Canada announces U-23 Men’s National Softball Team preliminary roster

Canada announces U-23 Men’s National Softball Team preliminary roster
14/09/2021
Canada is scheduled to compete at the Pan American Championship next year, a qualifier for the inaugural WBSC U23 Men’s Softball World Cup in Argentina.

Softball Canada has revealed a list of 24 athletes who will attend the country's U-23 Men’s National Team selection camp from September 30 to October 3 in Saskatoon.

Canada is scheduled to compete at a Pan American continental qualifier next year, with the top four teams from that event advancing to the inaugural WBSC U-23 Men’s Softball World Cup in Argentina in 2022. 

Softball Canada’s website published the list of national team candidates.

The athletes were selected by the U-23 Men’s National Team coaching staff – consisting of head coach Doug Allin and assistant coaches Dean Holoien and Mark Quinn – following a series of regional identification camps that were held across the country earlier this summer and scouting at the recently concluded Rawlings Grand Slam event held in Saskatoon.

The list includes at least nine players from Canada’s fourth-place team at the WBSC Junior Men’s Softball World Championship 2018 in Prince Albert (Brendan Hagerman, Dallas Kipfer, Troy Konsmiynka, Isaac Lefebvre, Riley Manion, Jordan Pomeroy, Rowan Sears, Owen Torrie and David Watson) and two from the Canadian national team that competed in the inaugural WBSC U-18 Men’s Softball World Cup in 2020 in Palmerston North, New Zealand (Connor Brooks and Reese Yantzi).

Softball Canada established the U-23 Men’s National Team program following the addition of that age category on the WBSC World Cup schedule. Canada is scheduled to compete at a Pan American continental qualifier in Colombia in the first three months of 2022. The top four teams from that event will compete in the inaugural U-23 Men’s Softball World Cup in Argentina in November 2022.