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Welcome to AAD/USSSA′s home on the web!

AAD/USSSA is dedicated to promoting, organizing and facilitating amateur athletic baseball programs to the youth community of the region. Founded in 1990 as a non-profit 501-c-4 organization and affiliated with the USSSA national governing body of amateur sports, we hope you find this web site and our programs beneficial to your recreational goals.

The spring of 2012 marks the 18th year of our volunteers offering spring and fall competitive youth baseball leagues and tournament programs and 22nd season overall. During our first baseball season we offered a 12u division and consisting of 5 teams at the old Albuquerque Sportsplex. Today there are regularly 60-70 teams in 5-6 divisions of league play and 4-5 tournaments with single year age divisions of play utilizing numerous facilities in the Albuquerque area.

Over the last twenty years AAD/USSSA has grown considerably in its scope, depth and appeal. As we head into 2012, almost 2000 area youths will be participating in baseball, league and tournament events. This program is an affiliate of the national USSSA organization offering our members extended regional and national competition. In recent years, our baseball program alumni have filled most of the roster spots on many of the area’s high school teams. Many of our athletes have gone on to play college baseball and several are currently participating professionally.

AAD/USSSA sole mission is to provide organized competitive baseball programs to the community and it is organized entirely by volunteers.

We wish you, your children and all our participants every success both on and off the field. We pledge our support as you enter into what we hope is a positive experience; it is ultimately you, who will make your program successful.

“The one constant through all the years, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past…. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.” James Earl Jones, Field of Dreams

Dana M. Gilmer
President - AAD
Director - USSSA
PO Box 67275
Albuquerque, NM 87193
505-417-1810

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AAD/USSSA Player / Parent Handbook
AAD/USSSA Player / Parent Handbook Whether...
10 Tips for a Successful Team Transition
As the 2011 baseball season enters the homestretch,...
Free Agents
FREE AGENTS Coaches looking for players? ...
USSSA Age Calculator
NOT SURE WHAT LEAGUE AGE YOUR SON / DAUGHTER...

AAD/USSSA Player / Parent Handbook

by posted 12/19/2011

AAD/USSSA Player / Parent Handbook

Whether you are new to competitive youth baseball or on an established team it is important to understand the scope and purpose of the AAD/USSSA programs. This Handbook is offered to explain our basic philosophical approach to the youth baseball programs we offer. Another purpose of this Handbook is to provide answers to many of the frequently asked questions players and parents might have during the course of the year.

Just as AAD/USSSA is a work-in-progress, so is this handbook. We do value your opinions. If you find an answer to a question in the Handbook or on the web site which does not satisfactorily address your specific concerns, or if you believe the suggested resolution is incorrect, please send an e-mail with your proposal to the organizations email address –

10 Tips for a Successful Team Transition

by AAD USSSA posted 07/05/2011

As the 2011 baseball season enters the homestretch, many parents and coaches are starting to ask, “What happens next year?” To stimulate thinking, I offer 10 tips for a successful team transition(click here).

After all, it’s unrealistic to think you’ll have the same team with all the same players next spring. Kids grow and develop at different rates. Their interests evolve and their needs will be different.

Change happens.

This makes end of the season team transitions a land mine for youth coaches. Parents aren’t always reasonable people in times like this. Thinking about the next season forces them to confront their own fears, expectations, vicarious dreams, desires and inflated assessments of their offspring’s talent.
And, with the explosion of teams and leagues, every kid will have options. So, coach . . . what is your plan for next year? Better to start giving that some clear, rational thought now rather than make something up on the spot with parents staring at you at the team party.

Check out 10 Tips For A Successful Team Transition. It’s free on my Website (www.CoachClemens.com - its on the right hand column). Notice I didn’t say smooth transition . . .

Hopefully your transition will be successful – you get what you need, most other parents and kids do too, and you look forward to next season with your health and dignity intact.

Good luck, and here’s to your own Perfect Season in 2012!

Coach Dan Clemens
Author of A Perfect Season: A Coach's Journey to Learning, Competing and Having Fun in Youth Baseball
www.CoachClemens.com

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Free Agents

by posted 01/01/2011

FREE AGENTS

Coaches looking for players? See our our list of Free Agents. For access to the list, contact .

Players looking for a team? Submit your info via our Free Agent Placement Request Form. We DO NOT place your child on a team. We make the information readily available to the coaches in our area. If you submitted info PRIOR to AUGUST 1, 2011 and are still looking for a team, please resubmit the form.

Be sure to check out our OPEN TRY-OUT page. You can find team try-outs and manager contact information there.

USSSA Age Calculator

by AAD USSSA posted 07/22/2009

NOT SURE WHAT LEAGUE AGE YOUR SON / DAUGHTER / TEAM IS? VISIT THE USSSA AGE CALCULATOR.


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