Snow and the spring season

[robssecondjob]

So how badly is the snow going to screw your spring season?

Massachusetts youth soccer's season is in the spring. Our season kicks off the last weekend in March. My club is scheduled to line the fields, install new netting on goals, etc. on March 14. Even of the snow melts by then we are going to have a muddy mess of epic proportions.

I can only imagine the rescheduling hell we will be in.

 

[robssecondjob]

Looks like we will have a two week delay in the start of the season. One weekend of games getting moved to the week normal reserved for the play-in games for playoffs. The second week moved to our normal bye-week at one end of school vacation.

The school vacation week move will inevitably cause several forfeits due to short rosters.

 

[Heinie Wagner]

The school where my daughter's soccer team practices and plays games closed the fields they use for the whole spring. Luckily they're letting her team use their turf field for practices, but not games, so it will be all away games.

 

[Heinie Wagner]

email from our little league this morning:
 
 
This weekend we had planned on having a field cleanup day on Saturday with practices starting on Sunday
 
.  Unfortunately our fields are still snow covered so field cleanup will be POSTPONED to a later date and no practices will start this weekend.
 
 
We will keep you updated on the field status as the snow melts.

 

[TimNJsoxfan]

My son's HS JV baseball team started practicing 3 weeks ago.  They have stepped on the actual field three times since then and that was for catching fly balls in the outfield because the infield was too wet/muddy.  4 scrimmages have been canceled and regular games start next Wednesday.  The varsity has had only one scrimmage and that was because it was at an indoor facility.

 

[TheYaz67]

Snow is all long gone here in the DC area, but we had a very wet/snowy & cold February and start to March, so we too have struggled to find infields that can actually be used b/c of the mud.  Some infields are coming around, but you get a small amount of rain and they quickly go back to mud....

 

[robssecondjob]

As of lunchtime today (I am on the Cape), two of the three baseball diamonds for Little League are more than 50% snow covered. Of the four soccer fields I inspected two are snow covered still and the other two are unplayable due to deep mud. Parking is effective unavailable at our main facility due to a combination of snow and mud (dirt parking lot).

We were supposed to line fields last weekend, we postponed to this weekend, but that will be a no go. The town has instructed us we can't even step foot on the fields until we get an all clear from them. With the rain today and more expected through the next 36 hours I am not hopeful.

Son #2 has Majors tryouts (majors teams draft players and then give the players a three practice "spring training" before making final placements/cuts) in the elementary school gym this week. Tough condition for coaches and players.

 

[loshjott]

Snow is all long gone here in the DC area, but we had a very wet/snowy & cold February and start to March, so we too have struggled to find infields that can actually be used b/c of the mud.  Some infields are coming around, but you get a small amount of rain and they quickly go back to mud....

 
I'm in Montgomery County where all fields are closed until April 1 at the earliest. I've been making do with my son's 12U team by having makeshift practices in the outfield, and even that is supposedly not allowed. We haven't touched an infield.  It's been a real challenge, though nothing like what the folks in New England are dealing with.

 

[Winger 03]

I'm in Montgomery County where all fields are closed until April 1 at the earliest. I've been making do with my son's 12U team by having makeshift practices in the outfield, and even that is supposedly not allowed. We haven't touched an infield.  It's been a real challenge, though nothing like what the folks in New England are dealing with.

I am in Frederick County and all fields are off limits as well. They are supposed to do another evaluation again later today but with rain yesterday looks like we will still be off limits.

 

[robssecondjob]

Fields remain off limits to all sports for us until April 13. We have to cancel/reschedule nine games this weekend. What a pain.