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The following information regarding
league boundaries only applies to the spring baseball season. There are no
boundary restrictions for the fall baseball season (i.e. "Fall
Ball").
What are Little League Boundary
Rules
Little League wants to ensure that all its participating
leagues prosper, so that we can all offer our communities a great baseball
experience that's close to home. To do this, Little League Baseball Inc (LLBI)
requires players to play in their "home league", or the league that is located
in your neighborhood. In 2014, LLBI introduced a revision to this rule, which
allows a player to play in a league if they attend school within a league's
boundaries (see more on this below).
The City of Sunnyvale currently
has three Little Leagues: Sunnyvale Little League (SVLL - that's us!),
Sunnyvale Metro Little League (SMLL) and Sunnyvale National Little League
(SNLL). We each have our own boundaries, which are typically separated by city
streets.
If you live on a street which serves as a boundary, your home
league is determined by the side of the street that you live on. In other
words, if Main Street was a boundary, and League A was situated on the North
side of the street and League B was situated on the South side of the street,
and you lived on the North side of Main St, then League A would be your home
league.
There's actually an easier way to figure out your home league.
Simply enter your home address in the
LLBI League Finder .
Sunnyvale Little League Boundaries
The one thing to
note about Sunnyvale LL is that our boundaries are not limited to Sunnyvale.
Our boundaries extend into the southern end of Los Altos and the north end of
Cupertino. So be sure to check the
LLBI League Finder to see what your home league
is.
Sunnyvale Little League's boundaries cover the former territories
of Serra Little League and Sunnyvale Southern Little League. Our boundaries are
defined as:
- Starting at the corner of DeAnza Blvd. and Stevens
Creek Blvd
- DeAnza Blvd turns into Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd
(heading toward Sunnyvale)
- Right on East Fremont Avenue
- Left on Picasso Drive
- Left on Crescent Avenue
- Right on Michelangelo Drive
- Right on East Remington Drive which turns into
South Fair Oaks Avenue
- Left on Old San Francisco Road
- Left jog over on S. Sunnyvale Avenue to W. El
Camino Real
- Right on West El Camino Real
- Left on Knickerbocker (Both sides of Knickerbocker
are in Sunnyvale territory)
- Knickerbocker follows the path of Highway 85, the
Sunnyvale neighborhoods that are on the border of 85 are in Sunnyvale
territory
- There is a slight jog that leads up to W Fremont
Avenue following the City limits of Sunnyvale
- The boundaries continue from Highway 85
- Right on W Fremont Avenue to Permanente Creek
- Boundary runs the length of Permanente Creek to
Stevens Creek Boulevard
- Left on Stevens Creek Boulevard
- Return to the corner of Stevens Creek Boulevard and
De Anza Boulevard
School Boundary
Exception
A modification to Little League's residency rule was
implemented in 2014 from Little League International. The rule in brief reads:
'A player may qualify for residency of a league if, the player attends a school
within the league boundaries.' Or worded slightly differently: 'Player A that
lives within League B boundaries and attends school within League C boundaries
has the option of playing baseball within either League B or C without
penalty.'
Example: If player A lives outside the boundaries of
Sunnyvale LL but attends a school whose address is within Sunnyvale LL's
boundaries (like Cherry Chase Elementary , West Valley, Cupertino Middle
School, or Sunnyvale Middle School), player A qualifies as a "resident" of
Sunnyvale LL and may play baseball with Sunnyvale LL without penalty.
See below for proof of school attendance criteria.
Schools which
qualify within the Sunnyvale Little League boundaries include:
- Challenger School - Sunnyvale Campus
- Cherry Chase Elementary School
- Cumberland Elementary School
- Cupertino Middle School
- Fremont High School
- French American School of Silicon Valley
- Garden Gate Elementary School
- Homestead High School
- Monteclaire Elementary
- Nimitz Elementary School
- Resurrection Parish School
- St Simon Parish School
- Stevens Creek Elementary
- Stratford School - Sunnyvale-DeAnza Campus
- South Peninsula Hebrew Day School
- Sunnyvale Middle School
- West Valley Elementary
Inter-Division
Transfers
While we fully encourage all players to play in their
home league, there may be circustances which make another league more
appropriate. You may request an inter-district transfer by:
- Submitting a request for transfer with your home
league
- You will also need to check with the league that
you are transfering to, to ensure there is room for the transfer.
- The transfer request will be submitted to the
District and Western Region for approval.
- If an approval is granted by the new host league,
District and Western Region, then the player may play in that league
This also applies to a player who has played in one
league, but then moves out of that league's boundaries. In this case, they may
also petition to continue to play in the original league. In this case the
request for transfer should be made with the original host league.
A
thing to note about transfers. As LLBI rules stand today, players who transfer
leagues are eligible to participate in post season (i.e. All Stars).
If
the player transfered to a league because their home league did not offer their
age-appropriate division of play, they are also eligible for participation in
the postseason so long as the host league does not have transfer players from 3
or more leagues on the respective postseason team. As an example, many
surrounding leagues do not offer Intermediate or Juniors Divisions, so players
who transfer into a league that offers that division would be allowed to play
in post season.
If you have any questions regarding league boundaries,
please contact an SVLL Board Member.
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