UBC Baseball Announces Expanded Youth Performance Teams and Programs

The UBC Baseball program has been rapidly growing since the opening of the Rose Indoor Training Centre (September 2015) and now the scheduled construction of a new baseball stadium (opening Spring 2018).  We are excited to announce a series of additions to our youth and community programs that will be based out of the UBC Baseball facilities. 

We will continue to expand the varsity brand through access to our facilities while having our coaches and players serve as coaches and instructors.  This will help grow the sport of baseball throughout Vancouver, BC and Canada.

Our newly established UBC Thunder BCPBL organization that started play this season allows Vancouver based players another option to play baseball in Vancouver through the ages of 13-18.  It was an incredible first year for our Junior team as they finished 2nd at the BCPBL Championships while also winning the North Shore Twins Can-Am Tournament.  This success has allowed us to now expand our BCPBL organization to include a Bantam and Senior team for the 2018 season. As part of UBC’s Youth Performance programs, the UBC Thunder teams are focused on player development which will allow our graduating players the best possible college/university option available to them.  They are not an official feeder program to our UBC varsity team.  Our varsity program will continue to recruit the very best student-athlete baseball players from across Canada including the entire BCPBL league.

TEAMS                                                                                                          Established

UBC Varsity Teams

UBC Thunderbirds Varsity Team (18-23 years old)                                       September 1997

Junior Varsity Team (18-23 years old)                                                           September 2018

UBC Thunder Teams

Senior PBL Thunder (16-18 years old)                                                           February 2018

Junior PBL Thunder (15-17 years old)                                                           February 2017

Bantam PBL Thunder (13-14 years old)                                                         February 2018