Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA)

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. --- The Amateur Softball Association, the National Governing Body of Softball in the United States and USA Softball announced today the list of invitees for the 2007 USA Softball Men’s National Team selection camp. The camp will be held May 25-28 at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., and will be used to select the USA Men’s National Team that will compete in the ISF World Cup, June 16-25 in Prague, Czech Republic and the American Challenge Series, July 12-15 in Oklahoma City.

The American Challenge Series was developed by the ASA to help promote and grow men’s fast pitch in the United States. The American Challenge Series will be held in conjunction with the III World Cup of Softball and will feature four of the top teams in the world including the USA and Japan. For the first time ever ESPN will televise one of the USA Men’s games on its network.

The following is a complete list of the players invited to the May selection camp:

Paul Algar (Lexington, Ill.)

Chad Boom (Barnesville, Minn.)

Todd Budke (Quartz Hill, Calif.)

Gregg Cascaes (Apple Valley, Minn.)

Frank DeGroat, Jr. (Ringwood, N.J.)

Chris DeLarwelle (Appleton, Wis.)

Nate Devine (Merced, Calif.)

Chad Ferguson (Battle Creek, Mich.)

Don Garvey (Appleton, Wis.)

Lucas Goring (St. Paul, Minn.)

BJ Hunhoff (Harrisburg, S.D.)

Chris Hunt (Whittier, Calif.)

Tim Hunt (La Habra, Calif.)

Luis Joglar (Fairview, N.J.)

Paul Koert (Rochester, Minn.)

Tony Kunka (Moorhead, Minn.)

Adam LaLonde (Kentwood, Mich.)

Jason Loe (Sioux Falls, S.D.)

Terry Luster (Bunceton, Mo.)

Kyle Magnusson (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Anthony Martinez (Covina, Calif.)

Chris Miljavac (St. Joseph, Mo.)

Blake Miller (Albany, Ga.)

Omar Moraga (Tucson, Ariz.)

James Pecoraro (Swansea, Ill.)

Tony Peeples (San Miguel, Calif.)

Philip Perkins (St. Michaels, Ariz.)

Travis Price (Santa Ana, Calif.)

Orlando Rodriguez (Haverstraw, N.Y.)

Todd Schultz (Williamston, Mich.)

Cody Thomson (Auburn, Wy.)

Michael White (Eugene, Ore.)

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 84 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. For more information about USA Softball, please visit www.usasoftball.com

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