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YOUTH
FOUNDATION
Arizona Amateur Softball Association Youth
Foundation (the “Foundation”) will carry out its activities through its
officials, directors and volunteers. The initial activities and primary purposes
of this Foundation will be, within the meaning of Section 501 c (3), to support
education for coaches, umpires, and youth players, including providing grants to
establish youth softball programs in municipalities throughout the State of
Arizona and awarding player scholarships for youth softball programs in Arizona.
The Foundation’s goal is to provide funds to communities, leagues and players to
enhance the recreational and competitive opportunities for kids wanting to play
softball. Whether a player views softball as a new sport to learn, as a way to
have fun with friends, or as a path to a scholarship for higher education, the
Foundation wants to instill a love of the game and increase youth participation.
The Foundation’s activities will be conducted by its officers, directors and
volunteers.
You NOW may donate to our “Youth Foundation”, and
let IRS know of your charity. Our Board of Directors will utilize ALL of the
charity to improve our Arizona ASA Youth Program. You may want to assist our
volunteer coaches trained and educated, for some umpires working with our youth
to be trained and educated more, to improve our youth player scholarship
program, for some facilities (state-wide) supporting ASA improved, and for some
ASA youth teams to be assisted in traveling to ASA championship tournaments.
For donating in 2011, please contact our State
Commissioner, Mr. Don Fishel, ASAP.
For 2012, Arizona ASA will be providing
“Applications” for these activities hereby announced.
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Attendees were, Don Fishel, Commissioner, Rick
Hormann, JO Commissioner, Tom Carle, Deputy JO Commissioner, Mike Davidson,
At-Large Player Rep Proxy for Bill Vaughn, Wally Latall, Umpire-in-Chief and
Andy Williams, Deputy Umpire-in-Chief
Arizona ASA can be extremely proud of their efforts
this past year and it showed during the ASA Council Meeting.
Arizona
ASA walked away with five (5) James Farrell Awards of Excellence. The James
Farrell Award of Excellence is named in honor of the late former St. Louis
Commissioner and National Office Staff Member, James Farrell. The James Farrell
Award of Excellence is for the cities that do an outstanding job at hosting ASA
National Championship Tournaments. To receive the award, cities must attain an
overall tournament rating of 95 percent or greater from the ASA Representative,
Umpire-In-Chief and National Office.
One of the highest rated Tournaments was presented
to both Glendale, AZ and Phoenix, AZ. <<<<read
full artilcle
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REGISTERASA.COM BECOMES “LIVE” DECEMBER 1 FOR 2012
The
registerasa.com website
will be returning “LIVE” on Thursday, December 1 for the 2012
Season. You are now able to go in and begin to register
your team/league for the 2012 season. There are many new
updates to this system that I believe you will appreciate when
registering your team for 2012.
The popular “Add
Team to New Season” button is available to have your entire team
information repeated into the 2012 season. To do this,
simply go to your home plate, click on the team you are moving
from 2011 to 2012. Once you get to the team page, click on
the Information button to get to the team information.
Change your age classification and deductible amount if
necessary. Once your team’s information is up to date, click the
“Add Team to New Season” button. From there you can remove
players no longer on your team, add new players that are joining
your team, etc. then submit for a new invoice.
Please also be
aware that if you are the “LEAGUE ADMINISTRATOR” for your
Recreation League, you must have your district J.O. Commissioner
approve you annually to create your league. This helps
protect the past year’s participants from anyone who has left
your organization from going into the system and having access
to your league.
For 2012, the
registration fees have increased due to more parents losing
their primary insurance and the cost of medical services
increasing. The new PLAYER fees will be $35 for the $0
deductible with photo id cards and $25 for the $250 deductible
with photo id cards for traveling teams.
The Non-Player fees will be charged $30 for the $0
deductible with photo id card and $20 for the $250 deductible
with photo id card.
The NON-Players will also be charged $6 for the mandatory
background check that is required for all Non-Players by Arizona
ASA. Recreational
Leagues will be $12 for players or non players with no photo id.
We strongly recommend you select the $0 deductible to give your
players better coverage, but want to give our travel teams the
option to purchase either one. To have a $0 deductible for
13 months of competitive play for $35 is still great costs to
parents who don’t have primary insurance as well as the
possibility of losing their insurance benefits.
As the one who submits
injury claims to Bollinger, I can’t express how appreciative
parents are when they discover they have a $0 deductible policy
and are reimbursed all the out of pocket expenses for physical
therapy, etc. when their daughter becomes injured playing
softball.
Finally, regarding
the insurance for 2012, the 90/10 co pay to the deductible is
still in effect. Attached is a description of what the
90/10 co pay is all about.
If you have any
questions regarding the revised version of registerasa.com or
have any problems/questions with registering your team or
league, please contact your district registrar for assistance.
You can find your district registrar’s contact information by
going to the Contacts
link of this website.
We look forward to
another year of an improved registration system for 2012 and a
successful ASA season.
Rick Hormann
Arizona ASA J.O. State Commissioner
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ARIZONA ASA HAS TEAMED UP WITH TOURNAMENTASA.COM

Arizona ASA has teamed up with Tournamentasa.com
to provide a new tournament registration site for our Arizona ASA State JO
Tournaments. TournamentMVP is designed for Coaches to find and register their
team for ASA tournaments.
Once you become a member with tournamentasa.com
(at no additional cost) you create your team and are ready to enter tournaments
on the Arizona ASA Tournamentasa.com website. This is a tournament registration
site only. You would still register your team on www.registerasa.com for
insurance, player cards and rosters for ASA tournaments.
The website will allow you as a coach to view
whose coming, see pool play and elimination brackets updated as games complete
and view the location of each tournament site with directions and more.
With many of the other ASA State Association’s
partnering with this website, you will be able to have access to our surrounding
state’s tournament pages and see who’s coming to their tournaments as well.
We are excited to partner with this new website
and look forward to providing the best tournament registration site ASA has to
offer to our teams.
For more information about this new tournament
website, please visit:
Rick Hormann
Arizona ASA
State JO Commissioner
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ARIZONA ASA 2012 & 2013 NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIPS
2012
2013
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July 31- Aug. 4 Girl’s 10U Class B Fast-Pitch
Western Nationals - Peoria AZ
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July 31 – Aug. 4 Girls 12U Class B Fast-Pitch
Western Nationals - Peoria AZ
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August 9-11 Women’s “Majors”, Class A & Class
B Fast-Pitch Nationals - Prescott AZ
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