2024 Player Evaluations: Saskatoon Minor Softball League powered by GOALLINE.ca

U19 Girls Tryout dates:
December 28th 7:30-10:30pm
December 29th 7:00- 10:00pm

All Boys Tryout dates:
March 9th @ Gordie Howe training center
Please be ready to go for start time * shoes on etc

Player Requirements:

Participants are required to bring their own glove, helmet, bat and running shoes or turf shoes & water bottle. (NO CLEATS will be allowed on the turf). 

Evaluations

Our goal as an organization is to hold unbiased tryouts and give every player an equal chance of making the team. The Zone has developed a tryout process that intends to place players on teams matching their individual skills and competitive level. We recognize that players develop at different times and intervals.  The goal is to build teams that consist of players with similar abilities and drive, in a competitive atmosphere, while fostering skills development.

For those players that have chosen NOT be considered for an A team are still encouraged to attend evaluations/tryouts so they can be properly evaluated based on their skill level which helps making teams at the B level. 

Evaluation Policy
If a player is not chosen in an offered A program and attends tryouts and is not selected to participate in the offered A program there will be $125 fee retained for costs of facility rental and evaluators. In the event a player is chosen to participate in a Selects A program and choses not to play, the full registration fee will be withheld. If the player is not chosen and choses to return to the Selects B program the B registration fee and tryout fee will be withheld and balance returned to the player. If the player is not chosen in the A program and returns to their local association the tryout fee will of $125  will be withheld and balance returned.

Your Evaluators: We have the 222's, Keith, Dean, and their team of athletes for the 2024 Selects Evaluations.

Keith Mackintosh - Keith played at the top level of the men’s game for 19yrs, starting his Sr A career in 1990 with the Camrose Merchants.  During his career he won 5 Sr A Canadian National Championships. Keith was a member of the Men’s National Team program for 13 years that included playing in two ISF World Championships; 2000 (South Africa) and 2009 (Saskatoon) and winning a Gold Medal with Team Canada at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  Keith was inducted into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame in 2017. Keith is a certified Level 3 Coach and was the Head Coach of Team Saskatchewan at the 2013 Canada Games. In 2013 Keith was named to the Junior Women’s National Team coaching staff and served as the hitting and infield coach until 2017 when he was named Head Coach.

Elite Coaching Experience and Honors

• International Softball Congress Hall of Fame Member 2017
• Level 3 Coaching Certificate
• High Performance Provincial Coach Softball Saskatchewan
• Head Coach Team Saskatchewan Canada Games
• Hitting Coach Team Canada Junior Women’s Team
• Head Coach of Team Canada – Jr Ladies Team

Dean Holoien - Dean has played Fastpitch Softball for almost 40 years. Since 1992 Dean has played the game at an Elite level, playing with and against some of the best fastpitch softball players in the World. Over the years, Dean has played with Club teams from all over North America, competing at the game’s highest level. As a Pitcher and Designated Hitter, Dean became a member of Team Canada in 1998 and played on ISF World Championship Teams in 2004 (New Zealand) and 2009 (Saskatoon, SK.).

• 2012: Inducted into Alberta Softball Hall of Fame as a member of the 1999 Edmonton Express
• 2013: Coach with Team Sask U21 – Canada Summer Games
• 2015: International Softball Congress Hall of Fame Member
• 2017: Pitching Coach – Men’s Sr. National Team