DRAW AREAS/PLAYERS

A. Organizations must designate a High School SAU district from which it draw it’s players from. (in the case of DFL we are SAU 11)

B. Players shall live within that organization’s represented High School’s SAU district or from a town(s) that contracts or has an agreement to send its students into that SAU district.

1. Organizations may take players from outside their represented High School’s SAU district.

2. Said players will then go thru the league’s waiver process*

C. Player Designation:

1. Each Senior and Junior Level Varsity Team must designate (as part of its game day roster, name and jersey number) no fewer than 18 “Varsity” players. These players cannot play in JV games unless a team does not have enough players to field a JV team. See Rules and Regulations for further information.

2. If a team has fewer than 36 total players (Varsity plus JV); such team may designate a smaller number of Varsity players to be determined by subtracting 18 from the total number of available players. (For example, if a team has 30 players for both Varsity and JV, it may designate only 12 players as Varsity: (30 – 18 = 12).

*Waiver Process:

A. Organizations wishing to waiver in a player will supply the player’s name, DOB, current town of residence, grade level and reason why they are requesting a waiver either by email or verbally at a regularly scheduled league meeting.

B. Upon receipt of player information, Board of Directors with vote yes or no to waive player in. Simple yes majority is required for waiver approval.

C. A player shall go through the review/waiver process only once.

Age and Grade Restrictions (Senior Division)

All players shall be less than freshman (grade 9) in school and not have reached their 15th birthday by October 1st.

Age and Grade Restrictions (Junior Division)

a. All players must be within the age of 9, 10, 11 and 12 and within grades 4, 5, and 6.

b. A player must be a minimum of 9 years old prior to the first regular season game and entering a grade as indicated above.

c. A player must not have reached their thirteenth (13) birthday before September 1st.

d. All teams must be able to provide birth certificates for their players, upon request by the league.

Age and Grade Restrictions (Youth Division)

a. All players must be within the age of 7, 8 and 9 and within grades 2, 3, and 4.

b. A player must be a minimum of 7 years old prior to the first regular season game and entering a grade as indicated above.

c. A player must not have reached their eleventh (11) birthday before September 1st.

d. All teams must be able to provide birth certificates for their players, upon request by the league.