Player registration is now open for the 5th annual Carroll SuperDraft Softball Tournament, and organizers say they have plenty of slots open for both new and returning players. The tournament began in 2021 to raise money for patients receiving treatment at the St. Anthony Regional Cancer Center. The tournament operates very differently from most slow-pitch tournaments. Instead of whole teams registering, individual players sign up and are drafted by pre-assigned captains. Katie Decker, one of the SuperDraft’s organizers, says signing up is easy.
The cost is $40 per player, and that includes tournament entry and a jersey. The draft is tentatively scheduled for the first week of June, so slots will be available until May 31. Decker says they are hoping for enough players to field eight teams, or 100 or so players. The 2025 SuperDraft has been pushed back later in the summer to July 26 so as not to conflict with graduation season, spring activities, and other slow-pitch softball tournaments in the Midwest. Decker says they are repeatedly astonished by the support for the SuperDraft, year after year.
In its first four years, the SuperDraft has raised over $40,000 for local cancer patients, and Decker says that money is used to make the challenge of undergoing treatment a little easier to bear.
Decker says SuperDraft spots are first-come, first-served, so players wanting to join in on the fun should do so as soon as possible. Contact details about registration are also included below.
