Registration opens March 3rd at 9:00am – Games begin the week of March 30th

Registration Opens April 28th at 9:00am – Games Begin Week of May 31st

Registration Opens June 30 at 9:00am – Games Begin August 3

All the information you will need to captain a team.

If you are new to the league, you and your team will have a great time this season. To help with your organizational tasks, we have put together the information below on what to expect as a team captain. There isn’t much to do, but the more you know, the easier your role will become. If there are any questions not answered below, please email us at Questions@KIFAC.org.

Ready to join the fun?  Here are your next steps:

1. Talk to your friends and co-workers to make sure you have enough people to form a team
2. Decide on a preferred day, time and park in which to play
   Our leagues fill VERY quickly, so be prepared with a back up choice of league day/time/park
3. Reserve a team slot in the Registration section below
4. Recruit your team
5. Have your team members complete their individual registration and pay their league fees at or prior to our Sign Up Happy Hour
   Details on the individual registration process will be sent to captains who successfully reserve a team slot

Visiting our site in the off season? Sign up for KIFAC Event Announcements using the form at the top or bottom of this page and you will receive announcements for future league registrations.

As you may have already seen, recruiting a team is pretty easy to do. By asking around at work or while out with friends you can put together the core of a team pretty quickly.  When those core players talk to their friends, you can quickly get to a full team.  Should you need a couple players to complete your roster, you can add Free Agents, pending their availability.  And remember, while the minimum is 16 players per team, we recommend a few more players per team to account for absences.  As for a maximum number of players, there isn’t one since you know best how many players would make sense for your team.

Once you have secured your team’s slot, you will direct your team members to register themselves into the league.  The three things all team members must do to participate are:

1. Be at least 21 years of age
2. Complete the online waiver of liability form
3. Pay their participation fee

In the past, a captain’s main duties (beside securing a team slot on the opening day of registration) were getting the signatures of all team members on the Denver Parks Waiver, as well as collecting league fees from all team members.  The easiest way to do this was to have all team members meet, sign and pay at our League Sign Up Happy Hour, a couple weeks before the season began.

However, individual registrations may now be completed online.  This includes both electronically signing the Waiver and paying.  Note that while the online registration process is much easier, it does come at a cost of a $5 processing fee (which only applies to those who pay online).

We will still hold a Sign Up Happy Hour because some team captains prefer that method, and let’s face it, happy hours are fun!  Very specific details on your options to have your team members register will be emailed to captains who successfully register.  Players who pay their league fees at the Happy Hour (by cash or check made payable to KIFAC) will still pay only $60 total.

Once your team is organized and everyone has signed up, your job is generally complete. The things that you will need to do or have someone do for you throughout the season are:

1. Make sure enough players will be present to field a team.
2. On game night, organize your team for play, which involves:
   • Creating a batting order
   • Having the proper number of people in the field
3. Have fun!

