FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW FOR DIRECTIONS TO TOURNAMENT LOCATIONS! PLEASE DO NOT ASK COACHES FOR DIRECTIONS.

Perhaps the most nagging aspect of running a travel team is providing directions to team parents, friends and family members. The time and effort involved in managing the team, running practices, coaching tournament games, making group travel plans and collecting funds is extensive. Getting directions is the responsibility of players/parents/friends/family:

1.  Most tournaments now have web sites. If you Google the host team's name or the tournament name, you can almost always find a link to the team's web site. Every tournament web site will have directions located on their web site.

2.    If you cannot find the tournament web site, the vast majority of tournament and non-tournament games are played at high school, middle school and/or college sites. When you receive the schedule for each tournament, it will include the names of the school sites at which the tournament games will be played.

3.    Google Maps makes finding colleges, high schools and middle schools very easy. Go to Google Maps and enter the school name (with town/city in which it is located). The address of the school will be displayed along with a map of the surrounding area. You can then get directions from Google Maps or use the address to get directions through one of the mapping services listed in #4 below.

4.    Once you have college, high school and/or middle school addresses, there are a number of mapping/directions sites on the Web that you can use for directions. You can stay on the Google site and click "Get directions";  OR, you can enter the school address at another mapping service web site. Other reliable mapping services are: Yahoo Maps,  Rand-McNally  and  Maps On Us. Rand-McNally has proven the most reliable and accurate over time. ALL MAPPING SERVICE WEB SITES ARE FREE OF CHARGE.

5.    In the case of college game sites, it is also a good idea to check out the college's web site. They often have narrative directions and college maps that can assist you in getting directly to the game site. College web sites are very easy to find. Entering the college name in a search engine will almost certainly lead you to the college's main site. Almost all colleges have an ".edu" extension and you can often find the college web site by simply entering the college name with ".edu" in your browser's web address line at the top of your browser (for example, "www.hartwick.edu" or "www.maryland.edu").


6.    Directions to and from motels/hotels can be similarly mapped. Most motels/hotels have web sites that can be found using a search engine. Those web sites often have narrative directions to their locations.

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