Gilbert Youth Sports

★samantha nazzaro

We have previously had a good experience with this league last year. However ALL that changed with this fall registration. Ive been trying for a week to speak with a manager or supervisor AFTER an employee told me one would reach out to me. A week went by with no response from them. I have tried to contact someone multiple times only to be told to text the line. Well I have texted that line multiple times and the most recent interaction with an employee they told me they have no direct way to get in touch with a manger. So if you're own employee cannot get in contact with a manager what hope does we parents have to get our issues resolved? Join literally any other league with actual physical people present to help parents.

★Elizabeth Jones

Honestly select any other league than this one. I have signed up my children for 4 years off and on and I’ve finally hit my max for disappoint with this league. The lack of organization alone is absolutely terrible. This past spring baseball and soccer season, both my children’s games were changed locations to schools more than 30 mins away ( while annoying, is fine) but the quality of the fields upon arrival are dangerous. Thick, tall clover patches and weeds up to the children’s knees is dangerous. In addition, we had several 8am games (first game of the day) where the fields were not set up and the staff responsible for set up didn’t arrive until well after 8am. Lastly, to not have medal available for 3&4 year olds is terrible. Yes, they are participation medals but for young children that is extremely disheartening. I’ve coached numerous season and sports for this league, I’ve also just been the parent of the players. Each season, fall, winter, spring, the disappointment continues. I’m finally done. I recommend you be too!

★★★★★Tausagafou Ili

My son just finished up his first basketball season ever. He, (and we, his parents), thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. The location of both practice and games were fairly close to our residence, whereas, in prior football leagues we had to travel at least an hour each way. Coach Josh was amazing! Most of the boys on our team had never played basketball but by the end of the season they made it to playoffs and the boys played with confidence and were great sports! Because he has grown to LOVE basketball from this experience, my son now wishes to continue playing basketball with the hopes of trying out for his jr high basketball team. Gilbert Youth sports is also very affordable! I would recommend this league to anyone!

★Helena

First year I put my children in this league seemed to go okay. This year it felt like a completely different league. The amount of time our games were rescheduled was quite silly. The schools they would reschedule at would be more than 30 minutes away from our house. The officiating seemed to go down as well. Our games were hardly on time due to either the ref being late to the game or just every game ran behind. I hope they can get better

★★Kylie Pond

I don’t enjoy leaving less than favorable reviews, but I know I would’ve appreciated knowing this before signing up. My two boys played summer baseball. First, we signed up with Mesa Youth Sports, but at the last minute, our selected location became unavailable. We were told we could get a refund or join one of the other organizations under this league (Chandler, Gilbert, or East Mesa). By this point my boys were excited for their first foray into organized sports, so I couldn’t just get my money back. Rather than go into all the details, I will say that there were a number of miscommunications (some were not the league’s fault) or lack of communication to the coaches, the league was not well-organized, games consistently ran over causing the next team to be delayed in starting their games (older teams should not be playing before young teams on the same field—our very last game started a full 20 minutes late), the season was shorter than originally understood with two games per week (making it up to four games for us with two kids on two different teams), there was a shortage of coaches, and the games were so spread out in distance, with traveling every other game instead of “most games” being at our “home” location as promised. The best part was that my boys had fun and learned a little about teamwork and baseball. We realized a lot of the experience depends on the coaches too, some of whom are more involved than others (we had no problems with our coaches, they were just busy parents like the rest of us). We went with this league because they were less expensive, but in the end, you kind of get what you pay for. I have friends whose kids have played with this league or a sister league in the past, so perhaps my experience is isolated to the summer season.