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American Youth Football About AYF American Youth Football; Coach's Corner The Huddle - Our Monthly e-newsletter Age & Weight Classifications Rules
About AYF 1) Local Membership Structure: AYF Local Membership Structure stays true to the AYF objective of remaining non-intrusive and supporting all football and cheer teams regardless of their competitive intentions. Organizations that DO NOT plan to participate in AYF inter-league tournament competitions have the freedom to participate as a member of AYF, Local Membership Structure leagues are free to play in accordance with your own locally adopted and current governing rules, in so long as your rules subscribe to the following governing principles.: 1. Safety, Local Membership Structure leagues can retain independence in creating a structure that fits their group specifically. 2) Tournament Membership Structure: AYF Tournament
Membership Structure pertains to those leagues that plan to participate
in AYF Regional and National Championships Tournaments and other pre or
post-season games/tournaments. These leagues must strictly abide by AYF
Rules and Regulations as outlined in the Official AYF Rule Book. This
rulebook must be followed at all times, this includes but is not limited to
Pre-Season, In-Season, and Post-Season play (Year Round).
Tournament Membership Structure: Definitions A) Region:A Region is defined as a geographic territory. The geographic territory is determined by the AYF National Office. The 8 regional territories that make up AYF can be found online at www.americanyouthfootball.com . A Region is comprised of Member Conferences within its territory that have applied for, and have been granted membership, by the National Office. B) Conference:A Conference is defined by the geographic boundary of its membership. The geographic boundary is protected by receiving a Charter. A Conference’s membership is the Associations that have applied for, and have been granted membership, by the Conferences governing body. In keeping with the American Youth Football’s Goals and Philosophies no application for membership should be unreasonably withheld. C) Association:An Association is often defined as a local city, or town. The Association may be restricted by its Conference from drawing participants from certain geographic territory/boundaries. The acceptable method and determination of what participants can register within any given Association will be governed by the Conference/Region to which it is a member. The movement of a participant from one member Association to another must be strictly governed and enforced by the Conference/Region to which it is a member. An Associations membership is the Participants that have applied for, and have been granted membership, by the Associations governing body. In keeping with the American Youth Football’s Goals and Philosophies no application for membership should be unreasonably withheld and under no circumstances will a participant be discriminated against. D) Participant:A Participant is defined as a minor child that has applied for and has been granted membership within a given Association. E) Division:A division is defined as a grouping of Teams in specific Age and Weight Class or Age only Class. AYF now offers the following divisions: National, United and All American. These Divisions are further defined under the heading of “Divisions” in this rulebook. F) Team:A Team is defined as a grouping within a age and weight class such as: Junior PeeWee, PeeWee, Junior Midget,
Are You Ready for Football, by Bob Lawrence
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Weights Local Membership Structure Millions of kids play tackle football, many more want to play but are restricted from doing so due to weight restrictions imposed by some national organizations. American Youth Football is a non-intrusive organization that lets local administrators decide what is best for their local league. This means that you, the local organization are empowered to decide what is best for your community. Tournament Membership Structure For those organizations who do aspire to participate and compete in regional and national championship tournaments, AYF does have an inter-league play established weight matrix, which can be found below. (The following Age / Weight structure applies only to leagues that plan to compete in the AYF Regional and National Championship tournament. As always and consistent with AYF's mandate to be non-intrusive, if you joined AYF as a Local Membership Structure and do not plan on competing in AYF regional and national championship tournament, your leagues established age / weights will continue to govern your play.) The Age / Weight for both Regional and National Tournaments will be as follows for the various divisions of play. Reminder – IF YOU DO NOT MAKE THE WEIGHT YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.
AYF recognizes and It is important to remember that a minute percentage of AYF's total membership will advance to the AYF National Championships but there are millions of kids that play youth football annually, we are committed to ensure a rewarding experience for everyone involved, and ensuring that everyone regardless of weight has an opportunity to play. At AYF we remember "it's for the kids." For information on the safety of Open Weight football, visit the safety section of our website
Rules American Youth Football recommends and follows, for regional and national tournament play, NFHS rules, for both football and spirit. NFHS rules are the standard in high school sports rules and regulations; by adopting and playing in accordance with these rules you are providing for a smoother transition for youth participants should they choose to compete at a higher level. Rule Books and Operations manuals can be found on the MyAYF control panel at www.myayf.com. This site is available to members only, use the password and username you were emailed upon joining. If your league or conference is a chartered member of AYF and you are a coach or league administrator and don't have a username and password, ask your league administrator to add you to the league account.
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