SOFTBALL LEVELS

High School Varsity: Grades 7-12
J V: Grades 7-10
Freshman (Modified A): Grades 7 - 9
Modified B: Grades 7 - 8

College: Up to four years.

Town Ball: 6 to18 yrs.

Recreation ball/Church ball -- Usually slowpitch, coeducational, everybody hits, everybody plays an equal number of innings.

Town Travel ball - usually takes the best players from teams playing in the town league or makes a team of All-Stars.

Independent Travel Teams

AGES:10 yr old and under,10U
12 yr old and under, 12U
14 yr old and under, 14U
16 yr old and under, 16U
18 yr old and under, 18U
23 yr old and under, 23U

By the rules of most national organizations, (ASA, for example), a player must be 10 years old or younger on January 1 to be eligible to play on a 10 and under team - 10U. If you turn 11 on January 2, you are still eligible to play in a 10U league for that year. The same is true for 12U, 14U and so on.

NOTE: Some local town ball leagues use a different date, Aug. 1, for example.
All national groups (ASA, NSA, WASA, NASF) use the January 1 date. One of the first things we could do locally would be to try to set all local dates to January 1. If a good town team or town travel team goes to a tournament in Buffalo or Syracuse, which all use the national rules, the first thing you notice is that the other players look a lot older than your team. Eight months is a big difference when you are only 12 or 13 years old, especially if you play 12U. Your competition could be all 13 ½, and you are facing them with a team of 11 & 12 year olds.