Local Association Activities

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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Unfortunately, there's no gym or practice time. It's all demonstrations by veteran umpires under the supervision of our state UIC. However, for those who want to call FP, they do allow the option of calling some scrimmage games under the supervision of the trainers. SP umpires do not have this option.

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.

Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Sounds like I need to take a trip to Seattle!

Sure! Come on over!