The use of a draft means that Coaches make the final determination of your player's placement within a specific division or on a roster. This means that although you will be asked to select a Division during the checkout process, the final determination of your player’s placement within a specific division will be during the draft. Your online selection during checkout is used only as a guide during our draft process. However, at the conclusion of the draft, your player may end up in another division than you originally selected.
As part of the registration process, you are asked to acknowledge that we may not honor a request to place your player:
- On the same team as any other player (including their sibling)
- On any specific team (exception: players who have families that are team sponsors are automatically placed on that team)
- With a specific manager, or coach
- With a team that practices or plays (or doesn't practice or play) at a certain time or day of the week
- Within a specific division or league
In short: Your player will be drafted onto a team by a coach. Appeals to League officials to place a player or to change draft results will not be accommodated.
In some instances a player's Little League Age and their calendar age are different. As such, they may be drafted in a different division than their classmates. Lawrence Little League must follow Little League International age guidelines in order to keep our charter and insurance, and cannot accommodate requests to keep a player together with classmates.
Fall Ball programs are more informal and while not guaranteed, we have more latitude to accommodate placement requests. Summer Tournament and Competitive Travel Teams utilize a tryout process for roster selection, not a draft.