Wesley Chapel Dawg Pound

The WCAA Developmental Program (DP- Dawg Pound) is a non-profit organization dedicated to further teaching players of a higher ability the game of baseball Who?

What? The Wesley Chapel Athletic Association (WCAA) Developmental Baseball Program (DP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching players of a higher ability level of baseball to youth ages 6-15 years old in the Wesley Chapel area of Pasco County. We will foster an environment that gives players an opportunity to further develop skills, experience personal achievement in a team atmosphere

, practice good sportsmanship and teamwork. Furthermore, the WCAA-DP strives to enlarge and advance the scope of amateur/recreational baseball by stimulating interest and offering a high level of competition and coaching. We are committed to providing a sound and experienced organization that will assist coaches and players in developing skills that will make them successful in their future careers and as citizens in their community. The DP is above and beyond the recreational baseball league program. All WCAA-DP players must be registered and play in the recreational league. When the recreational season is active, your player is expected to attend all practices and games with their recreational team. All WCAA-DP activities will typically occur on Sunday’s. We’re excited to add DP to the rec program but not be a substitution for it. As a prerequisite, DP players will be required to be registered in the rec league while on the DP. The DP is NOT the All-Star team. All-Stars are selected at the end of the spring season by the divisional managers and the Player’s Agent for the division the player is in. The best players are chosen at that time to represent WCAA in the All-Stars. Some players on the DP will make the All-Stars but it will be solely on their skill level demonstrated during the spring season. The DP is NOT a “Travel Team” but when we play we will play against other travel teams. Where? All fielding practicing and training will be held at the WCAA baseball fields. Because we’re an extension of the existing program, we have the added benefit of having the fields available for our use. This is an advantage that many travel teams do not have and cannot offer. Field space in the surrounding area is very limited and with so many competitive travel teams popping up, many of them find themselves in a position of not having fields to practice on or traveling long distances just for practice. Having the fields available for the DP is a huge benefit and helps keep us close to a park where we already frequent and keeps the operational costs down. Once the squads are established and ready for play, some local travel will required to participate in Global Sports Alliance (GSA) league and tournament play. More information regarding travel will be given shortly. You can find more information regarding GSA at www.gsafloridabaseball.com. When? Unlike recreational baseball and more like travel ball, we’re looking to establish DP squads that will be together for the year and, hopefully, beyond. Every year after All-Stars has wrapped up, DP hold try-outs (towards the end of July) and squads will be established. DP managers and players will be asked to commit for the fall and spring season so that the chemistry of the squad can be solidified and ready to compete at GSA league play and tournaments. We will keep an abbreviated GSA league play schedule that will not conflict with WCAA rec league play. Once the spring season ends and All-Stars begin the DP squad for that age group ends and each player must try-out to be considered for the next age group. Why? The purpose of the WCAA-DP is to provide extra training, practice and game-time situations to players selected through the try-out process within each age group to foster the potential of each of its players. The DP is perfect for the player that excels at the recreational level but may not be ready for a competitive travel team OR for the families that have an above average player but cannot commit to a travel team OR the player wishes to play other sports and travel baseball consumes too much time to do so. Players in the program are selected by the manager of their perspective age group and the coordinator of the DP. As players leave, new players will be selected. Although we will participate in some Global Sports Alliance (GSA) league play games, we will only do so once or twice a month. When we do play, we will play a minimum of two games (double header) that may or may not be back-to-back.

08/19/2016

WCAA and Dawg Pound families. As many of you probably already know, I have chosen to leave WCAA. It was with a heavy heart that I made that choice. Prior to last fall, the Development Program (DP) was a select group of kids that got together on Sunday's to practice for a couple hours. I was tasked to get it more organized and build the program....

Many, many hours, day, weeks, months of work finally started to pay off once the teams started to gel. All age groups saw some success. The 10U and 12U teams were competitive from the beginning while the other teams grew every week. The 8U ended the fall season by winning a championship in a tournament for travel teams. We continued to keep it together and played in GSA throughout the fall and spring.

