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Spring Registration FAQs

Please visit our Spring Registration webpage to register.

Q. I don't know what league I belong to?
A. You can search which Little League you should register with by using the Little League League Finder or you can view our boundary map/description.

Q. What division will my child play in?
A. The level of play is determined by your child's Little League age as determined by the Little League Age Chart.  

Q. When does Spring registration open?
A. 2024 spring registration opens Feb 4th and runs until April 4th, though many divisions will start to fill up in March. Once a division is full, a wait list will be available but we cannot guarantee a place for all players on the wait list(s).

Q. What is GOBL?
A. GOBL is the Greater Ottawa area Baseball League. It was formed in 2017 when Little League formally eliminated the Big League age group. Little Leagues in Ottawa wanted to have a place for youth aged 17 to 19 to be able to continue to play baseball with their peers. As a result, GOBL was born. GOBL is a city wide interlock baseball league based on the 2016 Little League Big League Rules (19U/GOBL Interlock Rules). GOBL is a wood bat baseball league for players aged 17, 18 and 19 as of August 31st of the current year. OWLL will field a team if they have enough committed players. If OWLL does not run a team, players are welcome to join other teams as Little League boundaries are not enforced in GOBL.

Q. What is Rowan's Law and why do I have to acknowledge it?
A. Rowan's Law is an Ontario Law that requires all coaches and team trainers to review their sport organization's Concussion COde of Conduct each year before the start of the season. The code sets out expectations and rules of behaviour to minimize concussions while playing sport. The Law requires all sports organizations to ensure that athletes under 26 years of age, parents of athletes under 18, coaches, team trainers and officials confirm every year that they have reviewed Ontario's Concussoin Awareness Resources.For more information, please visit our Safety Information webpage.

Q. When are spring sort-outs?
A. The spring sort-out schedule will be set in late March / early April. Players will be notified and the schedule will be shared on the website.  For more information on the sort-out process, see the Spring Sort-out and Draft Process.

Q. How does the T-shirt sizing work?
A, We ask players to provide their T-Shirt size as part of our online registration for ordering purposes. Spring T-ball and Rookie t-shirts are ordered ahead of the start of the season, so your player may not get the exact size you requested, but we try to match as closely as possible. After Rookie, OWLL provides league owned jerseys to players. Every child should feel good about themselves, so we want to make sure every player has a jersey that fits them comfortably. If your child is smaller or larger than the average, you should reach out to the league well ahead of the start of the season so that we can accommodate any special sizing requests before jersey distribution. We often have additional jerseys or t-shirts but we do not have all sizes in all sets, if we know in advance, we can make sure the jerseys assigned to your players team has a jersey that will fit. 
Here is the general sizing chart for the company we use for our t-shirts and dry-fits: https://media.sanmarcanada.com/pdfs/ATC_ATC1000Y.pdf

Q. What equipment will my child need?
A. Please visit our Uniforms and Equipment webpage for more information.

Q. How can I help?
A. OWLL is always looking for Volunteers! If you are interested in coaching, please sign-up via our Coach Registration webpage or contact Mike McLean (VP of Coach and Player Development). If you want to help out but coaching isn't your thing, please contact our registrar.

Q. What nights will my child play?
A. Nights of play depend on the division your child is participating in as well as field availability and practices scheduled by your coach. Below is a table which outlines the planned game nights for each division, practices are at the discretion of the coach. This information is subject to change. 

 

Division

Game Nights

Possible Locations

Comments

T-Ball Co-Ed

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun

T-Ball players register for a program that is run on a specific night and location, which will rarely change during the season (unless the field is unavailable for some reason beyond the control of OWLL). 

Please see the Spring Registration page for the current year's list of available nights/locations. Please note, some nights/locations fill up very quickly.

T-Ball Girls Sun T-Ball players register for a program that is run on a specific night and location, which will rarely change during the season (unless the field is unavailable for some reason beyond the control of OWLL).  Please see the Spring Registration page for the current year's list of available nights/locations. Please note, some nights/locations fill up very quickly

Pre-Rookie

Mon or Thu

Program designed for 6 year old T-Ball players who are ready for for a little more structure and instruction but aren't quite ready for a pitched ball or for game play. 

Please see the Spring Registration page for the current year's list of available nights/locations. Please note, some nights/locations fill up very quickly.

Rookie

Mon, Wed & sometimes on Sun

OWLL Home fields only

Rookie A: 2 games per week, Mondays and Wednesdays + at least one practice
Rookie B: 2 sessions per week, Mondays and Wednesdays, one game and one practice per week.
Sundays may be used for make-up games due to rainouts.

Rookie Girls

Sun & a practice night Mon-Thu

Home Games: OWLL Home fields
Away Games: Depends on participating leagues

Coaches may run an additional practice during the week.

Minor

Tue, Thur & sometimes on Sun

OWLL Home fields only

2 games per week, Tuesdays and Thursdays + 1 practice per week (depends on the coach)

Minor Girls

Sun & a practice night Mon-Thu

Home Games: OWLL Home fields
Away Games: Depends on participating leagues

Coaches may run an additional practice during the week.

Major

Sun - Thu

OWLL Home fields only

2 games per week + 1 practice per week (depends on the coach)
As Major aged players often ump the Minor levels, we try to schedule Major games on Mon and Wed but they could play any night from Sun to Thu. We try to avoid Fri and Sat but some special programming may run on those nights.

Major Girls

Sun & a practice night Mon-Thu

Home Games: OWLL Home fields
Away Games: Depends on participating leagues

Coaches may run an additional practice during the week.

Junior

Sun - Fri

Home Games: OWLL Home fields
Away Games: Depends on participating leagues

1 home game, 1 away game (depends on host league field availability) and 1 practice per week (depends on the coach)

Junior/Senior Girls Sun & a practice night Mon-Thu Home Games: OWLL Home fields
Away Games: Depends on participating leagues
Coaches may run an additional practice during the week.

Senior

Sun - Fri

Home Games: OWLL Home fields
Away Games: Depends on participating leagues

OWLL has access to 2 game times at Nepean Sportsplex on Monday nights, so home games are generally scheduled there on Mondays, but can be scheduled at Pinecrest Senior on any night of the week. Away games depend on the host league field availability.
Please note we try to avoid Friday night games. 

GOBL

Sun - Fri

Home Games: OWLL Home fields
Away Games: Depends on participating leagues

OWLL has access to 2 game times at Nepean Sportsplex on Monday nights, so home games are generally scheduled there on Mondays, but can be scheduled at Pinecrest Senior on any night of the week. Away games depend on the host league field availability.
Please note we try to avoid Friday night games. 

 

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