USA Softball selects 2006 Men’sPan American Qualifier Team

September 11, 2006

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USA Softball selects 2006 Men’sPan American Qualifier Team

 

Oklahoma City---USA Softballannounced today the selection of 17 athletes to represent the United States at the VII Pan AmericanMen’s Softball Qualifier, September 29-October 10, in Hermosillo, MexicoThis event will be used to qualify teams from the Pan American region for the2009 ISF Men’s World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.

Players selected included eight members of the USA team that captured the 2006 AAU Men’sFast Pitch Tournament in Orlando Fla., in February. It was thefirst event won by the Men’s National Team since it captured the goldmedal at the 2002 Pan Am Qualifier in Guatemala.

Members from the AAU championship squad are Chad Boom (Barnesville,Minn.), Frank DeGroat (Ringwood, Mich.), Chris Miljavic (St. Joseph, Mo.),Blake Miller (Albany, Ga.), Sonny Perkins (St. Michaels, Ariz.), Travis Price(Santa Ana, Calif.), Landy Rodriguez (West Haverstraw, N.Y.) and Michael White(Sioux City, Iowa).

Other players selected to the roster include Paul Algar (Lexington,Ill.), Gregg Cascaes (Apple Valley, Minn.), Chad Ferguson (Battle Creek,Mich.), Lucas Goring (St. Paul, Minn.), Luis Joglar (Fairview, N.J.), KyleMagnusson (Salt Lake City, Utah), Omar Moraga (Tucson, Ariz.), James Pecoraro(Swansea, Ill.) and Tony Peeples (San Miguel, Calif.).

 

The USA Softball Men’s Pan Am Qualifier team will be led by headcoach Peter Turner (Stockton Calif.). Turner will be assistedby Thad Brown (Modesto, Calif.and Mitch Munthe (Modesto, Calif.)

 

The 2006 USA Softball Men’s National Team will participate in atraining camp in Chula Vista, Calif.beginning September 24 before departing for Hermosillo on September 27.

 

About ASA

The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National GoverningBody of softball in the United States and a member of the United StatesOlympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sportsorganizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of87 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the earlydays to over 230,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than threemillion. For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com.

About USASoftball

USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links theUSA 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 internationaland domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is oneof the only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement tocapture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S.women have also won seven World Championship titles including the last fiveconsecutive. For more information about USA Softball, please visit

www.usasoftball.com