With the weather warming up it’s time to start thinking about lining up your athletic plans for the spring and summer. If you’re interested in soccer, frisbee, or basketball, hurry over to District Sports – registration deadlines for most of their leagues are this week, and it looks you might be able to register for a couple even though the deadlines were earlier this week.
If you’re interested in kickball, you have until March 20 to register for the newly organized DC Kickball league. Local blogger Carter Rabasa writes on the league blog (!) he has played kickball in D.C. for the past years with existing teams, and thought that he could do better. Pledging to “spend every nickel that comes in on the players in the league” Rabasa says his league will be “slightly cheaper ($50 per player) … and our parties will be legendary.” He’s even posted photos of the fields, at Walter Pierce Park in Adams Morgan, where he assures us as of March 2 “DCKickball is the only kickball organization permitted to play on Walter Pierce this summer.”
Carter’s competition is the World Adult Kickball Association, a national organization that fields 17 divisions in the D.C. region alone. Registration to play for a WAKA team ranges from $60 to $70 dollars per person. In February we were forwarded an internal email from the WAKA league by a tipster where a league official wrote “We are hitting some major obstacles with this spring season. DC Park and Rec has denied our permits for many of our requested fields. This is causing a major shuffle and right now all of the current spring leagues are getting priorities on their fields.” We haven’t heard anything since and assume WAKA has sorted out their field shortage. There’s a wide range of other amateur sports leagues in the area – what are your favorites? One DCist played in the Congressional Softball league for years, but tells us “recent construction around the monument grounds has made getting a field all but impossible,” and the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation offers a variety of options.
