((2014 info remains for reference — 2015 info will be added in February))  Registration Opens March 4th at 9:00am – Games Begin March 31

((2014 info remains for reference — 2015 info will be added in February))  Registration Opens April 29 at 9:00am – Games Begin June 1

((2014 info remains for reference — 2015 info will be added in July))  Registration Opens July 15 at 9:00am – Games Begin August 4

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 this information 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.

If our league sounds like too much fun to miss:
1. Ask around to make sure you have enough people to form a team
2. Reserve a team slot on the Registration tab above
Our leagues fill VERY quickly, so be prepared with a back up choice of league day/time/park
3. Recruit your team
4. Turn in your team’s paperwork and league fees at our Sign Up Happy Hour
Details will be sent to captains who successfully reserve a team slot
5. Submit your electronic Team Roster no later than the day after the Happy Hour (instructions on how to use your online Team Roster will be sent after successful registration)

Visiting our site in the off season? Sign up for KIFAC Event Announcements using the form at the 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 usually put together the core of a team pretty quickly.  When those players talk to their friends, you can quickly get as many people as you need.  Should you need a couple players to complete your roster, you can add Free Agents, pending their availability.  And remember, while the true minimum is 16 players per team, we recommend a few more players per team to account for absences.

While recruiting, keep track of who has committed to play by name and email address using your online Team Roster.

The three things all team members must do to be able to participate are:

1. Be at least 21 years of age
2. Sign the Denver Parks Waiver of Liability
3. Pay their participation fee   (Cash or check made payable to KIFAC)

The easiest way to collect both signatures and money at the same time is to have your entire team attend our League Sign-Up Happy Hour or to hold your own team happy hour. Information regarding the League Sign-Up Happy Hour will be emailed to captains who successfully register a team online.

With whichever option you choose, you will likely have a few conflicts with team members. Have these people meet you in advance to provide their signature/payment. A couple things to consider with this process:

1. All waivers and payments for your team are due the night of the League Happy Hour. If you want to sign up your entire team prior to the League Happy Hour, no problem, you will just need make arrangements to drop off everything at the Happy Hour.
2. If you have a conflict and will not personally be at the Happy Hour to sign people up, you will need to have someone come in your place to sign up the rest of your team.
3. Any player who joins your team after the sign up deadline will be charged a $10 late fee.
4. The League Sign-Up Happy Hour is provided as an easy time and place to have your team meet. However, you are responsible for collecting all signatures and checks at the Happy Hour. You will then turn everything in at once when you have everything complete.
5. More instructions and information will be provided to captains who successfully register.

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 is unique in that all of our events and sports leagues have a charitable aspect. Kickball started it all by donating money to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) and that idea continues today. KIFAC will make a donation on behalf of each of our leagues to CAF, we donate our league van for use in the off-season by We Don’t Waste, and we also collect used shoes for use by One World Running. Please read 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 involve, 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