Dear CFA Families,

We hope you are all in good health. Thank you for your continued patience as we continue to follow the recommendations of our local, state, and government leaders regarding social distancing.

There are major restrictions due to COVID by our City and State that are preventing us from any scrimmage or game activity. We are currently limited to running skills training camps in small groups, where the groups must remain together through the duration of the camp. As a result, we are postponing our Fall season to begin January/February 2021. We are working on getting the registration up and running. No fees will be collected yet until we are certain we can run our season, but parents will be allowed to pre-register. Please check our website again for any updates on registration for the season, as well as any skills training and competition events we will hold prior to December.

We will not be responding to e-mails regarding refunds at this time. We have sent out several e-mails and have explained why we have a policy in place that addresses refunds, especially during times like this. (see link below)

E-Mail to Spring 2020 Registered Players regarding future credit.docx

We are only issuing credits to all our Spring 2020 players towards any future CFA flag football season or football related events. The credit will allow you to use it for any one season or towards other CFA paid events. The credit is also transferable.

The pandemic we are facing has affected everyone, including our young youth organization. As with all seasonal youth sports programs, the preparation for the season begins many months in advance, in addition to many expenses to keep the program going season after season, such as advertising, business related operating expenses (insurance, administration costs, equipment, etc) and other expenses that people do not consider as part of running a non-profit organization. For our Oakley league, all the custom uniform shirts had been ordered and paid for. Shorts for all 3 leagues also purchased. All of which were non-refundable. These are all expenses we cannot recoup.

Therefore, we are asking our CFA families to please be patient at this time until we can get back to normal and start playing games again. Please help us keep our flag football program alive. With your patience and understanding, we will overcome this and get back to playing sports.

We are hoping to hear back from the school districts regarding availibility of fields for our Concord and San Ramon Leagues. They are currently not taking any field reservation through 2020. Please check back for any update.

Thank you for your continued support and kindness as we get through this together.

Sincerely,

Your California Football Academy Board and Staff