12.13.2021
Welcome and Introduction
Congratulations to players who have committed to college programs
o TJ Newman – Garden City CC
o Caleb Cancino – Mesa CC
o Adrian Janke – College of Marin
o Carter Swan – Mesa CC
Schedules
o Varsity complete – (Tucson 5 games for Spring Break)
What are the dates? (Still TBD) – Whole week of 3/14/2022 – 3/18/2022
Season starts 5th of March w / Round Robin
o JV – Schedule complete (10 league, 9 non-league – starts same as Varsity, March 5th w/
Round Robin)
o 10 and 9th grade will be posted ASAP – still being worked on
New board
Rob Harris – President
Nick Rego – VP
Mindy Scott – At Large Member
Joe Hogan – Treasurer
Matt Randgaard – Secretary
o Here to support anything Keith gives us
Fundraising
Group travel (airline discounts)
Completed Projects
Field Aerated
Tilled the entire track – ready for next Spring
Mound purchased
Upcoming
Batters Eye and other things to be purchased
New hats and Jerseys
o Derek is the rep – giving him a go: kids are sick so he didn’t want to come
o Hat designed is finalized (passed around – CV font is wrong on Red hat)
o Jerseys will be finalized soon
o Mock ups are in revisions
o NO YELLOW
Apparel is available for ordering on the website (castleviewbaseball.com/shop)
o 15% of everything purchased goes back to program
o 6-8 weeks for delivery – order now for Spring
Fundraising
o Lifeline to self-funded program
o School is not involved – falls on us to do everything and it’s what enables us to grow
o Have and will provide hats / shirts
o If you host tournaments you don’t have to pay as much – we want to host more
o Have raised money for
Fertilizer
Batting cages
Nets
o Kept margins low due to fundraising – keeps it affordable all year round
o Super Bowl squares coming up
o Switching up from SnapRaise since they are a higher fee
May try FlipGive – nobody has to pay, capitolize on what people already spend
o Need higher participation rate
o Power Hour – helps keep down some costs (focused hour)
o King Soopers is set up if someone wants to step up
Team bonding
o First event on Tuesday 12/21 at Top Golf
o Please sign up and Venmo $5 to Jen Cancino (@Jennifer-Cancino-1)
Sign up ASAP so we know how many will be in attendance
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o Top Golf Membership card is $5 and is required for play
o MLK Day will be team bonding working at Health and Hope center in CR
Counts for community service hours (may work for NHS)
o February and March are TBD base on what Keith and Jen can work out
Payments should be low to be help keep economical for all levels of
participation
San Francisco Giants Kai Correa – trying to get him scheduled to come meet with
the players
Coach Larry celebrating 52nd wedding anniversary – needs to leave for reservations
Mental Game of Baseball
o have full PDF of all notes from last year
Can download it and go through it before Winter training
Talks about a lot of mental things to go through to help players out
Winter Training
o Starts January 3rd (3:30 – 5:30 M,W,F) at Sandlot
Fundraising – Sandlot memberships throughout the year – 20% goes back to the
program
During training season – kids can come in and work out in dedicated times
(breaks)
Sundays and Saturdays will have dedicated blocks of time
Digital pitching and baseball machine will be available – data lets coaches make
the decisions throughout the decision
o Other off season opportunities
Winreality still available to check out
Diamond Kinetics still going on
o NCSA – want to see higher participation (75%-80% team edition purchased)
Set up profile and have access to everything
Cuts
o Reminder that there will be cuts this Spring – work hard in the classroom
Be accountable and be on time
Control what you can control
Winter Registration
o Link was broken but has been fixed – should be available now
o https://castleviewbaseball.com/january-february/
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Open Questions
o What email list are we using?
On the website there is an Incoming Registration form – emails from that list is
what is used (Incoming registration)
https://castleviewbaseball.com/register/
o Everyone should register each year – this is the list that is used
o Minutes are available on the bottom of the website (CastleViewBaseball.com)
o Can we wear metal cleats?
Metal cleats – Yes
If pitching on artificial mound – No
o Would it be the parents responsibility to do the hotel for the Spring Break Trip? – Still
working out logistics of flights, etc but players will all have the same hotel (Team trip).
Parents and families will need to make their own accommodations
o Will it be similar to previous years with Varsity fees higher for the season to help with
costs? – Yes
o Incoming Freshman with no knowledge of tryouts, etc, anything
Everything should be sent out via the email list from the “Incoming Registration
Link” on the website
https://castleviewbaseball.com/register/
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