2016 IBL Focus Areas
INTERIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE Welcome to the IBL Newsletter!
NEWSLETTER
FEBRUARY 2016
We hope you find the information useful. Keep up with the IBL on Facebook and on the website. Write us a note, give us a call, or better yet – come join us at our monthly Board Meetings, they are open to everyone.
2016 Summer Registration Now Open Please visit www.leaguelineup.com/fnsbibl for additional information and to register for the 2016 summer season. See you on the fields!
Important Dates / Upcoming Events
Feb 27th
EAFB Winter Ball
Feb 28th
CCE Classes
Mar 13th
IBL Board Meeting
Mar 19th
EAFB Winter Ball
Mar 19th Lions Clinic
There’s a new and easy way to support IBL. It’s called Amazon smile. It’s quick and simple, and once you set it up you don’t even have to think about it. You go to smile.amazon.com and look for Pick Your Own Charitable Organization. Type in Interior Baseball League Inc and select us! From now on, when you shop at Amazon, go to the smile.amazon.com website instead of just amazon.com, and IBL will receive 0.5% of all your qualifying purchases. You pay the same prices as “regular” Amazon, they just share a little bit with us. Thank you for supporting baseball in the Fairbanks North Star Borough!
2016 IBL Focus Areas: Our three main focus areas for 2016 are Fields, Fundraising, and Communications. You’ll be hearing about the Fields and the Fundraising efforts almost constantly in these Newsletters as we make every effort to improve our communications and awareness of these critical issues.
Mar 20th
CCE Classes
Apr 3rd
Skill Assessments
Apr 10th
Skill Assessments
Apr 10th
IBL Board Meeting
Apr 17th
Skill Assessments
COACHES CONTINUING EDUCATION CLASSES Please go the IBL website and sign up for your CCE classes online! All coaches and assistant coaches are required to attend one two hour CCE, brand new coaches to IBL must also attend a one hour new coaches orientation class.
Executive Meetings: IBL Board meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month beginning at 3:00pm at the Badger Hall building at the Tanana Fairgrounds. All are welcome.
Administration Skills Assessments: Skills assessments are scheduled for Sundays, April 3, April 10, April 17 at Randy Smith Middle School; 10:00am to 3:30pm. Skills assessments are for ages 7 through 14, but are not required for players in the Shetland Division ages 4-6. IBL Schedule: The complete schedule for IBL is available on line, and includes meetings, tournaments, special events, skills assessments dates and other deadlines. Be sure to keep up by checking out the calendar now and then.
Fields Annual Restorations This year’s annual field restoration efforts will focus on the 15 most used baseball fields we have. These efforts will include edging the base paths by cutting the grass/sod, pulling all the weeds in the dirt infields, repairing the homeplate area and batters boxes, fixing the pitchers mounds, and in general – making the fields easier to maintain for the season and safe and fun to play on. The IBL fields committee will be scheduling work days in the spring for these Annual Restorations and soliciting help from Parents, Coaches, Players. Thanks in advance for recognizing that a small amount of volunteering will go a long way for a lot of kids. This is simply how it gets done. Game Preparation Tasks It’s all about RAKE, WATER, and CHALK! For the 2016 Baseball season, Pre and Post game field work will be assigned to each team in a typical Home or Visitor format, and will be noted on the schedules. The pregame to-do list is Rake, Water, and Chalk and the post game to-do list is Rake, and water if needed. The concept is super simple and the work is easy too. IBL will be furnishing all the tools and training. Each team’s coach or team parent will coordinate these efforts. Small Improvement Projects The process of identifying and prioritizing small improvement projects that benefit each Division continues. Our goal for 2016 is to accomplish a solid handful of these projects, and build on the momentum each year. You’ll be hearing more about these as the season approaches. For example – the Carpenters Apprenticeship Program has volunteered to build pitchers mounds for the some of the bullpens!
Fundraising To continue keeping the youth baseball program affordable for as many families as possible, the IBL has made the goal of having all teams in all divisions sponsored by local businesses and/or individuals. Our new Sponsorship Coordinator Gina Sliger is now hard at work making that happen. If you know of a likely business or individual that may consider sponsoring a team, please do communicate with either Colleen Angaiak or Gina Sliger.
Resources Coaches, Coaches, Coaches!! If you know you are planning on coaching this year, please sign up early as possible so we know to have save a team for you- in your division. Thanks! Three strikes and you’re in! The A, B, C’s of coaching an IBL team are: 1. Application: The IBL website is up and running and ready for coaches to apply. 2. Background Check: Once you’re on the website application, follow instructions to provide permission for the background check. 3. Continuing Education: CCE classes begin January 31st this year!! Take a look on line and sign up for your class now. ALL coaches must attend a CCE baseball skills class, and NEW coaches to IBL must attend an IBL orientation class. The annual orders of uniforms and equipment have been made! We are on schedule for another great year of youth baseball!
Looking Ahead Our next IBL meeting is March 13, 3:00pm at Badger Hall; Tanana Fairgrounds. Our next newsletter publication is scheduled for March 20. Skills Assessments are April 3, 10, 17 at Randy Smith Middle School. Contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions/comments/concerns.
