Who We Are
Culpeper Community Baseball, Inc. is a relatively new organization formed just over years ago, in March 2022. Culpeper Community Baseball, Inc. operates a summer collegiate baseball team, the Culpeper Cavaliers, that plays in the Valley Baseball League, a non-profit league with roots back to 1897. Our team has played two summer seasons, 2023 and 2024. Below are our mission and vision statements:
Mission: Culpeper Community Baseball, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that operates a Valley Baseball League franchise known as the Culpeper Cavaliers. Culpeper Community Baseball, Inc’s commitment to the community of Culpeper, Virginia and the surrounding areas is to foster and promote youth baseball and softball, civic responsibility, charitable outreach, good sportsmanship, and responsible leadership.
Vision: Culpeper Community Baseball, Inc. strives to provide an elite Culpeper Cavaliers collegiate summer baseball team that gives fans a fun filled, family-oriented, memorable experience and is a model program in terms of helping youth and the community in general.
What We Do
A big focus of Culpeper Community Baseball, Inc. is childhood wellness and youth development, the fostering and promoting youth baseball and softball part of our mission and the helping youth part of our vision. Each summer, when the team’s college baseball players are in Culpeper for the summer baseball season, which consists of 42 games plus possible playoff games in June and July, the players, who come from colleges across the country, volunteer their time and conduct skills clinics/camps for the area’s youth ball players. In addition to our own skills clinics/camps, our players and coaches also volunteer their time and do clinics/camps other organizations in the area are conducting, including the PATH Recreation Center, Culpeper Human Services Kid Central’s Summer Day Camp, and the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office Camp. The youth ball players that attend these camps are little league and travel ball players from Culpeper, Fauquier, Rappahannock, and other surrounding areas. Our players and coaches will again volunteer their time at all of these skills clinics/camps in the summer of 2025. The following is a list of the skills clinics/camps conducted:
• In June and July of 2023 and 2024, we did our own skills clinics/camps at our home field at Culpeper County High School. These clinics/camps will happen again in 2025 – they have already been scheduled for June 9th and 10th and July 14th and 15th.
• In June of 2023 and 2024, our players and coaches volunteered their time to conduct a weeklong camp at the PATH Recreation Center in Culpeper. This is part of the PATH Recreation Center’s Summer Camps & Clinics for Kids. Our players and coaches will again volunteer this coming summer – it has already been scheduled for the week of June 23rd.
• In July of 2023 and 2024, our players and coaches volunteered their time to teach baseball skills during sports camp week at Culpeper Human Services Kid Central’s Summer Day Camp. Most of the children enrolled in Kid Central’s Summer Camp come from underserved communities within Culpeper County. Our players and coaches will again volunteer this coming July.
• In July 2024, our players and coaches volunteered their time to teach baseball skills at the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office three-day summer baseball camp. Our players and coaches will again volunteer this coming summer – it has already been scheduled for July 7th, 8th, and 9th.
Our players and coaches enjoy doing these clinics/camps even though they have what can be a grueling game schedule, playing 5 to 6 games a week, mostly at night, and sometimes having to travel 2 to 3 hours back to Culpeper after away games.
In addition to skills clinics/camps, our home games at Culpeper County High School’s baseball field also provide an opportunity for youth development. We get youth involved in many activities such as performing the national anthem, throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, being the batboy or batgirl, chasing foul balls, participating in entertainment between innings (mascot races, singing YMCA and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, etc.), and more. This coming season, we plan to have youth do one inning of the PA announcing at each of our 21 homes games.
