{"id":25034,"date":"2014-12-18T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25034"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:10:31","slug":"big-season-ahead-for-canadas-jeff-ellsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25034","title":{"rendered":"Big season ahead for Canada&#8217;s Jeff Ellsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalpioneer.com\/Sports\/2014-12-17\/article-3980233\/Big-season-ahead\/1\">From the Journal Pioneer<\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Eric McCarthy<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEllsworth preparing for two international events with Team Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019LEARY \u2013 As he enters the twilight of his softball career with Team Canada, Jeff Ellsworth enjoys seeing the passion of new players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I was there years ago,\u201d recalls Ellsworth. \u201cI still remember, in Mexico, when they announced my name for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuddy pitched three straight pitches right down the middle of the plate, and I never swung at a pitch. I just smiled and went back to the dugout because I was just in shock that I was actually playing on the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Core players<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Softball Canada recently named Ellsworth as one of the core players who\u2019ll compete for Canada at next year\u2019s International Softball Federation (ISF) men\u2019s world championship in Saskatoon, Sask., from June 26 to July 5, and the Pan Am Games in Ajax, Ont., from July 12 to 18.<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada also invited 13 additional players to a national team selection camp in May, which will help identify 17 players for the ISF world championship and 15 for the Pan Am championship.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalpioneer.com\/Sports\/2014-12-17\/article-3980233\/Big-season-ahead\/1\">Click here to continue reading the story at the Journal Pioneer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Journal Pioneer By Eric McCarthy Ellsworth preparing for two international events with Team Canada O\u2019LEARY \u2013 As he enters the twilight of his softball career with Team Canada, Jeff Ellsworth enjoys seeing the passion of new players. \u201cI know I was there years ago,\u201d recalls Ellsworth. \u201cI still remember, in Mexico, when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,9,12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-canada","7":"category-international","8":"category-isf","9":"category-tournaments","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034","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=25034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25035,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034\/revisions\/25035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}