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2025 19th Annual Original TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (2024 Roster Event)

Polk County, FL • Jan. 22 - Jan. 26, 2025

Director: Senior Softball-USA, 916-326-5303, E-mail

Winners receive free rings

Entry Fee: $625

Deadline: Entry fee payment and completed invoice (PDF) must be received by: Jan. 1, 2025

Send payments to:
SSWC - 19th Annual Original Tournament Of Champions (2024 Roster Event)
9823 Old Winery Place, Suite 12
Sacramento, CA 95827

Note: Senior Softball-USA charges a 4% convenience fee for all payments other than cash or check.

Important reminder: The US Postal Service is experiencing delays in their deliveries, so please let us know if you intend to play in this tournament. Team lists for tournament are published on the tournament pages at the entry deadline. If your team is not listed, please call immediately. Teams are not officially entered until payment is received.

Refund policy: Entry Fees are non-refundable after the deadline. Full refunds are given to teams withdrawing BEFORE the deadline. NO refunds are given after the deadline.

Tournament Format

Note: SSWC reserves the right to combine divisions of three or fewer teams within one age level and/or skill level.

Five games minimum initially scheduled (not "guaranteed"), with Round Robin into Double Elimination or Three-Game-Guarantee brackets or other acceptable tourney formats.

Special Events

Hitting Clinic
Wednesday, January 22, 10am - Noon at DiamondPlex Softball Complex.
This clinic will give players a chance to warm up and to sharpen their skills before the tournament with some of the best hitters in the sport. Only open to players on TOC participating teams.
To register, players must email this form to Stephanie at stephanie@seniorsoftball.com.

TOC All-Star Game
Wednesday, January 22, 6pm at DiamondPlex Softball Complex.
Each TOC-competing team will select one player to compete in the game. Two TOC managers will be selected for the All-Star teams. 
Managers, do not forget to list your player on the main registration form or send player choice to Stephanie at stephanie@seniorsoftball.com.

Skills Contests
Thursday, January 23, 9am-11am at DiamondPlex Softball Complex.
Contests in five divisions (40/50, 55/60, 65/70, 75/85, Women) including: Precision Hitting, Home Run, Speed, and Pitching. Awards range from bats, shoes, or gloves.
To register, players must email this form to Stephanie at stephanie@seniorsoftball.com by January 10, 2025. Players who do not pre-register before Jan. 10, can register at the field on a space-available basis.

Optional Team Practice
Thursday, January 23, between Noon and 3pm.
Team Managers choose a complex in order of preference.  SSUSA will schedule the practices and notify managers of their practice time and location. Time and complex preference to be submitted with team registration form.

Welcome Reception (Open to Participating teams, players and families)
Thursday, January 23, 7pm at Nora Mayo Hall (500 3rd Street NW, Winter Haven).
There will be a free reception for participating TOC players, their friends and family during which each team will be recognized.

Sponsors:


Qualified Teams List (2023 Winter Nationals/Worlds to 2024 World Championships). Updated 10/1/24.

 

19th ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS:
Polk County Is ‘The County of Choice’

POLK COUNTY, FL. • The Crown Jewel of Senior Softball enters its 19th year here in 2025, pitting the best of the best on the softball diamonds.

There simply is no other tournament in the sport that comes close to the SSUSA Original Tournament of Champions: FREE QUALITY rings for winners, prizes for MVPs, a welcome reception for players and their families – and that does not even include the hitting clinics, skills contests and the All-Star Game!

This year’s tournament will be held January 22-26, and only winners of qualifying tournaments are invited. In short, it’s the tournament for champions, only. Second-place teams stay home. This is the original Tournament of Champions and it’s only for those teams that have been previously crowned king of the hill at a Senior Softball USA sanctioned tournament during the 2024 season.

“The TOC here offers the most elite event in the sport to celebrate winners of the top tournaments in the country,” said Terry Hennessy, chief executive officer of SSUSA. “No one offers a tournament that even comes close.”

“It’s a battle of tournament champions taking on tournament champions to determine which team is truly the top team of the year,” he said. “There’s really nothing like it and that’s why teams go all out to come back each year.”

The Tournament of Champions handsomely rewards its winners who received free championship rings and each player earns a TOC certificate. In addition, the most valuable players in each division win a prize, which in years past has included bats, bat bags, and more.

 



Playing Facilities

Auburndale Sports Complex
99 Florida Citrus Blvd.
Jan Phyl Village, FL 33880
Diamondplex Softball Complex
85 PSC Access Road
Winter Haven, FL 33881
Loyce Harpe Sports Complex
500 W. Carter Rd.
Mulberry, FL 33860
Walker Road Softball Complex
1035 Walker Road
Lakeland, FL 33810


Hotel Information:


Holiday Inn - Winter Haven

200 Cypress Gardens Blvd
Winter Haven, FL 33880
877 666 3243

Book by December 23.
Click here to book online.
Rates: 
(Subject local/state taxes and fees)
1/17 - 1/27: $139/night (2 Queens or 1 King)

 


Hampton Inn - Winter Haven
202 Cypress Gardens Blvd
Winter Haven, FL 33880
863-299-9251

Book by December 23.
Click here to book online.
Rates: 
(Subject to local/state taxes and fees)
1/17 - 1/27: $139/night (2 Queens or 1 King)

 


Days Inn & Suties - Lakeland
4502 N. Socrum Loop Rd
Lakeland, FL. 33809
(863) 797-4606

Book by November 15.
Rates: 
(Subject to local/state taxes and fees)
1/21 - 1/26: $145/night (2 Queens)
1/21 - 1/26: $155/night (1 King)
1/21 - 1/26: $155/night (1 King and 1 Queen)

 


Staybridge Suites - Winter Haven/Auburndale
305 5th Street NW,
Winter Haven, FL. 33881
863-229-5145
Group Code: SSU
Group Name: Senior Softball USA Tournament 2025

Book by December 20.
Click here to book online.
Rates: 
(Subject to local/state taxes and fees)
1/22 - 1/26: $179/night (1 King w/sleeper sofa and full kitchen)
1/22 - 1/26: $189/night (2 Queens w/sleeper sofa and full kitchen)

Dates of Play

Men's 40
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 50
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 55
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 60
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 65
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 70
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 75
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 80
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Men's 85
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Women's 40
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Women's 50
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025
Women's 55
Friday, Jan. 24 - Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025

Manager Meeting

(Managers Only)
Thursday, Nov. 23 - 5pm at Nora Mayo Hall - Florida Room (500 3rd Street NW, Winter Haven). 

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