Pemberton Park

The field that the City of Victoria has designated for the softball program at Pemberton Park is not a regulation facility. The irregular cutouts around second base, along with the oversized cutouts at first and third, were installed to accommodate varying base-path lengths for different age groups. This design is highly unconventional and, to our knowledge, would be extremely difficult—if not impossible—to find anywhere else in the country.

In contrast, the City provides regulation fields for boys’ baseball programs. This creates a clear inequity: while male athletes are afforded proper facilities that meet national standards, female athletes are expected to compete on a field that is substandard and unsuitable for regulation play.

Despite these deficiencies, the City of Victoria has deemed this field “acceptable” for young women to use.

For comparison, the images below show 12 of the 14 South Vancouver Island Fastball (SVI) fields currently in use. Beacon Hill is the only association that does not provide a regulation softball field.