2024 Balancing and Team Selection Guidelines
2024 Approach Balancing for U9, U11, U13, U15 and U18
Week 1 - Skills Evaluation Sessions - May 21st through May 25th:
Tuesday, May 21st
- 6:00 - 7:30pm - 13U
- 7:30 - 9:00pm - 18U
Wednesday, May 22nd
- 6:00 - 7:30pm - 11U
- 7:30 - 9:00pm - 15U
Thursday, May 23rd
- 6:00 - 7:30pm - 13U
- 7:30 - 9:00pm - 18U
Saturday, May 25th
- 9:00 - 10:30am - 9U (a 2nd U9 session to be held on Tuesday, May 28th - 6:00pm at Penhorn Field)
- 9:00 - 10:30am - 11U
- 10:30 -12:00pm - 15U
Week 2 - Exhibition / Mini Game Evaluations - May 27th through May 30th **updated, May 26th, 2024**
All players are expected to attend their dates for Exhibition Game(s). Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in, warm up and be prepared to start promptly at the scheduled time. Players will be assigned to evaluation teams when they arrive and some divisions will play multiple games each evening. Players should come prepared as they would for a regular DDMBA league games.
- 11U - Monday, May 27th and Wednesday, May 29th, 6:00pm at Woodside 2
- 13U - Tuesday, May 28th and Thursday, May 30th, 6:00pm at Woodside 1
- 15U - Monday, May 27th and Wednesday, May 29th, 6:00pm at Woodside 1
- 18U - Tuesday, May 28th and Thursday, May 30th (if needed), 7:00pm at Woodside 2
Rainouts will be played on Saturday, June 1st (
if needed) at Woodside. Please keep an eye on
Field Conditions for updates by 3:00pm.
Teams will be finalized once all Exhibition Games for each division are complete, stay tuned for communications from coaches after June 1st.
The DDMBA Board has introduced new Recreation Rules on Team Balancing for local Associations fielding multiple teams at the same age division. These can be found at https://ddmba.net/content/rec-league-rules.
