Northern Colorado Rookie League (AAA ,D2)
Fort Collins Baseball Club offers the Northern Colorado Rookie League (NCRL), which
is a sanctioned traveling competitive USSSA -AAA League, hosting State and World
Series berths for league teams since 1993. The NCRL hosts single
age leagues for for players nine to fourteen years of age as of
4/30/08. The focus and mission of this league is "Getting
more kids on the field playing competitive baseball. "
- In the 2007 season the NCRL had over 70 teams participating from many Northern Front
Range Communities such as Fort Collins, Longmont, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, Cheyenne,
Berthoud, Johnstown, Niwot, and Brighton.
- Teams whose travel radius exceeds 60 miles from the FCBC Office in
Fort Collins, must contact CLUB PRIOR to completing a Team profile.
This allows for discussion of the flexibility of a team whose travel will exceed
one hour to work with the club on other viable options with the league to play.
- League allows for team TRAVEL to games during the spring school time year
with travel to games TWO times a week and some game times ranging in various cities from 5:30 to
8:00pm start times. Games may include up to THREE games per week during school year
in the event of BAD spring weather.
- The NCRL League runs from early April for NINE weeks of game play
ending season playoff held JUNE 27- 29th,
with an average of 14 -16 league games. League includes a League end of season Tournament covering a three day tournament with game play Friday - Sunday.
- Post-Season
tournament berths are awarded for each age level from league and tournament play.
State Berths are paid to league teams advancing through post-season with berths awarded
to League and Playoff Champions
- All Scheduling and re-scheduling of the league and tournament games
are administrated through FCBC, around each teams tournaments . Most games
may be played Monday through Thursday, although some weekend play may be required.
MAKE UP GAMES based on Cities field availability may limit the flexibility
of rescheduling games that
accommodate everyone.
- Fort Collins Players interested in Trying Out for a Travel Team can contact
the Coach of teams listed at any time to see if they will hold a separate
tryout.
- FCBC will host of OPEN TRAVEL TEAM TRYOUT in
September of each
year for Teams to come to pick up additional players for their travel teams.