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Tar Heels Players and Parents:

Welcome to the YEAR North Carolina Tar Heels DIVISION baseball team! I hope you are all excited about a having a fun season, meeting new friends, and playing the best game of all — baseball. This letter will provide information about our first team meeting, practice and game schedules, and other pertinent team matters.

First Team Meeting: Our first team meeting is DATE/TIME/LOCATION. The meeting is open to all Tar Heels families, not just players and parents. The purpose is to have kids meet their teammates and manager, review the DIVISION rules, and discuss plans for making this a fun season for the Tar Heels team.

Practice and Game Schedules: Opening Day is DATE; game schedules have not been released. Until games begin we will have two practices per week: DATES AND TIMES. Practices begin DATE. All practices are on the east field at NAME OF FIELD AND ADDRESS.

Assistant Coaches/Volunteers: Parents, please email me if you are available to coach or help with the team in any way. All parents who would like to help coach are welcome; the more coaches we have the better. We will also need volunteers for team parent and scorekeeper.

Mandatory Volunteer Form: Attached is a volunteer form that must be completed by all coaches, team parents, and anyone who will be involved in any way with the kids on the field or the bench. You must complete a form even if you did so last year. Please complete the form along with a copy of your driver’s license, then give it to me and I will submit it to the league.

Uniforms and Equipment: NNLL provides the following: hat, jersey, belt, socks, batting helmets, bats and catcher’s gear. Each player must have his own glove, cleats and baseball pants. For more information on equipment please, see the attached guide to selecting baseball equipment.

Wait to Purchase Baseball Pants: Please wait before purchasing baseball pants for your child. Our jersey color is unknown at this time. Last season we made a team order at a dicounted price for pants that matched the jersey. Ideally we could do this again. We will discuss this at the team meeting.

Goals and Priorities for the Season: My goals and priorities as manager for the season are for each player to: (1) have fun; (2) improve in each fundamental baseball skill; (3) develop an understanding of baseball rules and strategies; and (4) want to continue playing baseball next season. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MAIN RULES OF YOUR DIVISION

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you may have. My cell phone number is NUMBER, and my email address is EMAIL ADDRESS. I plan to communicate with parents primarily through email. Please let me know if you do not regularly check email and would prefer that I contact you by telephone.

I look forward to seeing all of you on DATE OF MEETING.

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