Click here for 2025 Elk River Travel Teams.

Players who tried out that are not listed will automatically be placed in our house league.

2025 Travel Tryout and House Evaluation will be held on:

TBD

Tryouts will be held at:
Furniture and Things Community Event Center
1000 School St. Elk River, MN  55330
(Connected to the Ice Arena, next to the High School)

Tryouts/Evaluations will be held at the NEW Multi Purpose Facility (the old Olympic Hockey Arena).

Travel players are required to attend both days.

Times for Sunday tryouts will be posted Saturday night.

Welcome to the Elk River Baseball travel program. We are very aware that this is an exciting and stressful time for both the ballplayers and the parents. For that reason, we have prepared an outline that explains the tryout process in detail.

We are very confident that we have created a system that gives everyone an equal chance to compete for a spot on these teams.

There will be at least one team formed at each age level. Most age levels will have a AAA and a AA team formed, however this is dependent on numbers and ability.

Tryouts are held around the third weekend of March each year.  Exact dates are posted on our website around September/October.   Players are expected to make both tryout sessions for their age group (Saturday AND Sunday)

Thank you for your commitment to our program. We look forward to seeing you at the ballpark!

The players will be evaluated on the following areas:

Ground Balls: 35%
· Fielding Form
· Throwing Form

Fly Balls: 10%
· Catching Form
· Throwing Form

Machine Hitting: 30%
· Swing Form
· Bat Speed
· Contact

Live Hitting: 15%
· Swing Form
· Plate Discipline 
· Contact

Running: 0%
· Time 1
· Time 2

Pitching 10%
· Pitching Form
· Pitch Accuracy
· Pitch Speed

Our travel team selections are based off of a two part system:

1.  The top players (based on their scores from our tryout evaluators) are locked in each age group, and are automatically placed on the top team at that age.  The amount of locked players varies per age group.  (8 - 9U&10U, 7 - 11U, 6 - 12U and up).

2.  The remaining players are also based off tryout scores as well as coach input, and travel director approval.    Overall score is what dictates the majority of these decision.

While no system of selecting teams will result in all players and parents agreeing, this system has proven to work well.  Our goal is ultimately to place the correct players on each travel team based on ability.

Any questions regarding this process can be sent to the Travel Director.

Note: Those trying out and making a team will only be eligible to play on the travel team they are selected for.   Rosters are final once they are posted.

Siblings:  Parents of siblings at the same age (e.g., twins, etc.) will need to decide between two options before the travel tryouts:

Option A: Treat each sibling independently; siblings could be placed on different teams.

Option B: Place siblings on the same team; players will be placed on the same team at the appropriate level for the lowest ranked sibling. 

None of the evaluators used are affiliated in any way with Elk River Baseball and they do not live or have children playing baseball in the district.

Only the evaluators will score the players, no other input from any other sources will be used.   Each player is only identified by a random number placed on their shirt.

Some qualifications of our evaluators are as follows:

• Professional baseball players.
• Collegiate baseball players.
• Professional baseball instructor.
• Tryout judges for other communities.
• Coaches from various levels.

NO SPECTATORS will be allowed in tryouts. This rule will be strictly enforced and we ask that you all respect this request!