2024 Florida State-B 12u CHAMPIONS!

2024 Cal Ripken Florida State-B 12u Champions

Congratulations! to our FYB 12u Carolina All-Star Squad for securing FishHawk Youth Baseball's first ever Florida Cal Ripken Florida State-B State Championship title! Your All-Star Wolverines went 5-0 over the tournament held in Newberry, FL June 13-16, 2024, facing opponents from all over the State of Florida. 12u Carolina outscored the opposition 55-12 with one combined no-hitter in Pool Play.

#13 Jonathan Ramos was bestowed Tournament MVP honors by Florida Cal Ripken State and Tournament Officials.

Manager: Jason Haynes

Assistants: Dave McGinnis, Rich Errico, JC Maldonado

Squad: #1 Cody Gebhart, #3 Dom Rulli, #7 Jaydan Coleman, #8 Colin Plummer, #9 Aiden McGinnis, #10 Ayden Moriarity, #11 Clayton Muncy, #13 Jonathan Ramos (Tourney MVP), #18 Taylor Haynes, #29 Zakary Scott, #88 Jasiah Maldonado, #99 Chris Ericco

REC COACHES NEEDED!

It's that time of year again and we NEED Rec coaches!

Whether you played in the MLB or your local youth program, have the desire to teach and mentor, FYB needs you this season!

While you register your player, go ahead and sign yourself up!

Volunteer requirements are waived for the manager, first assistant, second assistant, and scorekeeper (as long as you score 51% of the games).

FALL 2024 REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED

Registrations for our Fall 2024 Rec Baseball and Advanced Baseball (AB) seasons are CLOSED.

A Message from our FYB President

Greetings FYB Community,

With the completion of last week's competitive level games we can now put a bow on the Spring 2024 season... and what a season it was! Great weather, crowded fields, entertaining games, no parking, long lines at concessions--we had it all. Fishhawk Youth Baseball is one of the largest baseball programs in Hillsborough County. We have over 600 kids in our recreational/AB program and over 110 kids in our competitive program.

As you are likely aware we raised our fees this year by $25 for each player. With those fees we purchased new scoreboards for our fields and we are currently in the middle of refurbishing our rookies/minors cages. We anticipate they will be ready by the fall. Next year we will do the same to the majors/juniors cages. I do not anticipate raising fees this upcoming fall season.

Recreational Update

This Spring has been one of the few seasons in the past couple of years where the weather did not severely affect our schedule. Our kids got a lot of baseball in, whether it be practices or games. I saw a lot of great coaching and mentoring going on as well as player development from the beginning of the season to the end.

Congratulations to the following Champions of their respective divisions:

Rookies 7U: Athletics
Rookies 8U: Tigers
Minors: Marlins
Majors: Yankees
Juniors: Twins

Our Seniors team also successfully represented the program this Spring by playing other Seniors teams around the area.

We are now in the middle of our All-Star preparation for District and State tournaments. Good luck to all our teams!

We will be opening registration for our Fall 2024 season in the coming days. Please ensure you sign up early so you are not put on a waitlist! If you would like to manage or coach a team please be sure to apply.

Summer Camp and Clinics registration are open. The FYB summer camps are run by the Newsome High School Baseball coaching staff. **If you are not aware the Newsome High School varsity team is pretty darn good and their coaches are extremely knowledgeable and professional. You can't find this type of instruction at such a great price anywhere else. Go to our website for signup information.

AB Update

AB had another successful season. We had multiple teams compete across all age divisions. Congratulations to our 12U AB squad for taking home the Gold Bracket Championship.

Fall 2024 AB Manager Applications will be opened soon!

Competitive Update

Our competitive teams really shined this Spring season with one team in particular. The Fishhawk Wolverines 8U squad went 37-7 this spring winning 8 total tournaments. That is an awesome achievement. We also had three teams move up from AA to AAA thus enhancing the Wolverines brand. Great job by all!

Our 2024 12U Cooperstown team is gearing up for their trip to New York in July. Make sure you wish them good luck if you see Coach Estep and his squad.

Tryouts for our 2025 Cooperstown team concluded on 20 May. We will be announcing the roster hopefully this Friday.

Fall 2024 Competitive Manager Applications will be opened soon!

