girls to advanced into the most competitive co-ed 13U and 14U levels of pal among boys. Girl baseball players are scouted throughout the USA for team selection.
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At the 12U Travel Baseball level, the Chicago Pioneers have asked for and received approval for an age variance, for girls ages 11 and up through age 14 to play in a Nationally-establish, recognized Travel Youth Baseball Tournament, at Cooperstown All-Star Village, in Oneonta, New York.
The age variance provides a most significant opportunity to girls in baseball:
to validate this approach, we can turn to our Northern neighbor, as the Canadian Sports for Life (CS4L) program has conducted years of research, including on the matter of maturity in youth sports. If you would like to read more on this in great detail, specific to Baseball Canada’s approach, direct your web browser, here.
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Posted on February 9, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 9, 2012 Contact: Jake Fehling – jakefehling@usabaseball.com, (919) 474-8721 x225 USA BASEBALL TO HOST WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM TRYOUTS, 16U NTIS IN 2012 Tryouts to serve as selection vehicle for World Cup in August DURHAM, N.C. — … Continue reading →
Posted on February 5, 2012
The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) is announcing the eight teams, which will be participating in the V Women’s Baseball World Cup. The tournament will be played from August 10 to 19, 2012 at Telus Field in Edmonton, Canada. Defending champion …Continue reading →
The Chicago Pioneers – in Mary Jo Stegeman’s own words
Posted on December 23, 2011
The Pioneers focus is organizing and facilitating baseball training and playing opportunities for female youth and female young adult baseball players in an all-female atmosphere and on all-female teams of similar age, whether at the local, national, or international level. Jim, of the four … Continue reading →
Posted on December 16, 2011
World Series Women’s Division Standings Individual stats available on RHWS web site in January 2012 The Chicago Pioneers 21U Team won the Women’s Division Championship at the 23rd annual Roy Hobbs Baseball World Series in Ft. Myers, Florida, November 12-15. The Pioneers … Continue reading →
Girls’ Baseball Hierarchy of Needs
Posted on December 14, 2011
I attended a baseball tournament this past weekend in Las Vegas, NV, in which two teams, each comprised of only girls, 13U and 14U, respectively, represented the best players in the game, got everyone present to think different about girls. … Continue reading →
