Our annual coaching clinic will be held on Sunday, March 1st from 1 - 5 pm at the Westin near Dulles Airport (Westin is located at 2520 Wasser Terrace Herndon, VA 20171).  Please feel free to invite coaches from your local Little League as all coaches are invited to attend for FREE from all leagues. 

1:00 pm  USA Baseball -  Andrew Bartman

1:20 pm  Coaching the Gen Z Athletes -  Rob Hahne

2:00 pm  Breakout Session 1 (Brownlee / Ferrick / Wrighte)

2:45 pm  Breakout Session 2 (Dowling / Crozier / Bradley)

3:30 pm  Breakout Session 3 (Gallagher / Gjomand / Arguello)

* COACHES DONE at 4:15 pm (may stay for player/parent workshop)

4:15 pm  Parent / Player Workshop -  Rob Hahne

5:15 pm  Adjourn

BREAKOUT TOPICS

• INFIELD PLAY / THROWING PROGRAM-  Ryan Brownlee- Asst. Exec Director-  ABCA
• CATCHING “The Position”-  Jack Ferrick-  Head Coach- Osbourn Park HS / Catchers U
• BASERUNNING-  Mark Wrighte- Head Coach- Freedom SR HS / Rip City
• COMPETITIVE PRACTICES-  John Dowling- Head Coach- McLean HS 
• HITTING MECHANICS-  Eric Crozier- Head Coach- Potomac School / C5T
• WINNING W/ SMALL BALL- Andy Bradley- Bradley Baseball Academy
• HITTING APPROACH-  Mike Gallagher- Robinson HS / Metro Baseball Academy
• COACH TO W.I.N.-  Mark “Pudge” Gjormand- Madison HS / MVP
• PITCHING-  Doug Arguello- Former Pro Pitcher / Rip City / Freedom SR HS
• PARENT / PLAYER WORKSHOP (Mental Game)-  Rob Hahne- Head Coach- Westfield HS

REGISTER HERE 

Starting Fall 2019, all Head and Asst. coaches along with others who come into contact with players must have a background check that was run no earlier than November 15th, 2018.  These has to be done by September 1, 2019.  This has been mandatory for Fairfax County coaches and will now be mandatory for all NVTBL coaches and administrators.  A federal law is in the pipeline and we want to make sure that everyone is compliant.  

NVTBL has secured an arrangement with USA Baseball to provide a low cost option for background checks (only $6).  If you have already done a background check after 11/15/18 and can provide the documentation, that will suffice.  We will be sending out the USA Baseball background check option and also follow-up with additional specifics. NVTBL wants to notify everyone now so that you can start to prepare a plan within your organizations and teams.  

All games are now no new inning 1 hour and 50 minutes.

A reminder that there is never a drop dead time limit for any NVTBL games.

All umpire pricing will stay the same for 2020.  

NVTBL has secured a deal with Wilson to provide NVTBL families and teams large discounts for all Wilson, DeMarini, Louisville, Evoshield, ATEC products through a custom website.  You will find huge discounts anywhere from 20 - 50% off a large variety of items.  

SPECIFICS FROM WILSON-  How to access website and receive discounts:

We have partnered with Wilson Sporting Goods and their brands (Wilson, Demarini, Louisville Slugger, Atec, & Evoshield) to allow our Northern Virginia Travel Baseball League members and partners to purchase decorated apparel and product gear from all of their brands. If you order a stock item (Evoshield apparel, bat, glove, bag, batting gloves, Evoshield protective gear, etc.) that will ship immediately.  It is important to note that you can order any stock gear item at any time throughout the year just by logging into your www.wilsonteamshop.com account.  The Wilson Team Shop (WTS) hard goods store with non-custom products NEVER CLOSES.  The WTS is your 24/7 one-stop shop that allows you to order the top brands at incredible team discount pricing that is special for NVTBL members and partners.  Below are the quick steps to access our WTS:

STEPS:

1. Go to www.wilsonteamshop.com/join
2. Fill out your information and enter access code ­­­___12EFAEE _________
3. Open the email sent by consumerservice-us-en@wilson.com and click on the link 
4. Shop the best brands in baseball using your exclusive NVTBL discount

 Remember to keep your user/password information to log into www.wilsonteamshop account throughout the season to purchase all products.  Orders will deliver directly to your home and orders $50/more will receive free freight.

If you have any questions with registration, please locate the “Contact Us” link at the bottom of the page. The customer service team will be able to assist with any questions. This is our store for the holidays and beyond. Don’t miss your chance on a great opportunity for gifts this holiday season!

Two ways to gear up at DICK’S Sporting Goods this season:

“NVTBL Day at DICK’S” on 3/14

20% off your Entire Purchase at the Fairfax, Dulles Town Center, Bailey’s Crossroads & Gainesville stores on March 14th (click here for 20% off single-day coupon)

OR if you can’t make it on the 14th, use any of these other offers anytime throughout the season (click here for season-long offers) -- Anytime offers cannot be combined with the 20% off entire purchase coupon

Want to become an umpire? Attend ONE classroom session and ONE classroom/on-field combination session to become certified to umpire future NVTBL games. All sessions are FREE to the public. 

Classroom Sessions will be from 7 - 8:30 PM at the NVTBL Office on the following dates:

Wednesday, 2/5 

Thursday, 2/20

Monday, 2/24

Classroom/On-field Sessions will begin at the NVTBL Office and move to Westfield HS. Sessions will run 1:30 PM - 4 PM on the following dates:

Sunday, 3/8--This Session is Full, pick another time

Sunday, 3/15

Sunday, 3/22

NVTBL Office - 14325 Willard Road, Suite 100-B, Chantilly, VA, 20151

Westfield HS - 4700 Stonecroft Blvd, Chantilly, VA 20151

Register for one of each session here - https://fs12.formsite.com/SportsPlus/t3oq4acbux/index.html

Please contact jennia@nvtbl.org with any questions regarding the umpire training sessions.