{"id":18154,"date":"2012-09-07T15:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18154"},"modified":"2012-09-08T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T18:03:42","slug":"team-usa-roster-for-2013-isf-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18154","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Roster for 2013 ISF Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip Blair Setford.<\/em><figure id=\"attachment_8471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8471\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admin.usasoftball.com\/news.asp?uid=7135&amp;p=303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/USASoftball-150.jpg\" alt=\"Click for original press release.\" title=\"USASoftball 150\" width=\"150\" height=\"94\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8471\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">x<\/figcaption><\/figure>USA Softball names Men\u2019s Fast Pitch National Team roster for 2013 ISF World Championships<\/p>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2013 The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America announced today the roster for the 2013 USA Softball Men\u2019s National Team that will compete next March in Auckland, New Zealand for the International Softball Federation (ISF) World Championship. In all, 29 athletes tried out in the USA Men\u2019s National Team Selection Camp held in late July in Ashland, Ohio. Seventeen members were selected to fill the roster.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">\u201cI think we\u2019re going to have a really competitive team,\u201d said Men\u2019s National Team selection committee member Warren Jones. \u201cWe\u2019ve got some new, young faces that have made a name for themselves in the fast pitch softball world and we\u2019ve got some older guys who have been around and know the ropes.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 17 athletes who have been selected to the 2013 USA Softball Men\u2019s National Team are: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDerrick Zechman (Watsontown, Pa.)<br \/>\nFrank DeGroat Jr. (Ringwood, N.J.)<br \/>\nRoman Foore (Rosemount, Minn.)<br \/>\nJaime Cruz Garcia Jr. (Kansas City, Kan.)<br \/>\nJosh Johnson (Brooklyn, Wis.)<br \/>\nTrevor Kelly (Marshall, Mich.)<br \/>\nEddy Ketelhut (Frankenmuth, Mich.)<br \/>\nAdam LaLonde (Ashland, Ky.)<br \/>\nDave Lohman (Lindenhurst, N.Y.)<br \/>\nMatt Palazzo (Des Moines, Iowa)<br \/>\nTravis Price (Orange, Calif.)<br \/>\nRobert Rostenhausler (Tucson, Ariz.)<br \/>\nTodd Schultz (Williamston, Mich.)<br \/>\nMarcus Tan (Umon City, Calif.)<br \/>\nChase Turner (San Jose, Calif.)<br \/>\nTommy Crouch (Dekalb, Ill.)<br \/>\nGerald Muizelaar (Grand Forks, N.D.)<br \/>\n*Kevin Castillo (Long Beach, Calif.)<br \/>\n*Matt Ratliff (American Fork, Utah)<br \/>\n*Alternates<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Members of the 2013 Men\u2019s National Team will participate in an invitational tournament in Orlando, Fla. January 16-20 before heading off to Auckland, New Zealand for the ISF World Championship, March 1-10, 2013. This will be the third time that New Zealand has hosted the Men\u2019s Softball World Championship (1976, 2004). The United States will be looking for their sixth World Championship title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip Blair Setford.USA Softball names Men\u2019s Fast Pitch National Team roster for 2013 ISF World Championships OKLAHOMA CITY \u2013 The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America announced today the roster for the 2013 USA Softball Men\u2019s National Team that will compete next March in Auckland, New Zealand for the International Softball Federation (ISF) World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asa","8":"category-international","9":"category-isf","10":"category-players","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18157,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions\/18157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}