01 September 2021
Baseball5 Community Corporate News
Aspiring Baseball5 coaches in Australia can now gain World Baseball Softball Confederation accreditation to teach the discipline in the community.
The free WBSC course includes seven 30-40 minute videos and an assessment at the end.
27 April 2021
Robina Braves will launch a 12-week Baseball5 competition next month after starting a three-week come-and-try program for the new discipline of the sport last week.
They hope to have six teams in each of an under-12 and under-18 division for the inaugural season, which will start on May 11 and culminate in a finals series.
10 December 2020
The Baseball5 World Cup will be played in even years starting in 2022, the World Baseball Softball Confederation announced overnight.
WBSC had originally scheduled the mixed gender competition for this year but it was postponed due to COVID-19.
10 November 2020
Ten teams will take part in the second-ever Queensland Baseball5 Schools Cup later this month.
The mixed gender, two age group event for Year 4-9 students will be held at Earnshaw State College on November 26.
06 October 2020
Australia will host the first-ever Oceania Baseball5 Qualifier in 2021.
The event – which will feature mixed-gender open and youth divisions – will decide Oceania’s representatives at the WBSC Baseball5 World Cup and Youth Baseball5 World Cup slated for next June in Mexico.
16 July 2020
Baseball5’s debut at the Youth Olympic Games has been put on hold after the International Olympic Committee and Dakar 2022 host nation Senegal agreed to postpone the event until 2026.
The decision comes as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause widespread concern around much of the world and after it already forced a major reshuffle of the IOC’s calendar, including the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by a year.
15 June 2020
The first-ever WBSC Baseball5 World Cup will now be held in June 2021 to allow more time for qualifiers to take place following the outbreak of COVID-19.
Mexico was slated to host the inaugural Baseball5 World Cup and Youth Baseball5 World Cup in December but the WBSC executive board late last week decided to postpone the event.
06 April 2020
Expressions of interest to host the first-ever Australian Baseball5 Championships close on Friday so what better time to look at the perfect venues for the sport’s newest discipline.
And due to its play everywhere nature the options for venues are pretty much limitless.
16 March 2020
The first-ever Australian Baseball5 Championships will be held in July.
Baseball Australia today opened expressions of interest to host the three-day event which will be the biggest showcase of the fast-paced and youth-focused urban discipline ever held in Australia.
09 January 2020
Baseball5 has been added to the Dakar 2022 Youth Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee approved the Dakar 2022 Organising Committee’s proposal to add Baseball5 to the program.
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