Plymouth Wayzata Youth Softball Association

Athletes in grades 2 & 3 are in Division II. Teams are generally formed by elementary school and girls can sign up to be on the same team as a friend. Division II in-house league will play 2 week nights. Athletes in this league use a pitching machine. This division continues to emphasize the balance between skill development and fun - everyone plays equally and gets to try all the positions they want. Scores are kept and we begin to introduce fastpitch game concepts.

Games and practices are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings* from early May through late June. In addition to playing PWYSA teams, we play teams from the Hopkins-Minnetonka, and St. Louis Park organizations. There may be an additional skills development clinic during the season. The timing of Picture Day is usually known at the time of walk in registration and is generally scheduled for a Saturday morning. We have tournament (with trophies or medals) at the end of the season with pairings drawn at random.

*Our Division 2 games are scheduled on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s MHGS also schedules division 2 on Tuesday and Thursday. St Louis Park schedules Division 2 games on Monday and Thursday. Each PWYSA team will typically end up with 1 Monday night game at St. Louis Park during the season.

After athletes have experienced Division II, they may choose to move to our travel program at the 10U level (more competitive) - see the travel page, or can advance to Division III (more recreational). Although players may elect to attempt to move to the travel program anytime after one year of playing Division II, we find it is easiest for player to elect to move at this time rather then wait until later years.