SBMSA Reviews

My 12 year old daughter had never played softball before. Her coaches where lovely and the girls have her lots of encouragement. She had a great season. Thank you

My 3rd grade grandson had a very positive experience with his soccer team. He had basically no experience starting with the team and the coaches were very encouraging and patient. I saw no negative yelling and screaming, only cheers of encouragement and appropriate coaching. They were also taught good sportsmanship, shaking hands with opposing team at the start and finish of each game. The only improvement I would recommend is better communication at online sign up with the organization. I found information lacking on their website and did not receive a list of required equipment until meeting with the coach at the first practice when we were told my grandson would need soccer cleats. Since this was a new experience for us, we were not aware and by the time we went to Academy, all soccer cleats in my grandson's size were gone so he had to make due with a pair of sneakers with good traction. But hey, this is third grade, not the world cup and he did just fine.

It's a wonderful competitive community based league for youth to develop and learn sportsmanship and the life lessons that sports teaches.

SBMSA was great until they started letting tournament teams join leagues where all the other teams are drafted from a big group of kids. Now the tournament teams dominate and the draft teams don't have a chance. There are many better options, league's that are actually fair.

Extremely overly competitive and time consuming. Our son did soccer through them in elementary school, and with multiple practices and multiple games per week, we were on the sports field until 8:00, with an elementary school child, several nights a week. Sportsmanship is neither taught to the children nor modeled by the adults, parents and coaches screaming at their children and other children on the team for missed shots, booing children on the opposing team, and more than once I saw coaches getting into screaming altercations with each other. It's the classic youth sports league nightmare.

Yeah the place sucked Lebron James dunked on my son and my kid was crying. My sons name is Robin DeBank. If you dont like to see your kid crying play at the park instead