USA Softball hosts training camp for junior men's pitchers and catchers

January 25, 2013

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January 25, 2013

 

USA Softball hosts training camp for junior men’s pitchers and catchers

 

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sixteen athletes in the USA Softball Junior Men’s Fast Pitch National Team program will participate in a training camp starting today at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. The camp, which is designed to strengthen prospective Junior Men’s Fast Pitch National Team pitchers and catchers, runs Jan. 25-27 under the direction of Junior Men’s Fast Pitch National Team Head Coach Tim Lyon (South Jordan, Utah) and assistant coaches Gary Mullican (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Kyle Magnusson (Cedar City, Utah) and Scott Standerfer (Charleston, Ill.).

 

Athletes attending the training camp hail from ten states (Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah). The camp attendees are:

 

Jason Aguilar (Humble, Texas)

Wesley Anderson (Heyworth, Ill.)

Faron Apauty Jr. (Anadarko, Okla.)

Anthony Aresco III (Stoneham, Mass.)

Ryan Barnes (Lehi, Utah)

Tyler Bouley (Champlin, Minn.)

Daniel Centeno Jr. (Salem, Utah)

Zane Chason (Grand Ridge, Fla.)

Taylor Dykgraaf-Meyer (Wayland, Mich.)

Kyle Gnatkowski (Saginaw, Mich.)

Collin Hopkins (Decatur, Ill.)

Jeffrey Lewis (Amboy, Minn.)

Craig Lewis (Winston, Mo.)

Jordan Lichnovsky (Vassar, Mich.)

Markos Sedillos (Las Cruces, N.M.)

Parker Wood (West Valley City, Utah)

 

The next international competition for the Junior Men’s Fast Pitch Team will be in July of 2014 when they compete in the 10th International Softball Federation (ISF) Junior Men’s World Championship in White Horse, Yukon, Canada.

 

About ASA Softball
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 76 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 200,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/.

 

About USA Softball
USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior Girls’ National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is one of only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won nine World Championship titles as well as claimed six World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.

 

 

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