The GBL Summer Baseball Season will commence as follows

Women     Saturday, 3rd October 2021

Juniors      Saturday, 9th October 2021

Seniors      Sunday, 10th October 2021

Masters      Monday, 11th October 2021

We would like to acknowledge the Queensland Government Justice Department and the Gambling Community Benefit Fund for awarding our Club - $32,499.00 - for the purchase of a new ride on mower and funds to provide the installation of concrete slabs to support two existing grandstands.

We are proud to work with Brisbane City Council's Brisbane Lifestyle Connected Communities to finalise our lease recently. Our lease is current until 13 June 2024 under council reference 112/445/444/409-002

We are also pleased to acknowledge Brisbane City Council's Building Stronger Communities Grant provided to the Club to build a new Amenities block in 2020.

Western Districts Baseball Club is a incorporated body through the Office Of Fair Trading, Queensland Government. Incorporation Number is IA05333 effective 25 Aug 2014 under document number 3494331. http://www.qld.gov.au/law/fair-trading/

The Club would like to acknowledge the Lord Mayor's COVID-19 Direct Assistance Program in providing the Club a Grant of $10,000 to pay for Water and field maintenance works at Atthows Park, Darra

This competition in partnership with SRV Australia to facilitate a Teeball/Rookieball competition has been updated now that sufficient  player numbers have been achieved

This program will run on Monday nights 6pm - 7pm

More details later.

The Wests Baseball Pitchers & Catchers Academy is to be held:- • Sundays 3.00pm - 5.00pm • Dates: 15th; 22nd, 29th August; 5th & 12th September 2021 • Head Coach: John Zietek - 0432 191 495 All welcome

Coach Accreditation

In terms of Accreditation requirements to coach in Queensland, coaches are required to hold:

Community Coach General Principles

USA Baseball Coach Certification A

USA Baseball Coach Certification B

All of these self-paced, online training courses are available for free. Coaches will need to retain their certificate of completion and present these certificates to their Club, Region or State to verify their accreditation status. These certificates can also be added as qualifications in a coaches’ mem

2021 QBUA Association Umpire Seminar Student Application Form
This year, the QBUA is holding an Association Umpire Seminar at All Stars Baseball Field (Bannister Park), 116 Gerler Road, Hendra, scheduled for two days:

– Saturday 11 September 2021 from 8:00am to 5:00pm; AND
– Sunday 12 September 2021 from 8:00am to 5:00pm.

What to wear: Suitable pants, running shoes, cap.
What to bring: Water, sunscreen, glove, indicator, any required medication.

The cost of this Seminar has been reduced from $120 to $90 (including lunch) due to COVID not allowing QBUA to host a Seminar last year.

To enrol please fill in the application form:  Student application 2021 QBUA Association Seminar

Regards,

Mark Bramwell

Umpire Development

HELLO - WELCOME TO THE WESTERN DISTRICTS BASEBALL CLUB - HOME OF THE BULLDOGS

You might be reading our website page for the first time or for the 100th time.

In any event, the Club Committee would like to welcome you all to the Club. We are ONE CLUB with lots of different member groups; male and female; young and old; players and supporters, life members and guests; sponsors and backers; Mums and Dads - BUT WE ARE ONE CLUB.

The Club is a very inclusive Club providing pathways for players starting at Teeball (Under 8 years of age) and progressing all the way from Junior teams to Seniors and Masters baseball playing with a mens team, a mixed gender team or a women's team.

Please scroll through the pages on this website - there is lots of information reagrding our Club and the various baseball competitions available.

Western Districts baseball is a proud supporter of Women's seniors and junior girls playing baseball and the Club has teams for both groups playing in the GBL Summer baseball Competition.

• The Senior Women's team plays on Saturday afternoons with game times 3.00pm - 5.00pm.
• Junior girls play games on Saturday morning with their age group.

John Pickford is our Womens Coordinator and please contact John as follows

Women’s Co-ordinator for Western Districts Baseball Club

59 Westcombe Street, Darra QLD 4075

Email: - Women@WestsBaseball.com.au   

Instagram westswomensbaseball

Website WestsBaseball.com.au

The follwing arrangements will be in place for pre-season training

Pre-season training will commence on Sunday, 15th August and will continue until the start of the season unless otherwise advised by your team/age group Coach

JUNIOR TEAMS

• 8.30am - 10.30am  Little League & Junior League
• 11.00am - 1.00pm   Senior League and Big League (U18)

SENIOR TEAMS

• 2.00pm - 4.00pm    All senior teams

PITCHERS & CATCHERS

• 3.00pm - 5.00pm   All Players welcome

We are also pleased to acknowledge Brisbane City Council's Building Stronger Communities Grant of $100,000 provided to the Club to Install new amenities block to support baseball at Atthows Park, Darra.

Registrations for the 2021/2022 now open.

Baseball Queensland is using the following Player Registration system for the 2021/2022 season

Registrations open - from Monday, 2nd August 2021

To register with Western Districts Baseball Club please click on this link www.wests.link/signup and follow the prompts to register your player.

If you have previously played at another Club and wish to join Wests, you will need to apply for a transfer from your previous club.

The Queensland Government acting through the Department of Housing and Public Works (Sport and Recreation) - has provided  $177,371 to Western Districts Baseball Club to construct new batting nets to support baseball at Athows Park, Darra

The Club would like to acknowledge the provision of Grant funding from the State Government for the following - Western Districts Baseball Club Incorporated has been approved $4933 under the Active Restart Infrastructure Recovery Fund to replace lights and purchase playing equipment to support baseball at Darra.