Additional athletes invited to USA Softball Women’s and Junior Women's National Team Selection Camp

November 20, 2014

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Additional athletes invited to USA Softball Women’s and Junior Women's National Team Selection Camp

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today an addition of athletes who have received an invitation to the 2015 USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team (JWNT) Selection Camp and Women's National Team (WNT) Selection Camp.  Slated to be held at Bill Barber Park in Irvine, Calif., the JWNT Selection Camp will be held January 3-4, 2015 while the WNT Selection Camp will be held January 5-7, 2015. 

 

Click here to see the additional invitees for the USA Softball Junior Women's National Team Selection Camp

                                                                   

The additional invitees will join the 20 athletes who have already accepted their invitation to attend the 2015 USA Softball JWNT Selection Camp.  Seventeen athletes will be selected by members of the USA Softball Women's National Team Selection Committee (WNTSC) to represent the United States as a member of the 2015 JWNT roster that will compete at the World Cup of Softball X in July, 2015 in Southern California and the International Softball Federation (ISF) Junior Women's World Championship, which will be held August 9-15 in Oklahoma City, Okla. at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex.

 

ASA/USA Softball will also hold an open tryout opportunity for players hoping to make the 2015 USA Softball JWNT.  Held January 2, 2015 at Bill Barber Park,  eligible athletes have from now through December 5 to sign up and submit payment through USASoftball.com for the open tryout, which will involve a series of softball related skill drills for each position, hitting and bunting.  The top athletes from the open tryout will be selected to participate at the USA Softball JWNT Selection Camp along with the list of invited athletes.

 

With Tairia Flowers (Tucson, Ariz./ head coach at Cal State Northridge) at the head of the Junior Women’s program, joining Flowers as the assistant coaches for the JWNT staff are Trisha Ford (Fremont, Calif./head coach at Fresno State), Kristie Fox (San Diego, Calif./head coach at UT- Arlington) and Tim Walton (Cerritos, Calif./head coach at University of Florida).

 

Click here to see the additional invitees for the USA Softball Women's National Team Selection Camp

 

The additional invitees will join the 28 athletes who have already accepted their invitation to attend the 2015 USA Softball WNT Selection Camp and will vie for 17 spots on the 2015 USA Softball Women’s National Team (WNT) roster that will compete at the World Cup of Softball X and a spot on the 15-athlete roster that will compete in the 2015 Pan American Games, which will be held July 15-26 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

 

With Ken Eriksen (Tampa, Fla./head coach at USF) at the head of the Women's program, the assistant coaches will be Laura Berg (Corvallis, Ore./head coach at Oregon State), Howard Dobson (Orange, Texas/assistant coach at LSU) and Lisa Dodd (San Diego, Calif./head coach at UNLV). 

 

For updates on the USA Softball National Team Program and events throughout the 2015 season visit www.USASoftball.com.

 

About ASA
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 165,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than 2.5 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 the 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 seven World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com.  

 

 

Codi Warren

Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications

Amateur Softball Association of America/USA Softball

Office 405.425.3431 | Cell 405. 420. 2817