2017 CCLL Intermediate House Team

Coach

• Raj Roychoudhury
  • 6 years experience coaching in CCLL, including experience with current 13 year-olds, 6 years of relationships and training experience with local professional baseball trainers
  • Additional youth coaching experience – 6 years soccer and 5 years basketball
  • Positive coaching alliance certified

Goals

Our goals are to (1) teach the positive life lessons that best come from sports (positive attitude, desire to be better, work ethic, focus, being self-motivated/drive) that will (2) help them master the baseball skills to compete at a high level. So, regardless of their skill level now, we can help (3) increase their confidence in themselves and (4) increase their love for sports (75-80% of kids drop out of sports entirely by age 15, including those that are in travel ball and more intense leagues).  The final goal (5) is to win (which will happen a lot if we do 1-4 correctly) but by putting that as the final goal, we avoid the negative "win-at-all-costs" influences that limit our kids' definition of success, model bad behavior, hurt teamwork and shake a player's confidence by focusing too much on the outcome vs. the process of working to be their best.

Why?

• There is an extremely high % chance youth baseball can have a positive impact on your child’s well-being that lasts into their adult years
  • Youth athletes report healthier eating habits, higher levels of cardiovascular fitness, increased parental support, and decreased anxiety and depression.
  • Studies show a positive association between participating in school sports and lower rates of tobacco, drug, and alcohol use.
  • Participating in sports is associated with higher levels of self-esteem, motivation, and overall psychological well-being.
• There is an extremely low % chance your child will be the next Derek Jeter
  • 5,000,000 kids play baseball in the U.S., 400,000 will play high school, 1,500 will be drafted, 500 will make it 2 years in the Minors and 100 will make it to the major leagues.(source: littleleague.org)

Tryouts & Team Selection

• Tryouts - TBD
• Team Announcement - December TBD

Pre-season rules, playbook and fundamentals practice begins in January

• Locations TBD but will include:
  • Blacktop at local elementary, TPC-Pleasanton, HitLab-Dublin, Jason Kiercher Sports-San Ramon (Cost of each optional professional instruction split among attendees)
• Schedule:
  • 1 day per week in January

On Field Practices Schedule (beginning February 2017)

• Weekday  TBD (TBD)
• Weekend 1 TBD (TBD)
• Weekend 2 TBD (TBD)

Regular Season

• Begins in March
• Games on Wednesday and Saturday
• Season starts at 50/70 and transitions to 54/80 in late April/early May
• Sunday on-field practice schedule + optional professional instruction continues

Team Building

• Optional local team social get-togethers multiple times per month
• 1-3 optional team outings to professional, college or high school games

Post Season

• Post-season league tournament TBD
• Opportunity to try-out for District All-Star team and potential participation in Little League Intermediate World Series (if District team wins District 57 tournament)

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(Registrations after October 31 are an additional $75.  Registrations will continue until teams are selected in December. Registrations after Nov. 30 are an additional $50)