Spring Reign

Please note that we have made some changes to our guidelines and procedures for 2012.  These are explained throughout the Spring Reign website, but they are also summarized here for your convenience:

  1.  The registration deadline and other important dates are approximately 3 weeks earlier. This will give traveling teams more time to plan for the tournament.

  2. As usual, each team must be accompanied at all times by at least one adult chaperone. New in 2012, that chaperone must be at least 21 years of age.

  3. As usual, all players on a team must attend the same school. Teams should be prepared to fill a roster with enough boys and girls that attend the same school before accepting a bid. Rare exceptions are made, but they require an official application that must be approved in advance by the Eligibility Committee. Exceptions that are granted are valid for only one year. Decisions made in previous years do not serve as a precedent; teams should not assume that a similar exception will be granted a second time.  New this year, Applications for Eligibility Review are due by April 15.

  4. Division grade limits have been altered slightly. High school is grades 9-12, middle school is grades 6-8, and elementary school is grades 3-5.

  5. Per feedback from several coaches, the gender ratio has been altered slightly. Spring Reign is still a 4:3 (boys:girls) coed tournament, but teams with many girls may have an opportunity to play occasionally with a 3:4 ratio.

  6. For more efficient paperwork processing, we are asking coaches to alphabetize their waivers and rosters by last name.

  7. The coaches' meeting was moved up to 9:00, per feedback from several coaches that they wanted to be at their game field in time to warm up their teams (and, in some cases, to catch the beginning of their first game).

  8. This has always been an assumed rule, but we realized recently that it was not written anywhere.  A player may play on only one team in the tournament.  Players may not be shared between rosters.