Once All-Stars rolled around in the spring, not all Dawg Pound players made the All-Stars but the benefits of the program were evident once we started playing in the tournament. The A Ball division went undefeated at the district level and came in second at States. The year before the AA division had two teams and went 0-4 at the district level. This year between both teams we went 5-4 at the district level. This was after we practiced kid-pitch all year and the district decided to change it to a machine-pitch format after 30 years of being kid-pitch. The players were able to quickly adjust. In the O'Zone division, we did phenomenal! We came in first and second with our two teams at the district level sending both to the State tourney! We played well at States but fell a little short. The year prior, neither team placed at the district level.

It's been an awesome ride. I loved being apart of it all. The Dawg Pound was like a second family for me. Seeing the orange and black all over the place at WCAA and at different parks was awesome. There was a lot of pride within the teams as well and a lot of long-term friendships we made. But there are some things that just won't change at WCAA and it was time for me to go. I felt I needed to go to a place where I could see some sustainable change.

With that said, it is my understanding that the Dawg Pound will not go on as I intended but will revert back to the DP where the kids just practice on Sunday's...after all the success of the program I don't understand why but, then again, some things just won't change at WCAA.

Anyway, it's been an honor to create such a successful program and share in your players development and growth. I hope and pray that everyone enjoyed it as much as I have. There are many families that I will miss spending the weekends at the ball park with but I'll be around....just down the street. If you liked the Dawg Pound program and want to continue that format, I can recommend checking out North Tampa Athletic Association. They have a program called the AB (Advanced Baseball) program and it's almost identical to what we were doing with Dawg Pound. Hope to see you there.

God Bless.

Andy

03/12/2016

Dawg Pound families. I'm arranging to have DP team and individual pictures taken on the same day as rec picture day.

Details coming soon.

03/12/2016

We're at it again! Come support your favorite Dawg Pound team this weekend. We're playing in Wellswood, North Seminole, and Dover.

8U playing at 9 am and 11 am in Wellswood
11U playing at 11 am and 1 pm in North Seminole
12U playing at 9 am and 1 pm in Bullets Complex.

Don't forget to set your clocks forward and come out and see us!

Go Dawgs!

02/28/2016

Come support your favorite Dawg Pound team this weekend. We're playing in Wellswood and North Seminole.

8U playing at 9 am and 11 am in Wellswood
11U playing at 11 am and 3 pm in North Seminole
12U playing at 9 am and 1 pm in Wellswood.

Come out and see us!

Go Dawgs!

02/04/2016

01/30/2016

Both of our 11U and 12U Dawg Pound teams will be playing at the Bullets complex in Dover tomorrow, 1/31. 11U games are at 10am and 2pm and the 12U games are at 10am and noon. Come support both teams!

Go Dawgs!

Photos from Wesley Chapel Dawg Pound's post

01/25/2016

Great way to start off the 2016 Spring season! DP 12U went 1-0-1 today against some pretty good competition. Looking forward to seeing the other teams on the diamond representing Wesley Chapel Baseball!

01/09/2016

8U Dawg Pound - Sonny's BBQ Battle of the Bay Tournament Champions!

01/09/2016

For our catchers out there!

01/09/2016

Good morning, Dawg Pound and welcome to the 2016 Spring Season! To finish up the fall, the 8U, 11U and 12U competed in the GSA Fall League playoffs. Both the 8U and 12U suffered tough loses in their first bracket-play games. The 11U really came together and made it to the semi-finals before coming up a little short.

All in all, the DP was a great success. Our 7U squad had an uphill battle the entire season with GSA nor having a true 7U division and being forced to play up to 8U. Nonetheless, the were still able to pull off a win at the end of the season proving why it's important to stay focused in the face of adversity.

All squads in the DP enjoyed some success during the season. Every team won at least one game; and these were all true travel baseball teams which speaks volumes.

Our 8U squad actually won a tournament championship at the end of the season. An 8 team single elimination tournament, Battle of the Bay played down in Eastbay, where they went 5-0 during two days of baseball to take home the championship! Congrats to the 8U.

We're looking forward to another successful season. If you have not already done so, please reach out to your respective managers and let them know that you are committed to the DP for the spring season so that they may start looking for replacements for any open roster spots. Please also make sure that you are registered for spring rec ball as this is a requirement to play on the DP.

Again, thank you for the great season. I know we can only get better and am looking forward to see our players develop over the months to come.

Go Dawgs!

Andy Spaw

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