Due to the resounding success of the BEST Cricket League last school year, we will be doing the elementary school league again this year from 16 March – 5 June. The format will be the same with two practices per week after school for the first few weeks. There will be no cricket during Spring Break. After Spring Break, we will do 4 first round matches with one match and one practice per week. Next we will have the playoffs with single elimination.
Last year we started with 7 schools in Bowie, and this year we more than double the number by introducing cricket to more schools in Bowie and to schools in the Greenbelt/College Park Area. The schools will be divided into two Conferences.
Bowie Conference: Heather Hills, Whitehall, Rockledge, Yorktown, Grace Christian, St Pius X, Kenilworth, High Bridge, Pointer Ridge, Tulip Grove, and Northview
College Park Conference: Berwyn Heights, Cherokee Lane, Springhill Lake, Paint Branch, Hollywood, University Park, Greenbelt, Adelphi
For the Championship Game, the Bowie Conference Champions will play against the College Park Conference Champions.
We will need about 13 players per team. A school can enter more than one team in the tournament. We already have parent volunteers, retired cricket players, a University of Maryland student, and a few PE teachers to be coaches for most of the schools, but we will still need a few more coaches.
In March, we plan to have a clinic to train volunteers the basics of coaching cricket and umpiring cricket matches. We will also have a clinic on how to keep score in cricket.
The cost will be $25 per player. This will include a cricket T-shirt and a participation medal. Trophies will be awarded to the best players on each team. All players that get to the championship game will get a trophy, and the winning school will get a trophy.
PE Teachers,
It will be great if you can do one or two sessions of cricket with the 4th and 5th graders to get them excited about cricket and encourage them to play for their school. Please let me know if you need my help to do so.
Registration Deadline: Friday 27 February 2015