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
INTERIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE PO Box 74805 Fairbanks, AK 99707 Phone: 907-347-0877 [email protected] www.leaguelineup.com/fnsbibl
NEWSLETTER
FEBRUARY 2016
We hope you find the information useful. Keep up with the IBL on Facebook and on the website. Write us a note, give us a call, or better yet – come join us at our monthly Board Meetings, they are open to everyone.
2016 Summer Registration Now Open Please visit www.leaguelineup.com/fnsbibl for additional information and to register for the 2016 summer season. See you on the fields!
Important Dates / Upcoming Events
Feb 27th
EAFB Winter Ball
Feb 28th
CCE Classes
Mar 13th
IBL Board Meeting
Mar 19th
EAFB Winter Ball
Mar 19th Lions Clinic
There’s a new and easy way to support IBL. It’s called Amazon smile. It’s quick and simple, and once you set it up you don’t even have to think about it. You go to smile.amazon.com and look for Pick Your Own Charitable Organization. Type in Interior Baseball League Inc and select us! From now on, when you shop at Amazon, go to the smile.amazon.com website instead of just amazon.com, and IBL will receive 0.5% of all your qualifying purchases. You pay the same prices as “regular” Amazon, they just share a little bit with us. Thank you for supporting baseball in the Fairbanks North Star Borough!
2016 IBL Focus Areas: Our three main focus areas for 2016 are Fields, Fundraising, and Communications. You’ll be hearing about the Fields and the Fundraising efforts almost constantly in these Newsletters as we make every effort to improve our communications and awareness of these critical issues.
Mar 20th
CCE Classes
Apr 3rd
Skill Assessments
Apr 10th
Skill Assessments
Apr 10th
IBL Board Meeting
Apr 17th
Skill Assessments
COACHES CONTINUING EDUCATION CLASSES Please go the IBL website and sign up for your CCE classes online! All coaches and assistant coaches are required to attend one two hour CCE, brand new coaches to IBL must also attend a one hour new coaches orientation class.
Executive Meetings: IBL Board meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month beginning at 3:00pm at the Badger Hall building at the Tanana Fairgrounds. All are welcome.
Administration Skills Assessments: Skills assessments are scheduled for Sundays, April 3, April 10, April 17 at Randy Smith Middle School; 10:00am to 3:30pm. Skills assessments are for ages 7 through 14, but are not required for players in the Shetland Division ages 4-6. IBL Schedule: The complete schedule for IBL is available on line, and includes meetings, tournaments, special events, skills assessments dates and other deadlines. Be sure to keep up by checking out the calendar now and then.
Fields Annual Restorations This year’s annual field restoration efforts will focus on the 15 most used baseball fields we have. These efforts will include edging the base paths by cutting the grass/sod, pulling all the weeds in the dirt infields, repairing the homeplate area and batters boxes, fixing the pitchers mounds, and in general – making the fields easier to maintain for the season and safe and fun to play on. The IBL fields committee will be scheduling work days in the spring for these Annual Restorations and soliciting help from Parents, Coaches, Players. Thanks in advance for recognizing that a small amount of volunteering will go a long way for a lot of kids. This is simply how it gets done. Game Preparation Tasks It’s all about RAKE, WATER, and CHALK! For the 2016 Baseball season, Pre and Post game field work will be assigned to each team in a typical Home or Visitor format, and will be noted on the schedules. The pregame to-do list is Rake, Water, and Chalk and the post game to-do list is Rake, and water if needed. The concept is super simple and the work is easy too. IBL will be furnishing all the tools and training. Each team’s coach or team parent will coordinate these efforts. Small Improvement Projects The process of identifying and prioritizing small improvement projects that benefit each Division continues. Our goal for 2016 is to accomplish a solid handful of these projects, and build on the momentum each year. You’ll be hearing more about these as the season approaches. For example – the Carpenters Apprenticeship Program has volunteered to build pitchers mounds for the some of the bullpens!
Fundraising To continue keeping the youth baseball program affordable for as many families as possible, the IBL has made the goal of having all teams in all divisions sponsored by local businesses and/or individuals. Our new Sponsorship Coordinator Gina Sliger is now hard at work making that happen. If you know of a likely business or individual that may consider sponsoring a team, please do communicate with either Colleen Angaiak or Gina Sliger.
Resources Coaches, Coaches, Coaches!! If you know you are planning on coaching this year, please sign up early as possible so we know to have save a team for you- in your division. Thanks! Three strikes and you’re in! The A, B, C’s of coaching an IBL team are: 1. Application: The IBL website is up and running and ready for coaches to apply. 2. Background Check: Once you’re on the website application, follow instructions to provide permission for the background check. 3. Continuing Education: CCE classes begin January 31st this year!! Take a look on line and sign up for your class now. ALL coaches must attend a CCE baseball skills class, and NEW coaches to IBL must attend an IBL orientation class. The annual orders of uniforms and equipment have been made! We are on schedule for another great year of youth baseball!
Looking Ahead Our next IBL meeting is March 13, 3:00pm at Badger Hall; Tanana Fairgrounds. Our next newsletter publication is scheduled for March 20. Skills Assessments are April 3, 10, 17 at Randy Smith Middle School. Contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions/comments/concerns.
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
INTERIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE PO Box 74805 Fairbanks, AK 99707 Phone: 907-347-0877 [email protected] www.leaguelineup.com/fnsbibl
