CHALLENGER BASEBALL – WEST UNIVERSITY LITTLE LEAGUE

What Is It?: A baseball program for boys and girls with physical and mental challenges. The most fundamental goal of the Challenger Division is to give everyone a chance to play baseball and have a rewarding experience, regardless of limitations.

Help Needed: Buddies help their challenged partners by enabling them to play baseball. This might include pushing wheelchair-bound children around the bases or helping the players bat or field the ball.

Minimum Age to Volunteer: Minimum Age: Volunteers must be in 6th-12th grades.

Help Needed

CHALLENGER BUDDY

A Buddy’s job is simply to be a friend, engage the child in conversation, if possible; help him/her hit, throw, and catch the ball if needed; keep the child’s attention on the game; and make sure that the players are safe and that no one gets hit with a ball or bat.

Time Commitment:

The Challenger League plays on six Sundays each spring (March-May), at 2 PM. Trained buddies arrive 30 minutes before the games. Games last approximately 1 hour. Buddies are asked to commit to at least 3 of these games. (The League doesn’t need to know which games ahead of time.) This commitment is critical to the success of Challenger Baseball.

Suitable for Groups of Volunteers?

Training Needed:

Interested volunteers should fill out the buddy form here. New volunteers MUST attend one of the four 45-minute bleacher trainings which will take place at 1:15 at the first four games.

Contact:

Kristen Leach, [email protected].

Website:

https://www.challengersportshouston.com/challenger-baseball

Fox 26 Houston news story by Damali Keith (5 minutes 33 seconds) (April 2017)

Location:

3700 University Blvd, Houston, TX 77005