Coaching Annoucement

Patriots Post 217 is pleased to announce their head coaches for the 2022 summer season.  Andy Shuman will be the head coach of the Jr. Legion prep team (ages 13 & 14).  Andy is a long time BYBA coach and former coach of the Blast diamond team.  Adam Lieb will be the head coach of the Jr. Legion team (ages 15 & 16).  Adam is also from the BYBA organization and has vast experience coaching in their program, the Blast and as an assistant with the Prep and Jr. Legion teams.  Brian Moyer will be the head coach of the Sr. Legion team (ages 17-19).  Brian has been coaching for 20 years in the BYBA and Babe Ruth leagues.  He was also an assistant on the Sr. Legion team last season.  Mike Reinert will be assisting Coach Moyer and serve as the business manager for the team.  Anyone who is interested in serving as assistant coaches for any of these teams, please indicate when registering on the OVYL website. 

Patriots Post 217 Baseball is holding registration for all three of their teams for the 2022 season. Try-outs for all teams will be held on Saturday, October 9th and Sunday, October 17th at the Brandywine High School varsity field from 11 AM to 1 PM.  There will be an informational parent meeting following the 2nd tryout date at the Ray Masters Legion Post 217 in Topton.

• Jr. Legion prep (13 & 14 year old)
• Jr. Legion (13-16 years old)
• Sr. Legion (17-19 years old)

Questions?

Mike Reinert
Patriots Post 217 Legion Board President
mreinert@technicon2.com

The Spring 2022 soccer registration will be available on the youth league website starting December 1, 2021, and will end January 2, 2022. The age groups/divisions carry over from the Fall 2021 season. So the age groups for Spring 2022 will be:

U6/8: Birth Years 2014-2016
U9: Birth Year 2013
U10: Birth Year 2012
U11: Birth Year 2011
U12: Birth Year 2010
U13: Birth Year 2009

We offer a  U6/U8 season, with clinics run by coaches as well as volunteers from the boys and girls high school teams. The clinics are held on Saturdays mornings for one hour for six weeks (typically running the same schedule as the older kids play in RBJSL).

The Spring travel season (U9 through U13) is intended to be more relaxed with less practices leading up to the games, and less practices during the season. Players are able to participate in both soccer and baseball programs in the Spring, and it is understood that baseball takes priority over soccer practices and games when conflicts arise. Due to field conditions, it can be difficult to arrange more than one or two practices before the start of the games. During the season, practices are at most once per week. The games usually start in mid-March and go through the end of April, with only six total games.

Soccer Registration

Unfortunately due to lack of golfer participation, this year's annual golf fundraiser at Willow Hollow will be postponed.  We are currently looking to reschedule this fundraiser for sometime in spring 2022.  We will be refunding golfers payment who did register in the near future and contacting all of the sponsors directly regarding refunds.  This is very disappointing to have to announce as it is our primary fundraiser event for the 2021 year. 

The Oley/Brandywine Boosters Club supports the legion baseball teams involved in the Patriots Post 217 organization financially by holding periodic fundraisers to offset the rising costs associated with playing American Legion baseball.  It is important to note that the Boosters club has primarily funded the Jr. Legion prep team in past years to help offset the costs for the 13-14 year old age group.  It is important to get new individuals involved in the Boosters club as many of the current booster members have players who have or will be aging out of the Legion program in the near future.  We are actively seeking anyone who is interested in being part of the Boosters club to please contact me by October 15th.  We will be holding our reorganization meeting sometime in late October and new membership will be announced along with officers for the 2022 term.  Anyone who is interested please email me directly at this email address.

Mike Reinert
Oley/Brandywine Boosters Club President

mreinert@technicon2.com
484-256-4748