Upcoming Fishhawk Youth Baseball Schedule

May 28-31: Summer Camp Week 1
June 3-6: Summer Camp Week 2
9 July: Competitive Tryouts (Ages 8U-10U)
27 July: Competitive Tryouts (Ages 11U-16U)
17 August: Recreational Evaluations and AB Tryouts
19 August: AB Makeup Tryouts
24 August: Fall Season Begins

It is an honor and a pleasure to serve as the President of this great league. Enjoy the summer break and let's run it back this fall!

-Steve Collins

FYB League President

Important FALL 2024 Dates

August 17- Rec and Advanced Baseball Evaluations
August 19- Advanced Baseball (AB) Make-up Evaluation
AUGUST 24- Fall 2024 Season Start

News

Important Fall 2024 Dates

By FishHawk Youth Baseball 06/17/2024, 6:00pm EDT

June 21- Competitve and AB Manger Applications Due
July 9 - 8u-10u Competitve Evaluations
July 27- 11u+ Competitve Evaluations
August 17- Rec and Advanced Baseball Evaluations
August 19- Advanced Baseball (AB) Make-up Evaluation
AUGUST 24- Fall 2024 Season Start

Rec Evaluations

By FishHawk Youth Baseball 06/17/2024, 9:00am EDT

2024 FALL Rec Evaluation Schedule

Rookies 7U - TBD Field 5
Rookies 8U - TBD Field 5
Minors 9U - TBD Field 6
Minors 10U - TBD Field 6
Majors 11U - TBD Field 7
Majors 12U - TBD Field 7
Juniors 13-16 - TBD Field 8

Please arrive 30 minutes prior to start time to check-in and warm up. Evaluations will start promptly.

PLAYUPS - WILL BE BASED ON ROSTER AVAILBILITY AND NOT GUARANTEED!!!

Players looking to play up an age division (must be within 1 year of age group) must attend both divisions evaluations. If a player does not attend both evaluations they will not be allowed to play up and will be placed on age appropriate division. Playing up is not guaranteed as we will not wait list a league age appropriate player for a play up. Many divisions are anticipated to be filled this season.

League age is determined by players age on May 1, 2025.

TBall age groups 4-6 will be placed on teams and are not required to attend the evaluations, with the exceptions of the League age 6 players attempting to play Rookie 7U.

Spring 2024 Advanced Baseball Tryouts

By FYB Board 01/09/2024, 11:00am EST

The 2024 Spring Advanced Baseball tryouts will be held on Saturday January 13 at the following times:

8U - 8:30 am Field 5
9U - 10 am Field 6
10U - 8:30 am Field 6
11U - 8:30 am Field 7
12U - 10 am Field 7
Juniors (13-16) - 10am Field 8

Please arrive 30 min prior to register and warm up.

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Fishhawk Youth Baseball

Fishhawk Youth Baseball was established in 2008 under Cal Ripken/ Babe Ruth organization. Our goal is to produce a safe environment for the communities youth to learn and compete in the game of baseball. We offer a three tier approach to the game:

Recreational Baseball (Rec) - provides a sports outlet for players wishing to learn about the game of baseball, meet new friends and have fun in a less competitive setting

Advanced Baseball (AB) - provides an additional opportunity for those who wish to receive focused instruction, while competing against top level competition within the area’s AB Program.

Competitive Baseball (Travel) - provides a focus on allowing our players an option to play at a higher level but also remain within the FYB baseball community.

The main goal is to keep more of our Fishhawk players in our park so they can continue to grow on and off the field.

Our partnership with Newsome High School is taking shape and has brought even more knowledge of the game to the community.

Contact Us

Fishhawk Youth Baseball

Field Address
16120 Fishhawk Blvd, Lithia FL 33547

Mailing Address
5668 Fishhawk Crossing Blvd, #344, Lithia FL 33547

Fishh awk Field Map

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

FishHawk Youth Baseball is a volunteer based organization with ZERO paid positions.

In order to give your athlete the best experience possible, we require volunteer hours to be provided by the athlete's family that can be filled in a number of ways. These vital services to make this program run!

Each FYB family is required to provide a total of eight (8) hours of volunteer work with six (6) in our Concessions and two (2) through park cleanup. Without this volunteer work, this program won't happen.

Although it is possible to opt-out through a prepaid format, we sincerely hope that you choose to help is keep this program running through physical volunteer hours.

Head over to our DIBS portal to get signed up today!

It takes a village!

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