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Originally Posted by SRW
We have several arrangements on how we get a gym.
One, we work in the fall with one of the local community colleges and provide them free umpires for their fall invitational scrimmage tournament. We use it for evaluating potential umpires for our college program. Because we don't charge the school for the umps, they in turn donate their gym two nights in the spring for our umpire training program. We then go to several of the JO teams and see if we can "borrow" a pitcher/catcher combo and some jugs machines for our fast-pitch gym night. The girls love being able to show off and work on their skills, and we get our rookies live pitching experience.
Second, we have two umpires who teach at a local high school. They can usually arrange to get their gym or cafeteria for a few nights in the spring. It becomes a little difficult given the winter/early spring sports schedules, but we work around that.
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One of the umpires in our association works at a local HS. He always gets us the use of the athletics department "utility" building. It has a regulation size arena football field in it. They have the layout, mat style bases for baseball softball practice. We set up a diamond and usually have live pitching as well.