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.

 2025 PLAYER EVALUATION SIGN UP LINKS:

All players in the U9, U11, U13 & U15 categories must sign up to be evaluated.

Please click the appropriate link below to schedule in your daughter for her evaluation slot. 

Why Evaluations?

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:

Your daughter (or you!) might be feeling disappointed with their team placement...we understand! But let's use this as an opportunity. 

Allow yourself a window of time (typically 24+ hours) for the initial feelings to dissipate.

It is OK to ask for feedback, but keep a couple things in mind:

• 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!

Much of what we do during evaluations is projection - this means that we are trying to view the player's skill set and project how it will fare at a particular division.

Our goal is to have a player at a level where they are challenged, but they will also see success. Some for the observable skills that we can project are: 

• bat speed
• arm strength 
• defensive footwork 
• consistency of mechanics (fielding, hitting, and pitching)

Please let us know if you have any questions. We are looking forward to seeing everyone on the field this spring!

If you have questions about the evaluation process or what the evaluation numbers can reveal to your daughter about the key areas they can improve, please contact Miki Kawahara by email: miki@diamondawgs.com.

Please allow a few days for a reply so we can compile key information.