Provincial 18U Midget Team - 2015 Outlook

The 2015 U-18 Team Coaching Staff would like to provide the following information to players born in 1997 or later that are interested in playing for the Provincial U-18 Team. There is also the opportunity for players born in 1996 to try out and make the team as one of two overage players. Overage players MUST attend a tryout session in order to be considered.

Open Identification Camps will take place May 23 in Grand Falls-Windsor at Centennial Field at 2:00 PM, May 24 in Corner Brook at Jubliee Field at 10:00 AM, and June 7 at St. Pat’s Ballpark in St. John’s at 9:00 AM.

Players will be notified of their status no later than June 12, and confirmation with a $500non-refundable deposit will be required by June 19. The deposit will be credited towards the final cost per player for training and travel for the 18U program.

Upon naming the roster, the team will participate in a three-game exhibition series against the Corner Brook Barons for July 3-5, and are actively investigating other pre-tournament exhibition opportunities. 

The team will then get together in St. John's for team training August 10-11 before departing for Quebec on August 12, and will return home from Quebec on August 18.

More information will be provided as it becomes available. If you are interested in playing for the Provincial 18U Team, you MUST attend one of the three Open Identification Camps. In the event of extenuating circumstances that prevent a player from attending the Identification Camp in their area, a decision will be made by Baseball NL and team coaching staff to determine the players eligibility for the team. Please inform the coaching staff (coachkevin09@yahoo.ca) or Chef de Mission (jsaunder@mun.ca) as soon as possible if you cannot make the Identification Camp in your area. Any players who do not notify the coaching staff will not be considered.

There is a $35 tryout fee that MUST be paid when you arrive at the camp. Any player who does not pay the fee will be considered ineligible for the tryout, and subsequently, the team. Please complete a Provincial Team Tryout Camp Registration form, which can be found HERE.The Corner Brook and Grand Falls-Windsor tryouts will be held in conjunction with the 17U Selects team, so players interested in trying out for both teams MUST fill out two separate registration forms and pay two separate $35 tryout fees.

Players are asked to complete the registration form and email it to jsaunder@mun.ca by Friday, May 15. The registration fee can be brought to the Identification Camp in your area. Players can also register at the tryout, but pre-registration is preferred, as this will give the coaching staff some knowledge of the number of participants in each camp to properly prepare for their evaluation.