What is the Performance League?

The 2025 season will mark the fourth season District 8 will offer the Performance League program for teenage players league age 13 to 16 that reside or go to school within the boundaries of our four member leagues: Calgary West, Rocky Mountain, Fish Creek and Calgary South.

The Performance League is a high-performance program that runs September through July each year with a short fall season followed by indoor fall/winter training and a spring season April to June.  Games are mostly weekends (3-4 games) and practices are weekdays. Travel is necessary to play teams in Lethbridge, Edmonton, Medicine Hat and North Calgary.

In 2024 we fielded an Intermediate, Junior and Senior team who played other Little League performance teams, Baseball Alberta, American Legion and Independent teams from all over the province.  The goal of the program is to provide a competitive outlet for players who want to experience more than community house league play, while also striving to keep the cost low to participate, and continue to play and practice on local fields.  Our program is coordinated and coached by volunteers, further reducing the cost to athletes.

The spring season leads to Little League Tournament Play in the month of July where teams will contend for a Divisional Championship with the winners advancing to a Canadian Championship and even a World Series. We are very proud of our 2024 Junior and Senior teams for being the Alberta Division Champions and advancing to the Junior and Senior League Canadian Championships!

Continuing to build off this success, we have selected three teams for the 2025 season that will train together through the fall and winter indoors and develop their skills, while also having a flexible and lower commitment schedule that will allow them to participate in other sports through the off-season.  Intake for our program starts in August each year, leading up to team selection in September.

If you have any questions regarding the Performance League, please contact Glen Lindsay at glindsay@littleleague.ca