Paul Corrales
President
2008 - 2009


Alex Baez
Executive Vice
President
2008 - 2009
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

October 2008

 

Welcome to the 2008 winter ball season!  My name is Paul Corrales and I am the new President of Chino Hills Little League.  I am excited with the large turnout of players registering to participate in Little League this winter!  

 I have been involved with youth sports for several years. I have been a member of the Chino Hills Little Board of Directors for the past four years.  I have served as Lower and upper Divisions Vice President.  

My family and I have enjoyed our Little League Baseball experience and, as your new League President, I will strive to make yours an enjoyable one also.

 I am completely aware of challenges I will encounter as your league’s President.  I will do my very best to accept those challenges and overcome common misperception, and clarify miscommunication through our web site and the board of directors. 

 I am fortunate to be working with a full compliment of board directors during this term.   Almost every position on our Board of Directors is currently filled.  It is a clear message that Chino Hills Little League has parents that care and want to volunteer their time to make a difference.  I will work closely with each of the directors to help our league improve and succeed at all levels. 

 The league’s Executive Vice President Alex Baez will assist me with the presidential duties in various areas to ensure we keep up with the administration and oversight of our league in all areas.  Alex also has broad experience with the league, serving as President and Executive Vice President over the past six years.

 The winter ball season presents many challenges for our Board of Directors: projecting the number of players and teams, coordinating interleague play with other leagues, honoring requests, working  logistics, negotiating limited field allocations, preparing schedules for multiple leagues, just to name a few.  The Directors have met these challenges and have completed the tasks in admirable fashion.  It takes countless hours of volunteer time to make this all happen and I applaud them for being up to the task.   Because Little League is a volunteer-based organization I encourage you to always take the time to thank each and every volunteer in this league.  If it weren’t for them our kids would not have a little league baseball program.

 We recently held a managers/coaches baseball clinic.  The clinic was facilitated by Joe Caira and his staff of coaches that included Head Varsity Coaches, current professional players and more.  We also added a manager’s organization portion facilitated by our experienced managers.  The clinic was a huge success and all who attended took away a great chunk of baseball knowledge they will be able to use with their own teams.  Our league has also updated and restructured our Coaches Box link on our web site.  It now offers many new coaching tools to give managers and coaches a resource area to help them organize practices and help to better manage there time.  This all equates to managers having more knowledge to teach our kids to be better baseball players.

 Our league is currently negotiating several clinics to be held prior to the upcoming spring season.  The board of directors is also discussing sending managers with their pitchers and catchers to additional clinics to learn better mechanics as they prepare for the spring season.  Our objective is to provide our managers and coaches all the resources we can to help them instruct our kids about this great game called baseball. 

 Our league will look into requiring managers at certain levels to be certified as managers and coaches by attending the clinics our league will offer to them at no cost.  I am very excited about this process.  I believe our kids will be the winners from this new process.  There will be numerous managers that will improve their ability to teach kids and manage their teams.

 Our board of directors is currently discussing the upcoming spring season fundraiser.  Our fundraiser helps offset the cost  involved in having our kids play at our great facility and all the other cost involved with running a Little League program.    The Board will also be exploring and debating new ideas to help improve the level of competition in each division and also working on ideas to help our all-star program succeed in tournament play this upcoming summer.

 Finally, we are aware that our pledge to honor requests during the winter ball season sometimes results in teams that are less balanced than what we see during the Spring season.   Please remember winter ball is about instructional baseball, where friends and siblings, cousins, and neighbors can play with each other without the competitiveness of keeping score.  The Board of Directors will continue to monitor member feedback and examine our protocols each season in order to implement ideas and rules that will help facilitate an enjoyable baseball experience for everyone.

 In conclusion, I hope each of you enjoy your winter ball experience this season!  Thank you all for your participation and support. Until the next time, don’t forget to always keep your eyes on the ball.

 

GO CHINO HILLS LITTLE LEAGUE!

 

Paul  Corrales

 Alex Baez

 

                                       



 
 



 


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