Hello CYB Families,

We continue to monitor youth sports guidance closely and are in regular contact with the City of Carlsbad, among others, as we enter our Spring Baseball season. As we communicated before the holidays, the Board decided to pause our team formation activities for the month of January in hopes we would find us closer to being able to return to sports (and games) sometime this Spring. 

Registration remains open and our plan is to keep everything in motion for Spring at this time, although slightly delayed from our ‘normal’ timeline. 

The Board met this past week and decided not to finalize a plan for this season yet in order to give us the best possible chance to play as regular of a season as possible. We can, however, confirm that there will be a 2021 CYB season and that we will include games in that season if it is possible to do so in a safe way and in accordance with governmental guidelines. In the event that we are unable to play games, we will do as we did in the Fall, with practices only and no mixing of teams. We have heard from many of you that the preference would be to wait to see if things can open up more, rather than commit to a practice-only season.

Based on the recent guidance from the California Department of Public Health, Baseball is listed as an outdoor moderate-contact sport. Therefore, we would need to move only one Tier (from the current Purple to Red) in order to return to regular baseball. While the numbers in the County are not close to getting us to the Red tier soon, we are hoping we will start to see some light at the end of the tunnel as we get into February. In the next couple weeks, we will also see what CIF and Schools decide to do, which could impact CYB too.

For now, we sincerely appreciate your patience as we work through this together. Of course, we would love nothing more than to see our kids back on the fields, having fun and playing games. But we need to do our part to keep everyone healthy and safe, while abiding by City, County and State health guidelines.

We will provide more updates as soon as they are available. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact anyone on the CYB Board at any time. Whether you have already registered for Spring or not, we want to keep all lines of communication open and be as transparent as possible. 

Sincerely,

Carlsbad Youth Baseball

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For additional reference:

California Department of Public Health:

Outdoor and Indoor Youth and Recreational Adult Sports

American Academy of Pediatrics:

COVID-19 Interim Guidance: Return to Sports