USA Baseball has released the names of five managers who will lead the US’s national teams in international competition in 2014.
USA Baseball decided to appoint managers who have past national team coaching experience with Team USA and who have helped generate results that recently saw the USA baseball programme take over the top position in the World Baseball Rankings.
USA Baseball executive director/CEO Paul Seiler was “thrilled” to secure the group of managers that has previously helped to guide Team USA’s national teams.
“To have a group of coaches with prior USA Baseball experience and the impressive resumes at both the collegiate and high school levels will help continue the success we have come to expect on the international stage,” Seiler said.
Dave Van Horn, current skipper of the University of Arkansas baseball team, will lead the USA University National Team in 2014 competitions that include “International Friendship” series against the national selections of Chinese Taipei, Japan and Cuba (in Havana), as well as competing in the Honkbal Baseball Week annual tournament in Haarlem, Netherlands.
The 18U National Team will turn to Grand Canyon University’s Andy Stankiewicz for the 2014 campaign.
Parkview High School head coach, Chan Brown, will manage the 15U National Team in 2014 as it competes in its first-ever 15U Baseball World Cup in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico, August 1-10.
Eagle’s View Academy’s Terrance Freeman will lead the 12U National Team in continental competition and will look to continue on Team USA’s gold medal winning performance at the 2013 12U Baseball World Cup, where Freeman served as an assistant coach.
Jonathan Pollard takes over as manager of the Women’s National Team in 2014 after serving as an assistant on the 2012 Women’s National Team that won the silver medal at the Women’s Baseball World Cup in Edmonton, Canada.
USA Baseball will also send a professional caliber team to this year’s qualifier for the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto, and details around the coaching staff wiill be announced at a later date.