1. This is a social outing and anyone who gets out of control, bitches excessively or acts like an ass in general will be asked to leave. This is for fun–enjoy it as such.
2. The more the merrier on the sidelines so all friends, family and significant others are welcome to join us but not play, saving the on-field shenanigans for the folks funding the season. Friends are welcome to watch, laugh, and heckle, but not play unless a team is short and needs a sub.
3. We love dogs, but we ask that you not let yours play with the kickballs. For any unknowing dog owners, we warn in advance that dogs have sharp teeth and kickballs are easily punctured. If your doggie should go vampire on a kickball, you owe the league $10 for a replacement.
4. Heckling is highly encouraged but should never be mean in spirit or tone.
5. For anyone who has never played kickball (or forgotten how), any rules not specifically covered or changed below will revert to those of softball.
6. Eleven people play defense, including the catcher. (That means five people in the outfield).
7. Of the 11 playing defense, at least five must be female. You can play with as few as nine people on defense, but if so, at least four must be female. If you don’t have enough to do that, then you will officially forfeit the game. After forfeiting, you can field whomever you have present and play anyway. NOTE: Any team who forfeits a game will lose their right to a guaranteed team slot the following year.
8. Every team member who shows up for a game must bat (or ‘kick’ if you prefer). Kicking order must rotate girl, guy, girl, guy, etc. the entire game.
9. No cleats are allowed. Check your ego at the door and see Rule 1.
10. Each team gets three outs per inning and we play seven innings per game. Games average an hour in duration. During the summer league, slow games in the early league will be asked to clear the field after 1:15 to make way for the late league.
11. To increase the level of playing difficulty, all players (including batters) must have a cup in their hand filled with a beverage of choice, even if it is water. (If you choose to bring beer, it must follow the Denver Parks Alcohol Policy which means only 3.2% alcohol beer is allowed.) Putting the cup into your mouth or dropping it prior to a catch is not allowed and doing so nullifies the catch. A cup is defined as a container without a handle or lid where the top is a larger diameter than the bottom.
12. Pitches will not be called balls or strikes. Pitches must be rolled in a straight line and at a moderate speed (no bouncing, curves or fast balls). If you don’t like it, you don’t have to kick it, but you also can’t advance to first base on a walk. Kickers, don’t abuse this rule by waiting for the perfect roll, and pitchers, don’t try to be cute.
13. To keep things moving along, a batter will be out after kicking four fouls. An attempted kick that misses (a whiff) counts as a strike.
14. As in softball, runners may overrun first base and be safe from tagging, so long as they do not make a move toward second base.
15. Runners cannot lead off of or steal bases. (You have to keep one foot on the base until the ball is kicked).
16. Runners cannot tag up and run following a catch for an out.
17. No sliding and anyone who does will be out and shunned. Hopefully this one is self-explanatory. If not, please reference Rule 1. The one exemption to this rule is the use of Slip ‘N Slides that are set up from third base to home.
18. There is a line of cones in the outfield and all kicked balls must bounce in front of this line before crossing it. Any kick that crosses this line without bouncing first will be an out.
19. For safety reasons, all roadways and certain other boundaries will be designated out-of-bounds. If a ball is kicked into one of these areas, the kick will be ruled a ground-rule double.
20. All in-bounds trees are in play and balls can be caught falling from a tree for an out. If a ball becomes stuck in a tree, it is ruled a ground-rule double.
21.  If the ball is overthrown and goes out of bounds, runners are allowed to advance only one extra base past the base they were approaching when the ball went out.
22. True to schoolyard kickball rules, in addition to forced outs, a base runner may be gotten out by tagging them with the ball while you hold it, by hitting them with the ball by kicking it (even if it is their teammate kicking from home) or by hitting them with a thrown ball. However, to ensure that no one gets carried away, if a base runner is hit directly or indirectly in the head (i.e., even if the runner intentionally ducks into it or the ball bounces off a shoulder and hits them in the head) by a ball thrown or kicked by a defensive player, the runner is considered safe to the base to which they were approaching and will be given two extra bases as a penalty. The rule counts no matter how hard or soft the ball hits the person in the head and also counts whether or not the hit was intentional or unintentional. That’s just an additional risk you take by throwing or kicking it.
23. No intentional bunting is allowed. Should anyone swing as hard as they can and their ball only goes the length of a bunt, that’s OK. We don’t want to punish the already embarrassed. You should know if they are trying to bunt or not. This will be a judgment call if it happens and may be subject to the “Do-Over” rule described below.
24. If there is a play that is too close to call, KIFAC Kickball etiquette requires that instead of arguing, the two teams should mutually agree to simply “Do-Over” the entire play.
25. Have fun!
26. These rules are subject to change and if you can’t abide by them, we reserve the right to boot you to the curb with no refund.

