Volunteers Needed

SVNLL - Coaching Information

County Rainout Line - 206-296-1420

Coaching Applications

Both of these forms are required, along with a copy of your drivers license.
SVNLL Application
Little League Volunteer Application

Umpires

Please review the umpire information.

Tools Needed

Landscaping tools needed. The league needs tools including but not limited to the following:

Shovels - Flat point and round
Rakes - Landscape and garden
Any other lawn/garden tools that would aid us in preparing and maintaining fields
100' Tape measures
Heavy String
Riding Lawn mower

Four Wheeler or Lawn Tractor

A position is available for someone with a four-wheeler or lawn tractor to drag our fields. This would entail occasionally hauling your vehicle to the fields and dragging the infield to smooth and loosen the dirt, and eliminate weeds. This would greatly enhance the playability, look and safety of our fields.

Volunteerism and Commitment

The successful operation of any local Little League Baseball organization is only as successful as the quantity and quality of the volunteer support it receives. The Sno Valley North Little League (SVNLL) is no different. Every activity conducted in the name of SVNLL is entirely voluntary.

Underlying the concept of volunteerism is commitment. When you sign your child up for baseball and softball you are, in essence, personally committing yourself to the success of the Sno Valley North Little League. It has been said many times, in many more eloquent ways, that the behavior you ‘model’ for your children is the behavior they will learn and carry forward into their continuing lives and, for that matter, what they will pass on to their children.

When you register your children to play in the league and make a decision not to volunteer your time and talents, you need to understand that your children will notice what you are modeling for them. These incredibly perceptive and malleable beings will know that, while you think there is some value in your child's participation, the league activities are not worthy of your own active participation. You need to decide if that’s one of the messages you want them to take away from the baseball experience.

Granted, finding time is a difficult thing. We all have our own schedules. Every member of the SVNLL Board of Directors (BOD) has a full time job, a family, and many of the same outside interests and commitments as do you. However, the members of the BOD have chosen to take an active role in the stewardship of the SVNLL and a personal role in assuring that your children are well cared for and that they have an enjoyable experience. However, the BOD cannot be all things to all people and cannot possibly fulfill all the league’s needs for volunteers.

In addition to all of us having our own schedules, we also have our own talents and skills and you need to ask yourself what you can offer to the league. Can you teach? Can you organize? Can you lead a committee? Do you know construction? Can you participate? Can you make a commitment? Not everyone needs or wants to be a leader – but everyone needs to do something. The leadership role may not be something with which you are comfortable. However, there are many other opportunities – both large and small - to help; including: coaching, umpiring, maintaining uniforms and equipment, fields and facilities maintenance, Grand Slam Jam, fund raising, etc.

The purpose of this discussion of volunteerism is not intended to browbeat anyone into doing anything. It is simply a not-so-subtle attempt to raise your awareness of the ever-present need for volunteers (for all sorts of things) and to remind you that your children will only value the baseball experience as much as you demonstrate to them it should be valued. One way for you to indicate that value to your children is to volunteer. Be a role model, there is no one better suited for the job, and show your children that volunteerism and commitment is a part of any activity in which you and they choose to participate.

Please volunteer to help. Your children and the children of your friends and neighbors need you to take an active role.