Welcome to Rye, New Hampshire Little League!
Upcoming
Board Meetings
Regular Board Meetings are held at the Rye Junior High
School on the second
Tuesday
of each month at 7:00 p.m. The meeting is announced in the
Portsmouth Herald, an email
is sent out to all the known families, and the scheduled
date is posted on the website. Everyone is invited to
attend, unless otherwise noted.
Registration Nights
Tuesday,
Feb 16 and
Wednesday, Feb
17
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Rye Jr. High School
Please come prepared with all your information - forms can
be downloaded below. We will have laptops available for
registration on site this year, to save paper and data
entry.
All applications for Major League
Managers must be turned in
by the close of the second registration night. Forms will
be available at registration or download them here
(coming soon).
Registration
Forms
Forms
(in PDF format) are available by clicking on the links
below.
Please note that there is NO online registration.
Registration Form
Registration FAQs
Welcome Letter
Important
Upcoming Dates
Tuesday and Wednesday, February 16 and 17 - Registration
Nights
Wednesday,
February 17 - All applications for Major League Managers
must be turned in by the close of the second registration
night. Forms will be available at registration or download
them here (coming soon).
Saturday, March 13 - $25 late registration fees begin
Friday, March19 - OPTIONAL Warm-up for Majors League
Try-outs (6:30 p.m.) RJH
Sunday, March 21 - National League Evaluations (12:00 p.m.)
RJH
Sunday, March 21 - Major League Try-outs (3:00 p.m.) RJH
Thursday, April 1
- Practices start
Saturday, May 8 - Opening Day (the actual games will begin
earlier)
Saturday, June 19 - Closing Day and Family
Picnic
Volunteers
Needed for the 2010 Season
Please email Dianne Crisp, Rye Little
League's Secretary/Information Officer, if you are
interested in helping with the following:
1.
We
still need one more person involved in the Snack Shack Crew
(see below)
2.
The
Gardening Committee needs to have people to water, weed,
plant, etc.
3.
We
want to have a group of people to plan the food part of the
Closing Day Family Picnic - get fresh ideas or get a
restaurant to donate and/or cater, so we all can enjoy the
day; any ideas, please let Dianne know.
Snack
Shack - We need a
person who will be in Little League for a few years to step
into this role so there is a transition year in 2010. This
is a role that is for an organized, detail-oriented person
who is able to oversee keeping food ready to go /
maintaining the staffing of parents to share the work. This
is a commitment from start to finish – mid-April
preparations and cleaning through July All-Stars and
cleanup.
Kathie Mickel Award
John
Sexton, Chief Umpire for Rye Little League, was presented
with the Kathie Mickel Award during the District II 11- and
12-year-old All Star tournament game between Portsmouth and
Rye at Flash Jenness Field on July 3, 2009. This award was
given to John from the State of New Hampshire and Little
League District II for his tireless efforts volunteering
his time over 30 years to the Rye Little League. During
this time, John has been on the Rye Little League's Board
of Directors, as well as serving as coach, manager, All
Star coach and chief umpire. He also implemented the
process to evaluate players for the major league.
The award was started in 2000 when Mickle, the President of
Portsmouth American League, died of pancreatic cancer after
serving the Portsmouth Little League baseball community
with years of selfless dedication and volunteer work to
keep the league functioning as well as possible. Each year
the award honors an outstanding volunteer in District II
baseball.
Thank you, John, for all your work on behalf of the
children of Rye Little League.
Read the complete story "Rye Umpire's Career Honored" from
the Portsmouth Herald here.
PDF version
Positive
Coaching Alliance
Rye LL Earns Positive Coaching Alliance Seal of
Commitment for 2009
Recognition
for providing youth athletes a positive, character-building
experience
Rye Little League
has earned the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Seal of
Commitment for 2009. PCA bestows this prestigious national
honor only upon youth sports organizations and schools that
officially commit to providing youth athletes a positive,
character-building experience by requiring every coach to
be trained and certified as a Double-Goal Coach.
“A Double-Goal Coach strives not only to win (goal
#1), but also to use sports to teach life lessons,”
said Jim Thompson, PCA’s founder and executive
director. “Likewise, PCA’s Seal of Commitment
helps ensure that Rye Little League provides all of its
youth athletes with a positive, character-building
experience.”
Rye Little League boasts certified Double-Goal Coaches,
serving their youth athletes, said Steve King, Rye Little
League's Director of Coaching. “Earning PCA’s
Seal of Commitment reinforces our commitment to focus on
the best interests of our youth athletes. It takes work to
get coaches certified, but we owe it to the families
participating in our programs to provide the best
experience possible.”
Click here for a PDF Parent Letter about
Positive Coaching Alliance.
About Positive Coaching Alliance
Founded as a non-profit within the Stanford University
Athletic Department in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance
(PCA) has the mission of “transforming youth sports
so sports can transform youth.” To that end,
PCA has conducted roughly 6,000 live group workshops
nationwide for more than 300,000 youth and high school
sports leaders, coaches, parents and athletes.
Workshop attendees have helped create a positive,
character-building youth sports environment for more than 3
million youth athletes. PCA’s partnership network
includes more than 1,100 youth sports organizations, cities
and schools. In 2008, PCA will conduct roughly 1,500 live,
group workshops across the U.S., while assisting thousands
of other individuals via online workshops
at www.PositiveCoach.org.
PCA workshops
train coaches to be Double-Goal Coaches®,
whose first goal is winning and whose second,
more-important goal is teaching life lessons through
sports. PCA sports parent workshops cultivate
“Second-Goal Parents,” who focus on life
lessons through sports. PCA student-athlete workshops
produce “Triple-Impact Competitors,” who work
to improve themselves, their teammates, and their sport as
a whole.
PCA has the support of elite coaches and athletes on our
National Advisory Board (http://www.positivecoach.org/advisoryboard.aspx),
including National Spokesperson, Los Angeles Lakers Coach
Phil Jackson.
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