KIFAC was founded in Denver in 2003 by a group of friends wanting a laid-back summer kickball league–an alternative to leagues that took their kickballing a little too seriously.  It was, and still is, simply a sports league at heart.  Along the way, almost by accident, the league realized that bringing together people to do fun things created a great opportunity to raise a little money for charity.   The idea was simple: do fun stuff, have an awesome league and donate a bit of the participation fee to charity . . . a win-win situation.  Since that start, the kickball league has expanded to three seasons, a bowling league was added in the winter and more activiites are on the way.

We originally called ourselves “Kick In For A Cause”, a play on both the kickball league that started it all, and the charitable aspect that evolved. However, other groups and events in town adopted similar names, so to avoid confusion we started going by the acronym of KIFAC.

The league’s first donation was to to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) and that idea continues today with KIFAC’s only monetary donation going to CAF. However, KIFAC also makes various donations to other groups by utilizing the power of a fun-loving crowd like KIFAC. See below for details on all of these groups.

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), a 501c3 non-profit organization, is a world leader in helping people with physical challenges get involved, and stay involved, in sports. Headquartered in San Diego with regional chapters, CAF provides unparalleled sports opportunities, hope, education, and inspiration enabling physically challenged individuals to live active lifestyles.

More than eighty cents of every dollar raised by CAF provides funding for adaptive sports equipment, training and competition expenses, programs and events that help challenged athletes get off the sidelines and into the game.

Whether it’s specialized equipment, training, or arranging enthusiastic encouragement from a mentor who has triumphed over a similar injury, CAF‘s mission is clear: give those with the desire to live active, competitive lifestyles every opportunity to compete in the sports they love.

For more information about CAF, visit their website at www.ChallengedAthletes.org

We Don’t Waste is an innovative provider of food for the hungry. They collect unused food from venues, caterers, restaurants, and other food purveyors and distribute the food to Denver’s under-served populations. Their efforts augment existing food and supplies needed by community-based non-profit agencies, with high quality protein, high quality produce along with wholesome, nutritional and varied “restaurant-grade” meals, along with personal hygiene items.

KIFAC is proud to support We Don’t Waste by donating the use of our League Van to We Don’t Waste during the off-season, where it is used for the pick-up and delivery of donated food. KIFAC also pays for the additional vehicle insurance needed for their use and any needed van maintenance while We Don’t Waste has the van. The photos at right are of our van in use.

For more information about We Don’t Waste, visit their website at www.WeDontWaste.org

Center for Work Education and Employment (CWEE, pronounced “see-wee”) is leading Colorado in overcoming the constraints and disparities of poverty, cultivating self-supporting families, and optimizing collaborative partnerships.  CWEE’s job-readiness programs offer well-rounded, individualized services to provide the assistance and support necessary for job candidates in the Denver Metro area to become self-sufficient.  

KIFAC hosts post-kickball season toy drive parties to help CWEE assist its participants in providing toys and other gifts during the holiday season. 

For more information about CWEE, visit their website at www.CWEE.org

Denver Parks and Recreation Field Maintenance Fund, as it sounds, is a fund set aside for the upkeep of athletic fields in the Denver Parks system. KIFAC takes great care to move the plate locations of our bases every night to lower the impact on the grass we use. However, with nightly use any grass will eventually wear out.

We believe we are not only users of our City’s great park system, but also stewards of it. Therefore, KIFAC supports the DP&R Field Maintenance Fund by making a monetary donation to it. KIFAC is proud to be the only known Sports League in Denver making such a donation in support of Denver Parks and the athletic fields we love.  To date, KIFAC has donated over $20,000 to the fund.

One World Running (OWR) is an international program promoting an awareness of health, fitness and nutrition by collecting previously owned running shoes and providing them to those in need in the United States and around the world. Unusable shoes are collected for Ecocycle where they are ground up and made into athletic surfaces such as basketball courts, tennis courts and school playgrounds.

KIFAC supports OWR by taking up donations of running shoes during each Kickball season. The photo at left is of the league’s collection one year.

For more information about OWR, visit their website at www.OneWorldRunning.com