{"id":5846,"date":"2025-07-27T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.llwadistrict9.org\/?page_id=5846"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:25:32","slug":"letter-to-d9-leagues-and-families","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/littleleaguewashd9.org\/?page_id=5846","title":{"rendered":"Letter to D9 Leagues and Families"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To: All District 9 Leagues and Families<\/h2>\n

This has been both an exciting and a difficult tournament season in District 9.<\/p>\n

Many of you may have noticed that we starting reading Little League\u2019s pledge on Sportsmanship<\/a> before every tournament game. We also made the decision to restrict electronic streaming devices at our tournaments<\/a>. We have had a lot of individual conversations with people over the last few weeks but it\u2019s important we talk about it to the whole district.<\/p>\n

Little League is committed to ensuring every player, coach, parent, and volunteer feels welcome and included.<\/a><\/p>\n

District 9 is committed to Little League\u2019s goal to prioritize inclusion as an intentional part of our culture. We believe that we can only achieve this when we respect individual differences and perspectives. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we did not live up to these goals this year. There were several instances across our district where members of our community were targeted by racist language, profanity, and other inappropriate behavior.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to understand that this not only hurt the people targeted but also all the members of our community that witnessed these events. Let\u2019s be more clear. This hurt kids and it hurt adults. Now we have players that don\u2019t feel like Little League is a safe place for them which means we failed these kids this year. <\/p>\n

This is not what Little League is about. This is not what District 9 is about.<\/p>\n

Looking forward, we cannot tolerate this in our district. We will be taking a hard look at what happened and how it was allowed to happen. We are going to work with the leagues and get procedures in place to make sure we don\u2019t let these kinds of behaviors happen at the local and district levels. We will make District 9 a safe place for everyone.<\/p>\n

Bob Toigo, District Administrator
\nJanice Christensen, Assistant District Administrator
\nRob Little, Umpire-In-Chief
\nSharon Curry, ADA
\nTonya Henry, ADA
\nChris Martin, AUIC
\nRuss Paul-Jones, AUIC\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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