Southlake Baseball Association

Ages 3–18

Best for a Southlake kid's first league baseball, with balanced drafts and a path from rec to select.

Baseball

Recreational & Competitive

Group classesOutdoorSeasonal leagueTryout requiredFall seasonSpring seasonSummer season

(817) 382-1518

info@dragonyouthbaseball.org

Operates out of Bicentennial Park, 476 W Southlake Blvd, Southlake, TX 76092

$150 - $250

Per-season registration by age group: 4U $150, 5U $200, 6U–18U $250. Summer All Stars run $300–$600 depending on tournament count; Select is $500–$2,500 per player per year. The City of Southlake adds a $5 non-resident fee for players outside 76092, and players who register after a season deadline are placed on a wait list. Refunds carry a $25 administrative fee if you ask before the draft, which is held the week after player evaluations; once the draft starts and players are rostered, nothing is refunded. Separately, the league awards $4,500 to $8,000 in scholarships a year, $500 to $1,500 each, to players who have come through Carroll Dragon Baseball or Dragon Youth Baseball.

Fall and Spring recreational seasons (the only difference is the Spring end-of-season tournament), plus a Summer All-Star season of 4–5 tournaments from mid-May through the end of June and a year-round Select program playing Texas Elite Baseball Association (TEBA) tournaments. Recreational teams play 1–2 games a week at Bicentennial Park with 1–2 practices (60–90 min) in Southlake; Premier teams play local-travel doubleheaders, half their games at nearby cities' parks. Teams are formed by coach draft after player evaluations; Select players must try out, typically in June and again in the Fall and Spring seasons for open roster slots. 2026 Fall Rec & Premier season: opening weekend 9/12–9/13/2026, last games 10/31–11/1/2026, and the Santa Cops Tournament in Grapevine follows on 11/8–11/9/2026. 2027 Spring Rec & Premier player evaluations are 1/23/2027, with weather make-up dates 1/24 and 1/30.

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Our take

The Southlake Baseball Association — Dragon Youth Baseball to everyone at the park — is the town's all-volunteer, nonprofit baseball league, and it's built like a ladder. Nearly every kid starts in the Recreational program, where coaches are required to rotate players through positions and bat the whole roster, so a beginner isn't parked in right field all season. From there it steps up: Premier for local travel, Summer All-Star tournament teams, and a Select program you try out for, which plays in a North Texas tournament league. The association says it fields over a thousand players a year, and by its own estimate most families stay on the recreational side; the competitive tracks are optional.

What a parent should understand going in: this is a draft league run by volunteers. Players attend an evaluation day, coaches draft balanced teams, and you can't request a specific coach — sibling requests are the exception the registration form honors. Coaching is parent-volunteer, with background checks and a certification course required, so team-to-team experience varies the way it does in any community league. No baseball experience is required to join, at any age, and the league's own materials are unusually candid about what each program expects from a family before you commit.

Local Tips

Home base is the baseball complex at Bicentennial Park on West Southlake Blvd, and the rhythms matter: the City of Southlake posts field status daily (by 7:30am Saturday, 11:30am Sunday and 3:00pm weekdays), so check it before you drive over on a gray day — lightning detectors clear the fields until an all-clear sounds. A few more things:

Register early; after the deadline you're waitlisted.
Fall and spring seasons are the same program, but fall runs fewer teams since many kids are in other sports — easier rosters, same baseball.
Premier families should expect weekend doubleheaders at parks in Grapevine, Coppell, Colleyville, Keller, and Trophy Club.
Non-Southlake residents pay a small city-imposed fee but there's no residency restriction.
Bring your own bat and glove to evaluation day — kids test better with their own gear, though loaners are on site.

Carroll ISD Connection

The league isn't run by Carroll ISD, but the alignment is close and real: it carries the Dragon name, its coaches clinic is run by Carroll ISD coaches, and it promotes the Carroll High School baseball program's fundraisers at its own fields. For a Southlake family it functions as the community on-ramp into the Carroll baseball pipeline — an independent nonprofit that feeds the district's program rather than a school-operated league.

Credentials

Dragon Youth Baseball is a 100% volunteer nonprofit run by a named executive board and age-group commissioners. Its credentials are organizational rather than individual: every board member, coach, and assistant passes a background check (the league runs more than 300 a year), coaches complete a free DYB certification course, and head coaches are vetted by a Coaches Selection Committee on playing and coaching history. The league's coaches clinic is run by Carroll ISD coaches. Player evaluations are graded by independent evaluators drawn from Select coaches outside the age group being assessed.

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