Greetings All

I am trusting you all have had a good Holiday season and are ready to jump into registrations. Many leagues have already started their registrations and are preparing for the 2023 season…. In looking at the Data Center, I am seeing a few things that need to be done:

Get your charters submitted as soon as you can.
Make sure you have your ASAP safety plans filed BEFORE MARCH 15 – Why is this important? 1) It gets your league compliant with the Charter, and 2) If we get 100% of the ASAP plans filed by MAR 15, we get a $600 rebate credit from Little League (we can use it to by banners, trophies, LL awards, add it to the District treasury for scholarships, and more.)
Go in to the Data Center and CONFIRM all of your officers. Some of you have duplicates that the Data Center is noting and some have not confirmed your officers of the league (you’ll see the notice when you log in as president or officer of the league.
We have a new league in our District, Sprague Little League! They will need games this year… so please stay in contact with them as they get themselves re-aligned in District 13.
Make sure you are aware of the new rules Little League has enacted this year. We went over most of those in the Winter Meeting.
I will be setting up a Zoom meeting in Feb that ALL Presidents should attend and as many board members as possible. Expect it around the 15-20^th – I’ll send out more notices as the time gets closer.

One issue we have is we don’t have a confirmed location for District tournament this year. Is Tri-County-Deer Park interested in hosting the District tournament in late June?

West Plains will be hosting the State Juniors Tournament this year in mid-July… we are excited about that. They have great fields there and a good team of people to put it on.

Also note, this year IT IS A REQUIREMENT of Little League International that ALL All-Star Managers and Coaches attend the ON-LINE Diamond Leader course. You can find out more about that at the Little League website.

If you need anything the DA’s phone number is 509-288-0141 – jarel@jpiworldwide.com – let me know if you have questions.

The ADA is Stacy Ashcroft in Cheney and can be reached at 509-294-5341 - stacyashcroft09@gmail.com

Our District Umpire in Chief/ADA is Mark Dixon – he can be reached at 509-475-3919 - Markd@secosupply.com

Mark has some Umpire Clinics lined up for this spring, and we have some workshops for Score Keeping, Coaching and other stuff on the schedule. We will keep you posted as to dates in the next few days.

Please let me know if you have questions!

Regards

DA WA 5/13