Return to Field/USSSA
Hello Knights Families:
We are all excited to be returning to the field for practices/scrimmages. The boys and the coaches are all looking forward to this month as we practice and prepare for what we hope is going to be a full fall season of games. Since we are having to use the City of Henderson fields at this time instead of our home Tech field due to the CCSD shutdown, and given the current state of the regulations imposed, we have to follow several safety protocols in order to continue our usage of our field permit. We have listed below some of those requirements/expectations, and we have discussed most of these with the boys at the cage practices so most of this shouldn't be an issue. We felt we should get this out to all the parents as well so you can ensure your boys are prepared...
1. Every player must arrive to practice with a mask. The players will not be required to wear the mask when they are actually on the field, engaged in practice activities, but they will need to wear them coming/going and when we are in a group discussion/non-athletic environment such as the pre/post practice talks, dugout instruction, etc.. So please have your players at least have a mask with them for those times when it's needed.
2. The coaches will all be required to wear a mask at all times unless that coach is engaged in high level physical activity such as conditioning with the players and/or pitching to the players, etc...
3. The players MUST bring their own water/hydration. We are not allowed to provide the normal water jug that we usually have full with ice water, so your players need to have their own water supply.
4. As coaches, we will do our best to follow all protocols and will try to run stations/activities to limit the amount of time the players are in close contact. Please keep in mind we practice together as an organization so we have approx 25-28 players plus a few coaches on the field at most times. While we will try to practice as safely as possible, it is impossible to play this game without some level of close interaction so please understand there is an inherent risk in participating. With that being said, if anyone is uncomfortable with having their player participate at this time, no worries, just let us know.
5. All players MUST have a signed LV Knights Waiver turned in to be able to participate. Most of you have already completed that, but if you have not, please visit the website at https://www.lvknightsbaseball.com and go to the Forms page (password: knightsforms ) You can print and fill out the forms and then have your player turn them in prior to practice. If you have already done this as most have, you are all set.
USSSA Registration:
We will be registering our 18/16/14U teams/rosters for the new 2020/2021 competition season very shortly. If you have not been on the site recently for your player/or you have never played club ball before, you must sign in or create a guardian/parent account on the usssa website. If you already have a guardian account as most of you do, you will need to sign in electronically acknowledge/sign the USSSA Return to Play Waiver before your player is eligible to be added to any roster and participate in USSSA events, including the Vegas Valley USSSA Fall League (if this goes on as planned). Please visit the USSSA website to either sign in and then complete the waiver, or to create your initial guardian/parent account.
I will send out another email as soon as I have created our team profiles for this year and added your players to the roster for you to accept the roster invites and to sign your electronic USSSA document.
There are other organizations which we play under as well, so you may receive additional emails from those organizations that you will be required to acknowledge your players addition to our roster(s).
Thank you to everyone and we can't wait to see the boys on the field for some live practices!
Coach Matt Trzpis