North Langley Diamond Sports Information

We offered across the board refunds for our recreational program, and then set up a flat $50 fee for the hope that we would have summer softball, if it would come back. While our original recreational numbers were tracking towards 150+, we ended up having 51 registered! This was great news.... considering.......that we still could provide a season, with eventual games for the age groups, U6-U19 for all classes(A, B and C). In the Fusion and Xtreme programs, we had next to no families leave or ask for a refund due to COVID, which showed how stable and committed these members are, registration stayed at the consistent 100+, mirroring the past few years. We started to move towards re-opening our teams to get on the field in small bubbles starting in July. THANK YOU- Adam Benson; Alison Wilson and Kayle Dickson for kickstarting ball for us in several categories-again, people like this are gems, and we need more of that! Within our Fusion/Xtreme programs, everyone was on board and invested in all the new protocols that were in place. Again thank you to our members for complying and following through. The amount of work that went into preparing, adjusting, spending hours understanding what it took to get North Langley Softball back onto the field, was like no other in my 12 years on the NLDS board. But we got it done! We continued to work through the Provincial/Township Return to Play phases, playing inter-association games, then district based games(Langley Fastball/Abbotsford) and finally given approval to "host" inbound teams from neighbouring communities, like Surrey, Maple Ridge, etc. in mid September.