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USA Junior Men begin preparation for 2008 World Championships
By Julie Bartel // USA Softball // January 24, 2008
Oklahoma City, Okla. -- The USA Softball Junior Men’s team will begin its preparation to the World Championship with a training camp January 23-26 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. The participating members of the national training team will report to camp on Wednesday and practice through Saturday before returning home.
Preparing for competition at the International Softball Federation VIII Jr. Men’s World Championship, June 20-29 in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, the Red, White and Blue are led by head coach Tim Lyon (South Jordan, Utah), and assistant coaches Gary Mullican (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Scott Standerfer (Charleston, Ill.). Team USA finished fifth in the 2005 World Championships, tying their best finish in World Championship history. In 1993, they posted a 4-8 record and placed fifth as well.
The list of 22 participants for the January 23-26 team camp include:
Robbie Black (Salem, Utah)
Jeremy Cline (Pauma Valley, Calif.)
Danyel Dondero (Big Pine, Calif.)
Mitchell Elliott (Wexford, Pa.)
Dominic Garcia (Kansas City, Kan.)
Drew Gunderson (St. Paul, Minn.)
Bryant Hale (Pinckneyville, Ill.)
James Hartman (Hartford, S.D.)
Mike Hayes (Salem, Utah)
Adam Henry (Conception Jct., Mo.)
B.J. Hunhoff (Harrisburg, S.D.)
Tyson Lambourne (Spanish Fork, Utah)
Cedrick Lang (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
Gentry Mitchell (Spanish Fork, Utah)
Chris Norris (Spanish Fork, Utah)
Robert Reder (Aurora, Ill.)
Nick Santos (Pueblo, Colo.)
Tony Viger (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
Justin Warne (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
Mitch Warne (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
J.T. Weststeyn (Ballwin, Mo.)
Kevin Williams (Lake Crystal, Minn.)
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 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 240,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit 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 eight World Championship titles including the last six consecutive as well as claimed two World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit www.usasoftball.com
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