Baseball Ontario is hosting their 30th Annual Best Ever Clinic, geared towards minor league baseball coaches and includes coaching clinics with demonstrations and drills along with a trade show with product demonstrations including promotion and show specials. All coaching clinics will allow earning NCCP points for coaching certificates and includes one free coaching clinic when registrering by December 19th (first come, first serve). There is an opportunity to have an association discount once we reach a certain amount of registrants, so if you are interested in registering, please contact . Note there are discounts for early bird registration, the sooner the better for notification to us on attending.

Date: Friday, January 20, 2017 - Sunday, January 22, 2017

Location: Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel & Conference Centre, 801 Dixon Rd., Toronto

For registration and information regarding the event, visit this link here. The brochure for the event is here. For detailed information on what to expect, the coach resource package for the 2016 event can be found here. Once the 2017 coach resource package has been posted, we'll update here.

Now that the WMBA baseball season is coming to a close, we are working diligently to schedule upcoming 2017 rep team tryouts. As most tryouts are still in the planning stages, and will occur at various times in September, please check this space frequently on updated announcements regarding dates and time for the various divisions (recent changes will be bolded)

Currently scheduled:

Minor Rookieball (Born Year 2009)

Date: Tuesday, September 20th  Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Waterdown Memorial Park, Diamond #4

Date: Wednesday, September 21st Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Waterdown Memorial Park, Diamond #4

Date: Friday, September 23rd  Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Waterdown Memorial Park, Diamond #4

Major Rookieball (Born Year 2008)

Date: Wednesday, September 21st Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm Location: Gatesbury Park

Date: Friday, September 23rd  Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm Location: Gatesbury Park

Date: Monday, September 26th  Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm Location: Waterdown Memorial Park, Diamond #2

Minor Mosquito (Born Year 2007)

Date: Tuesday, September 20th  Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Waterdown Memorial Park, Diamond #2

Date: Wednesday, September 21st Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Waterdown Memorial Park, Diamond #2

Date: Friday, September 23rd  Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Waterdown Memorial Park, Diamond #2

Major Mosquito (Born Year 2006)

Date: Tuesday, September 20th  Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #2

Date: Wednesday, September 21st Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #2

Minor PeeWee (Born Years 2005)

Date: Tuesday, September 13th  Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #2

Date: Thursday, September 15th  Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #2

Major PeeWee (Born Years 2004)

Date: Sunday, September 11th  Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #2

Date: Monday, September 12th  Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #2

Date: Sunday, September 18th  Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #2

Major Bantam (Born Years 2002 & 2003)

Cancelled Date: Monday, September 26th       Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #1

Minor Midget (Born Years 2001)

Date: Monday, September 12th  Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #1

Date: Tuesday, September 13th       Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #1

Date: Wednesday, September 14th  Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #1

Major Midget (Born Years 2000, 1999,1998)

Date: Sunday, September 11th  Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm Location: Joe Sam's Leisure Park, Diamond #1

Date: Tuesday, September 13th  Time: 6:15pm - 8:15pm Location: Belmont Park

Online application forms are available in our Forms section. Please fill out the respective online application form before the first tryout session. Forms will be available at the tryouts for divisions where the online application form is not available or for walkups.

If you are interested in becoming a coach for the 2017 season, the coaching application form is now available online in our Coaches/Umpires/Volunteers section. Please fill out the required information, and feel free to contact us with any questions you have. All applications will be reviewed and you will be contacted regardless of whether a coaching position can/will be made available or not. Submissions for Rep and Select are due by August 27th, 2016 at 11:59pm. Rep and Select coaching positions will be awarded by mid-September 2016.  Houseleague coaching applications will be available until the start of the upcoming houseleague season (dates pending).

And another houseleague year is in the books! We had great weather conditions for our year end finale, and it was a fabulous ending to another successful year for the WMBA. Championships were held at various times during this weekend and the trophies have all been handed out! The results for each division were as follows:

Sr. T-Ball: An extra innings nailbiter between the Lawlor Safety Athletics and the Carmeuse Blue Jays, with the Jays holding out for the championship trophy

Rookieball: Another game down to the wire, the Walmart Blue Jays held off the Ontario Stone Supply Giants in a game that went down to the final out.

Mosquito: An overwhelming win for the Sun-Canadian Pipeline Athletics over the Babony Post and Hole Giants

PeeWee: Repeating their success from the mid-year tournament, the Giants held off the persistent Blue Jays for their second championship of the year

Congratulations to all participants, and thank you for all the parents/guardians for making this our best overall season to date. An extra special shout out to all the volunteer coaches, assistants and all those that made things happen smother than we ever could have expected. Let's hope that next year is just as special!

P.S. Don't forget to look out for our ongoing rep team games, and wish those teams success in the upcoming OBA playoffs on Labour Day weekend (which the Minor Bantam B tournament will be hosted by none other than yours truly). We will make announcements sometime in the near future for tryout time slots for 2017 rep teams to be held sometime in September.

Joe Sams Park New Diamonds Plan

This September, construction will begin on a long awaited project for two new diamonds along with 3 new batting cages that will be placed at Joe Sams Leisure Park. A shout out goes to our very own Equipment Manager (and vitual Waterdown baseball expert) Gary Zagar on keeping the project going in the right direction. The new development is featured in an article this week by one of our longtime sponsors, The Flamborough Review. More details on what to expect can be found in the article here.

The start of the season is approaching. Do you need a way to keep track of your little (or big) slugger's schedule? Want to keep up to date on happenings in the league? Need a quick way to email your coach? Need directions to a diamond? All this and much more is available in the mobile app for our league. You can get the LeagueAthletics Mobile app at the Google Play store for Android and at the iTunes store for Apple. All you need to connect is your WMBA login and password. Download now for free!