February 7, 2018
Important Softball Information!
Please excuse the second send of this email.
The previous subject line was incorrect and did not reflect the important information in this letter.

Dear Softball Players-

Thank you all for your participation and support over the years. We are especially grateful for captains and the investment of work and time in managing your teams.

As many of you know, our softball participation has steadily decreased over the years. Many of you have been kind to help us brainstorm various ideas as well as raise our awareness about reasons for the decrease. We realize that among other items, many teams prefer travel tournaments. Many other factors are in place as well. 

The reality is that our participation has decreased 50% from 2012 to 2016, making play within age groups not very competitive. The National Senior Games last summer hosted only 25 men’s teams in all the nation. The women fared better with 68 teams, but again this was out of the whole nation.

After analyzing the complete situation, our board of directors has made the difficult decision to discontinue offering softball as a sport. If interest ignites back in the future, we will certainly consider offering it again.

However, if your team desires to attend Nationals next June in Albuquerque, we will work with you. Steps to take:

1)      Please have a captain or manager write me at christine@tnseniorolympics.com so that your team is placed on a list.                                                                                                                                                                                     
2)      We will accept play in another tournament or league as a qualifying measure. Details about how to report this will be forthcoming.     
                                                                                                                          
3)      It will be necessary for our staff to get your roster and teammates registered and to prepare a spreadsheet for Nationals. 
a.       An administrative fee of $100/team will be collected to manage these details.   
b.       Additional details about registration will be e-mailed later to those interested.           
c.       Mailed registrations will be accepted and we are trying to work out an online option.
d.       The online option may not open until May to keep matters separate from other state finals registration.  Please stay tuned on this.      
                                                                                                                             
4)      You may place your out-of-state players on this roster and they will be turned in.    

                                                
Again, thank you for your support. We are proud of our teams. Remember that we have 19 other sports- we would love to see you in June participating in one of the others.

Sincerely,
Christine Dewbre
Executive Director
christine@tnseniorolympics.com
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