Evaluations
Southfour's 2025 player evaluations will be conducted once again at the state-of-the-art Diamondawgs indoor baseball/softball facility. We’ve partnered with Diamondawgs as an impartial, skilled third-party evaluator to ensure an unbiased assessment process. With decades of coaching and evaluation experience, the Diamondawgs team brings exceptional expertise, and we’re thrilled to work together to support our players’ development.
Check out the Diamondawgs facility here: https://www.diamondawgs.com/
Why Evaluations?
As our young ball players grow, develop and change from season to season, annual pre-season evaluations ensure a fair and accurate assessment of the player's skills at that given time.
Players of like skill will be placed together on the same team/division in order to enhance player enjoyment and skill development throughout the season.
Evaluation Process
The Southfour/Diamondawgs evaluation process is designed to get a look at all of the key on-field skills. During evaluations, players will rotate through four stations.
It is important to note a few things regarding the evaluation process:
- Involve your daughter in the conversation. Ultimately, it is the player that needs to make the adjustment, so hearing some constructive feedback firsthand can be helpful.
- Don't compare your evaluation or placement to another player in the league. This is a very poor mindset for your daughter to be in as the season approaches.
- Remember that the evaluations were completed by a group of independent evaluators that have no direct connection to the league.
- Remember that the evaluation process is NOT perfect and mistakes will certainly be made. This is the nature of all evaluations, but it is also exacerbated by the fact that we are evaluating an outdoor sport while we are indoors during the winter (the unfortunate part of playing ball in Canada).
- We hope that players view their team placement as a challenge and we hope that players take any feelings of disappointment and funnel them into their development.
- We look forward to players proving us wrong...and we will be cheering them on and supporting them every step of the way!
- bat speed
- arm strength
- defensive footwork
- consistency of mechanics (fielding, hitting, and pitching)
2025 EVALUATION SCHEDULE
Invites to evaluation sessions will be sent to each player via the RAMP app. As we can only evaluate invited players on any given session, please ensure you only attend the sessions for which you have received an invite.
Upcoming Events
Apr. 19, 2025 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Bottle Drive
Nellie Mclung
S4 Bottle Drive - April 19th, 2025
Apr. 25, 2025 4:00 PM to Apr. 27, 2025 7:00 PM
Home Opener Tournament
TBD
Let's PLAY some BALL!
