We are ALWAYS looking for volunteer coaches! When registering your player, there should be an option on the registration to say you are willing to help coach. All coaches require are required to submit to a background check. 

In the weeks leading up to a sport's season, there will be registration links on the home page, sports page, and individual sport pages of our website. The links will take you to our registration application. You can pay online and provide documentation, such as birth certificates, during the registration process. 

Yes, every child gets to play! That may look different according to the sport. For example, our soccer program requires that each player play at least 50% of a game. Volleyball, due to to rotations, will allow all players to play. Baseball and softball have innings played requirements, and football requires a certain number of snaps. Please ask the director of each sport to clarify this question for a particular sport. 

SFO offers recreational sports and therefore anyone can sign up to play, even if they have no previous experience. 

While this is techinically possible, we HIGHLY discourage children from attempting to play more than one sport per season. Practice and game times will often overlap, meaning your child will not be able to be at all practices and games. This is unfair to players who attend all games and to teams who may have less players to choose from on game day. 

Yes! Through partnerships with groups such as Trojan Country Athletic Boosters, we are able to offer a limited number of athlectic scholarships available every year.  You can apply by clicking the "Financial Aid Request" link in the footer of the website. Also, if you have Medicaid, you can request that your insurance add Sherrills Ford Optimist as a provider. Most providers offer a voucher of up to $175 per per child per year. 

Unless a sport specifies that refunds are not available, they can be provided up until the point when evaluations are held.  After that date, a refund, minus a fee, may be offered. After uniforms are ordered, a refund MAY be offered, but we will deduct the cost of the uniform and a fee.  No refunds are offererd after game start. 

You can see all of our current sports on the sports tab of our website. 

Fall Sports

Registrations open early to mid-May (before school lets out)

• Football
• Soccer
• Fall Volleyball
• Cheer
• Fall Baseball
• Fall Softball

Winter Sports

Registrations open early to mid-September

•     Basketball

Spring Sports

Registrations open early-January

• Baseball
• Softball
• Tee-ball
• Spring Volleyball

Summer Sports and Camps

• Soccer Camp
• Adult Softball
• Adult Wiffleball

Yes! For the safety and security of our players, we perform background checks on coaches. 

For our youth sports, depending on the sport, we serve 3-year-olds to 18-year-olds. For adult sports, we serve 18-year-olds to as old as they still feel like playing. 

In general we don't allow parents to request a coach or to be on a team with a certain friend. The exceptions are that we, unless asked not to, place siblings on the same team unless they are in a different age bracket. We do this for a couple of reasons. First of all, it's a logistics nightmare for a sports director to attempt to please everyone, and second of all, it makes it much more difficult for coaches to attempt to "stack" teams due to players needing to be on the same team for "carpooling" purposes. 

Depending on the sport and how many teams might be in an age bracket for the same sport, a sports director may hold tryouts or evaluations so that teams can be evenly matched. If there is only one team in a age bracket, obviously no evaluations are necesssary.  Some sports, such as U13 soccer, group their teams by age. There might be (mostly) 10, 11, and 12-year-old team. This is to allow the players to play together longer. The exception to this is to allow siblings in the same age bracket to play on the same team.