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The objective of Coconut Creek Little League is to implant firmly in the children of the Community the ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for authority so that they may be well adjusted, strong and happier children. The Coconut Creek Baseball Club was founded in
1996 and played it's Inaugural season in 1997. The
original baseball Competitive Player Pitch Divisions were added in 1998 and Coach Pitch and T-ball Divisions would switch to non-competitive formats which would be an attractive draw for the league bringing in many new players. By 1999 the league would more than double in size to 40 teams. The League would also receive a probationary charter from Little League Baseball inc., in 1999 and celebrated it's fifth anniversary as a member of that organization in 2004. The league would also publish it's first yearbook that year. The 2000 season brought Major League replica uniforms to the Creek baseball program for the first time and official recognition as a Little League Member of Florida's District 10. The League also had a brand new place to play as Coconut Creek opened Lakeside Park in 2000 and the burgeoning league quickly filled the city's available fields. The year 2000 also brought Coconut Creek Little League to the world wide web as www.ccllb.com, the predecessor to the site you are now on, went live to the world. The Little league Board of Directors also surged to 20 members and their efforts were instrumental to the growth and success of the league. The league also suffered tragedy this year as Umpire Chief Paul Mosher was tragically killed in a automobile accident in the summer of 2000.
The league continued it's expansion in 2002 as the league grew to 63 teams. The Women's auxiliary had one of its strongest year ever under the leadership of Destineylee Poole and Linda Sanders- Klarman our team mom meetings become events and the league came closer together with our Spaghetti Dinner, Flea market, Jamboree and Our 1st Annual Golf Outing.
The League was back to full operational capacity in 2007, unfortunately enrollment numbers did rebound to pre-hurricane levels. A multitude of demographic factors, the housing slump and a decline in youth baseball participation in general caused attendance to decline again in 2007 and in 2008. Despite the drop in numbers The 2008 season marked our most successful District All-Star Tournament season ever, with second place finishes for both our Junior & Major teams and a third place finish for our Minor All-star team. Despite those successes the League was disappointed as enrollment again dropped slightly in 2009, marking four straight years of declining enrollment. The league went back to some old successful formula's to try to make Coconut Creek Little League a must do activity. We moved our Opening Day Jamboree back to Saturday and played a full slate of games, Billy The Marlin showed up to crank up the fun, we highlighted our softball program at Sabal Pines park and brought some coach pitch teams over to Sabal Pines as well to generate excitement and played host to their second Florida State tournament. While the effects of this effort will not be fully known to the 2010 season, the league feels confident it has generated a buzz around Coconut Creek Little League and that their effort will be rewarded with future growth.
In the 2010 season this will be the first year
that CCLL will not be offering Girl's Fast Pitch Softball. The
softball program became their own entity and is now run by past
volunteers from the CCLL under the guidelines of USSSA.
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Club had only 10 T-ball and 6 Coach pitch teams
and had no player pitch divisions and played all their games at Cocoplum (George Gerber) Park and Hosford Park. Founding Board
members included President Randy Johnson, Albert Muniz, Jim Henry,
Bob Webster, Wes Schaffer, Scott Sundermeier, David Anderson,
Clark McCall, Allan & Bernadette Hathaway, Andrea Koss & Carolyn
Beamer. 
The League continued to expand in 2003 & 2004 as the league grew
to 69 teams and 840 children as we added a Coach Pitch Girls
Softball Division. The 2005 season was a marked by dramatic
change as we welcomed 7 new Board members and said goodbye to some
long time members who had been instrumental to the development of
the League. The League grew rapidly as well in 2005 surging to
950 players and 74 teams as the league added a Minor Girls Softball
Division and split our Coach Pitch Division into two separate
divisions to better prepare our older players for competitive
baseball. 'Billy' the Marlin Stopped by to kick of our
Jamboree and we finally got to see a team other than the Atlanta
Braves as Our Hometown Florida Marlins played host to the newly
minted Washington Nationals in our 7th annual league trip the
Marlin's Youth Baseball day. 
2006
marked the League's 10th Anniversary, but the year's events would
hardly be cause for celebration as Coconut Creek Little League faced
it's most challenging season ever. Tragedy struck the League
again as board member, friend and dedicated volunteer Tom Greco was
killed in a tragic motorcycle accident in October 2005.
Shortly thereafter Hurricane Wilma ripped through Coconut Creek and
caused major devastation, rendering 6 of the Leagues 10 fields
unplayable for the 2006 season. The season start date needed
to be pushed back to March. The Opening day Jamboree had to be
cancelled. Our Junior & Senior Players did not have a home field and
played all of their games in Deerfield, Parkland & Coral Springs.
Player enrollment declined for the first time in the League's
history and because of these delays the regular Baseball & Girl's
Softball seasons, for the first time, ended after the school year.
Despite these setbacks the 2006 Board should truly be commended for
there work in even being able to have a season under these trying
circumstances. Things were not all bad, we ended the season
with a bang as we had an exciting Playoffs, one of our most successful
All-Star tournament season ever with three top 3 finishes including
our Major All-Stars competing in the District 10 Championship game
and we hosted for the first time ever a Florida State Tournament. 