For the 2010 season, Saturday March 13th, 2010 @ the Indoor Soccer Park (off Lisbon Ave, just West of Calhoun). Players need to be there the entire time, show up 30-15 minutes early for check in.

Juniors (13-15 yr olds): 11:30am - 1:30pm, check in from 11:00 - 11:20am

Majors (11-12 yr olds): 2:00pm - 4:00pm, check in from 1:30 - 1:50pm

AAA (9-10 yr olds): 4:30pm - 6:30pm, check in from 4:00 - 4:20pm.

NOTE: EBA Tournament team tryouts will be held after the EBLL Tryouts, If EBLL Tryouts end early, they will start early. Please be in attendance. See the ebatournament.com web site for more information.

Child moving up into AAA, Majors or Juniors (mainly 9, 11 and 13 year olds, as of April 30th of the season).

Child is new to the division (AAA, Majors, Juniors) and is older than 9 years old (as of April 30th of the season).

Players wishing to re-enter the draft. Make sure you contact EBLL Player Agent, President and League Representative regarding you want to re-enter the draft. See Policies page regarding reentering the draft.

EBLL conducts tryouts each year for new players to the league and players moving up in age to the next age division. These are not tryouts in the sense that players are cut - the purpose is for skills evaluation so that managers (head coaches) have a basis for drafting players to teams. The purpose of the draft is to spread the talent with the intent of making the league more balanced and competitive. Every player who attends tryouts will be drafted to a team unless they are on "waiting list" status. Players on the waiting list will only be placed on a team if someone withdraws in their age division. Who gets drafted where is confidential and is not communicated by managers to any player.

During tryouts, we have a large number of players to get through a series of drill stations in a relatively short period of time. Each coach needs to look at each player so it is only possible to divide the players by draft pool (AL/NL for Majors and AAA and one pool for Juniors). Several years ago, we moved these tryouts to Brookfield Indoor Soccer park so that players (and coaches) would be warmer during the process. This limits the amount of field time that is available for each tryout session.

Players and parents should not be concerened about the number of swings during the batting or the number of grounders during that drill. coaches understand that players are rusty and frankly do not pay much attention to how many the player hit or fielded. Coaches are looking at how a player sets up, how they move, how they run, how they throw, and their bat speed - id really does not matter beyond that. Most coaches can look at 3 swings and two grounders and have a very accurate impression of ability.

Players should be contacted by coaches within 1 week of tryouts to let them know which team they are on for the season.

Q: What if I miss the tryouts?
A: We will ask the previous manager information about your child. We will give that info to all the coaches. The board will also discuss and may place your child on a team by the player agent.

Q: What should my son bring
A: Bat if you have one, Glove, tennis shoes (indoor soccer park)

Q: What if I have other plans, are there make-ups
A: We dont normally have make-ups.

Q: What if my son/daughter has a bad tryout?
A: It is Winter, we dont expect kids to be in full season form.

Q: What if my child can only make a portion of the tryout?
A: Contact the player agent prior to tryouts via e-mail. We will make a note of it.