Frequently Asked Questions

Web site accounts will be setup for organization coordinators once the league has received all information regarding your organization. Coordinators will receive an email from the league with information regarding their accounts. Organization coordinators will have access to a one page portal that gives them the ability to communicate with the league, other organizations, and their coaches. The portal also allows coordinators to setup their gym availability as well as maintain a schedule for gyms that they manage if they would like.

A registration link will be made available to anyone that wants to create an account by Monday, August 17th for the fall leagues.

No, you do not. All team, schedule, standings, and gym direction information is all readily available from our main menu to any member of the public. However, if you would like to receive notifications about game schedule changes, tournament game results, weekly schedule reminders, and league or team announcements, please setup an account and subscribe to a team(s) to receive this type of information. You will also have access to a one page portal which will contain all of the information you might be interested regarding the team(s) you have subscribed to including schedule, standings, team stats, and roster information.

School/parish coordinators will register teams on the web site. Once the league has approved these teams, a web site account will be setup for each coach automatically based on the information provided by your coordinator (based on name and email address). You will receive an automated email from the web site notifying you of this. You may change your user name and/or password when you login to the web site for the first time.

There are several links on your portal that will allow you to perform multiple types of gym closures. You will be able to postpone all games scheduled for a specific day for a gym that you manage. You will also be able to postpone specific games for instance if you need to cancel morning games but feel you can have your facility open later in the day. Please note that when you close a facility, notifications are sent to all subscribers of teams that were scheduled top play in your facility that day.

Each member organization is responsible for communicating to the league when a gym has been closed. Gym closures that do not affect league game play do not have to be communicated to the league. When a gym has been closed that postpones scheduled league games, the following will occur: 1) a text message or email will be sent to all web site account holders that have subscribed to teams affected by the gym closure; 2) a message will be displayed on the front page of the web site listing all gyms that are currently closed; 3) a league announcement will be posted to the web site, tweeted to our Twitter account, and sent to all web site account holders that have subscribed to league announcements if all games for a specific day have been postponed. We've got you covered!

Yes. The following is taken from the League Structure document: "If a team does not show up to play or is unable to meet the requirements specified by GCCYS and/or the Archdiocese, the team will forfeit and be subject to a $50 fee. If a request to postpone or reschedule is provided less than 10 days in advance, a $50 fee is applied even if the game is rescheduled." If you know a game can't be played, please have your coordinator contact the league as soon as possible to postpone the game.

All changes to the schedule are made in real time on our web site. However, if you would like to be notified of games that are postponed, rescheduled, or canceled, setup a web site account and subscribe to a team(s) and to the notifications you would like to receive.

Not necessarily. The league will do the best it can to reschedule games that were postponed due to inclement weather. This decision will need to be made in conjunction with member organizations as the ability to reschedule games is largely dependent on the availability of gym time to play these games. Games will initially be marked as postponed on the schedule and will either be moved to a rescheduled status or a canceled status.

Please contact your coordinator if you either do not have enough players to field a team or none of the coaches can attend the game. The league will only entertain these types of requests in extreme circumstances. All teams were given the opportunity to communicate schedule conflicts before the season schedule was completed.

The GCCYS does not accept registrations from individual players or from teams, but instead works with local parishes/schools that are league members. If you are new to the area or do not know what organization is available in your area, feel free to contact us and we will try to put you in touch with the appropriate organization that may or may not enter teams in our league.

Organizations must either by affiliated with a parish or a school that is part of the Archdiocese of Greater Cincinnati.

The GCCYS currently allows 3rd-8th grades to play in the league.

The GCCYS provides a recreational league experience for all sports offered. For our fall leagues, all 3rd grade through 5th grade teams are balanced teams while the 6th through 8th grade teams are assigned to a playing level within that grade based on the feedback of the coordinator, coach, and previous year's results.

Yes. At this time, all age groups will report game scores.

The coach of the winning team should report their game score within 48 hours of the completion of the game. After 48 hours, we would welcome the coach of the losing team to report the game score if they'd like.

Each coach will be given access to a team portal which will allow them to conduct league business and manage their team. A team schedule will be available on the portal with a link next to games that a coach can click on to report their score. Optionally, a coach can subscribe to a special notification that will email them a link to report their score a few hours after the scheduled game time.

All levels of basketball will play on a 10 ft rim.

The breakdown for girls volleyball is as follows:

• 3rd-4th (6 ft) 
• 5th (6 ft 6 in) 
• 6th (7 ft) 
• 7th-8th (7 ft 4 1/8 in).

Games can be played at any time the host parish/school has available gym time. That being said, most games are scheduled on Friday evening, any time on Saturday, or 1:00 or later on Sunday. In some cases, games will be playing during the week but only if available gym time is not available on Fri-Sun.

All teams will play in a season ending tournament that will be single elimination format. Teams may be grouped in divisions for the tournament that look slightly different than the divisions they played in during the regular season in order to make the tournament more competitive.

At this time, all teams in the GCCYS will play 10 regular season games, usually one per weekend. However, some leagues take place over the course of 8 or 9 weeks. In those cases, teams will play multiple games during one or more weeks. All teams are eligible to play in the league-sponsored post-season tournament.