Frequently Asked Questions

Great question! To ensure the safety and fair competition, we've developed the Youth Sports Handbook (YSH), covering our philosophy behind youth sports and other useful information.

View the Youth Sports Handbook (PDF).

We're always looking for additional Volunteer Coaches. If you'd like be a Volunteer Coach, call 1 706-863-7523 or indicate you want to be involved during your athlete's registration process.

Cancellations due to weather or field conditions will generally be made no earlier than 3:00pm day of. Home page of quickscores will state if we cancel practices games. You can see this at the top of the page in red print. https://www.quickscores.com/columbiacountyga   

Coaches will also receive an email from their league coordinator.

You can find a list of all Columbia County parks on the Columbia County website at https://www.columbiacountyga.gov/ under the ‘Our Community’ tab and by clicking the ‘Parks & Trails’ link. 

We consider all of our leagues ages 8 and below developmental leagues that are geared to focus on introducing the sport and receiving repetition within the game. With this in mind, we form teams randomly through an auto generated system. Head Coaches are allowed two trades during the Coaches Meeting. 

All leagues ages 9 and up are considered competitive leagues where we keep standings and therefor form teams through an evaluation and draft process. The coaches will evaluate the kids in fundamental related drills to assess their current level of play and subsequently draft their team through a snake draft order. Any children who are unable to make the evaluation process are assigned to a team at the end of the draft at random and are not allowed to be drafted or traded for. This is to prevent any possible attempt of stacking a team through selecting a kid who did not attend the evaluation.

The rules for each in season league can be found in the ‘Downloads’ tab of quickscores. https://www.quickscores.com/columbiacountyga

The games schedule for all leagues can also be found on quickscores by clicking on the ‘Schedules’ tab and then selecting your specific league categorized by sport. https://www.quickscores.com/columbiacountyga

Games canceled due to weather, field conditions or similar conditions will be rescheduled. Rescheduled games will reflect as such on quickscores within a few days to a week. Coaches should also be emailed by their coordinator once the rescheduled games are finalized.

Games will not be rescheduled due to school functions.

Due to the size of our county and the number of registrants involved we are unable to fulfill team/coach requests. In all leagues ages 8 and below head coaches are allowed two trades during the coaches meeting if present. If you or someone you know is interested in coaching a recreation team you can reach out to Columbia County Parks, Recreation and Events at 706-863-7523 with your expressed interest.

Regarding leagues ages 9 and up, teams are formed by an evaluation and draft process which removes the possibility of team/coach requests as the coaches competitively select their team through a snake draft order.

In certain leagues we offer more than one location when registering your child for the season. Final registration numbers ultimately determine whether separate locations remain a viable option or if the two locations are combined into one to provide an adequate number of teams for a league. For this reason, locations are never guaranteed. 

Yes, either a league coordinator or part time field supervisor will be present at each park/gym site or cluster of fields each night of games. League Coordinators will be in their Columbia County collared shirts. Part time field supervisors can be identified by the bright neon yellow Columbia County staff shirts. The staff is in place to handle any issues or questions outside of calls within a game. They are not there to overrule our officials. 

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