About Us

The Victoria Mariners Baseball Club is a high performance development baseball program for top level athletes ages 14 to 18. Our goal is to provide our athletes with opportunities that enable them to advance successfully to the next level of baseball.

We are part of the Lower Vancouver Island Baseball Association (LVIBA) which operates the following teams:

• The Victoria Mariners Premier Baseball Club
• The Victoria Mariners Junior Premier Baseball Club
• The Victoria Mariners Bantam Baseball Club

We are a not-for-profit society, operating our three teams in the following leagues:

• BC Premier Baseball League, one of the acknowledged top developmental high school leagues in North America, consistently graduating a number of successful MLB and college level players every season including Justin Morneau, Jeff Francis, Rich Harden, Vince Perkins, Mike Saunders and Kyle Orr to name only a few. BC Premier alumni are noted on the www.bcpbl.com website. The level of play, talent and coaching expertise is on a par with the level most Canadians would recognize at the BC Junior Hockey league. The BCPBL rosters players age 15-18.
• BC Junior Premier Baseball League, a developmental league for the younger up and coming talents. The BCJPBL rosters players age 14 to 16.
• BC Bantam Premier Baseball (Prep) League, a developmental league in the BCPBL for 13-14 year olds. This league will prepare athletes for the Junior Premier and Premier levels, as athletes will experience the same level of coaching expertise, skill development, and competitive play that they will at the two higher levels. A true High Performance league at the Bantam level!

Players are selected to respective teams from across Lower Vancouver Island and placed on the Mariner team best suited for their developmental needs.

Coaches are recruited and developed with a primary goal of player development. We consider winning championships only an eventual by-product of successful development activities. We demand more from our coaches than simply baseball knowledge and experience. Mentorship abilities are crucial in our selection process.

We are a not for profit society.  Our organization's executive members, association coordinators, and team coordinators are all volunteers, comprised of parents of former players, coaches and current parents.
Board of Directors

Henderson Park in Oak Bay has been our home for the Junior Premier, where we share the facility with Carnarvon Midget House league.  As well, the Premier team and Bantam team play out of Layritz Park in Saanich. During the Winter months, the Mariners workout at the Island Training Centre Indoor Sports Facility and the Edwards Family Training Center. The need for more time at both indoor and outdoor facilities continues to be a challenge for the amount of training needed by Victoria’s top level athletes.

The Mariners organization has evolved over the years, winning a Provincial Championships in both leagues – Premier and Junior Premier. The Mariners have also hosted Premier Championship Tournaments and look forward to hosting more in the future. The Mariners graduate more and more players to both the MLB ranks and US & Canadian Colleges each year. We have also seen former players return to develop and contribute as coaches. If anything is true in the local baseball scene, it is that change is most certainly a constant. Backed by it’s core principles around player and coach development, whatever changes come our way, Victoria Mariners will do its best to adapt while respecting those principles.