When are your seasons?

[The Man In Blue]

Off-shoot from another thread ...

I know things are a bit different everywhere you go, so when are your seasons for softball?

In Illinois:

Middle School/Junior High is in the fall — started games today (practices started July 29) and State is at the end of September.

High School is in the spring — start practices the beginning of March with games starting mid-March. State is the first week of June.

Travel ball ... just about any other time! The “summer” season tournaments will start as early as late-April with state tournaments around the 4th of July. Fall travel ball isn’t as common around here. August is pretty well a down month and you may find a few tournaments on the weekend in September and October. We do have a couple of indoor facilities within an hour or so that will run some winter tournaments.

Rec ball ... when I ran our local program, we would allow teams to start practicing after April 1 or Easter (whichever was later) and would start games the week after Mothers Day. Season was done by 4th of July.

 

[CMMom1740]

GA:

High school is early August through late September. If you make it all the way to state, you're going until mid-October.

Then TB starts up, including several showcases/tournaments in November. Strength/conditioning/agility Dec-mid Feb. Last year, we started the TB season in FL in mid-Feb. Play March through end of July. Tryouts last week of July through mid-August and then rinse, lather, repeat.

 

[KPower]

GA:

High school is early August through late September. If you make it all the way to state, you're going until mid-October.

Then TB starts up, including several showcases/tournaments in November. Strength/conditioning/agility Dec-mid Feb. Last year, we started the TB season in FL in mid-Feb. Play March through end of July. Tryouts last week of July through mid-August and then rinse, lather, repeat.

Very similar in Colorado except state is late October here.


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[Northball]

Minnesota: All school ball starts in the spring with first practices allowed about March 11. Almost always starts with indoor practices since there is usually still snow on the fields. First games allowed around March 21, but most don't get going until around April 1. Had a lot of games well into April called off the last couple of years because they were snowed out or below 40 degrees. We could use a little more global warming up here. State tourney played first week of June.
A little travel ball in the spring, but most kids are playing school ball. Travel and rec ball hits full stride June and July. Tryouts for the next year's travel teams are generally in early August. Travel and some rec ball leagues are available in the fall, but not as many participants and it's a little more relaxed. Winter brings domeball for the die-hards. Common to have a session before Christmas break and another session after. Every major and minor holiday seems to have its own tournament as well.

 

[MNDad]

Minnesota: All school ball starts in the spring with first practices allowed about March 11. Almost always starts with indoor practices since there is usually still snow on the fields. First games allowed around March 21, but most don't get going until around April 1. Had a lot of games well into April called off the last couple of years because they were snowed out or below 40 degrees. We could use a little more global warming up here. State tourney played first week of June.
A little travel ball in the spring, but most kids are playing school ball. Travel and rec ball hits full stride June and July. Tryouts for the next year's travel teams are generally in early August. Travel and some rec ball leagues are available in the fall, but not as many participants and it's a little more relaxed. Winter brings domeball for the die-hards. Common to have a session before Christmas break and another session after. Every major and minor holiday seems to have its own tournament as well.

Welcome Northball!, Lot’s of good info on this site. Enjoy your journey!

 

[marriard]

Florida.... well....

High School is 2nd or third week of January through mid-late May. Next season (2020) first day will be Jan 20th. State finals week of May 18th-22nd.

Travel is January through December. Last tourney this season is Dec 21st. We play Jan 4th or 11th as well. This has killed rec though some programs are starting to come back as travel teams have realised that they are running out of players with no good entry point into the game.

Technically USSSA stops after their world series and PGF stops tournaments for August but there is always tournaments from someone and August is camp season so if you WANT to play in August you certainly still have lots of choices.

Our team takes all of August off, though since we are a recruiting age team lots of girls have been at various camps.

The advantages of the sun being out all year long.

Oh, missed one. For some unknown reason, some high schools in the Orlando/Tampa part of Florida have a high slow pitch season in Oct-Dec. No one cares except some idiot coaches many who demand their players play in it. Everyone hates it.

 

[DefiantGray]

Florida....well...depends on the area of the state.

Just to add to Florida. NE Florida(Jax) HS ball has fall ball. Sept-Oct. pretty much Its double-header one night of the week vs other schools. its sorta like a 2 month tryout before the season starts in Feb. August is definitely a rest period for TB

 

[fuzzy2651]

Here in Michigan our TB season runs starts in August with tryouts being the last week in July through the first week of August. No middle school or HS fall ball in my area, so can't speak for the rest of the state. Practice moves indoors towards the end of Oct and then it's dome tournaments until late March/early April. HS usually does winter conditioning and training with official practices starting in March. State tourney starts is in June.

 

[Orange Socks]

Texas:
HS: Fall-some schools play in the fall by playing double headers on Monday nights-No HS coaches allowed to coach.
Spring-practices start around Feb 1st. and final tourney ends early June.

TB is all year round with the exception of 16U/18U teams that go dark during HS season. Summer TB season starts in May as HS teams start getting eliminated from playoffs.
Fall-Organizational tryouts are the week after the last PGF tourney-There's kind of a unwritten Texas Softball Illuminati rule that no tryouts shall be conducted before the last national tourney of the summer. You do not want to be black balled! Teams will usually take a few weeks off after tryouts and then begin practices.

Rec Ball-Fall season and Spring season with Summer All Stars

 

[OK04dad]

Oklahoma:

School ball: Practices start mid-July or so, state championships around mid-October

Competitive: Spring - early tourneys will try to schedule late Feb (weather sketchy), seasons wrap up in July
Fall - depending upon age will start around 1st of Sept (school ball ages, 14u and up, won't get rolling until school ball ends) and will go into late November.