[Alsfastball] ASA announces Women’s 2005 Pan American Qualifier team and 2006 National Training Team

[Al Doran]

Subject: ASA/USA Softball announces Women's 2005 Pan American Qualifier 
team and 2006 National Training Team
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:15:24 -0500

From: "Julie Eversgerd" <jeversgerd at softball.org>


For Immediate Release: 9/15/05

ASA announces Women's 2005 Pan American Qualifier team and 2006 National 
Training Team

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. --- The Amateur Softball Association, the National 
Governing Body of Softball in the United States and USA Softball announced 
today the 17-member 2005 Women's Pan American Qualifier National team as 
well as the 2006 National Training team.  Selected by the Women's National 
Team Selection Committee, players participated in a four day camp September 
7-10 at the U.S. Olympic training center in Chula Vista, Calif.

The Pan American Qualifier team will compete November 26-December 5 in 
Guatemala City, Guatemala, at the qualifier tournament for the 2006 World 
Championships in Beijing, China and the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de 
Janeiro. The 2006 National Training team will train together during 
selected weeks from January- May of 2006.

Mike Candrea (Casa Grande, Ariz., head coach at Arizona) will lead the Red, 
White and Blue in Guatemala assisted by John Rittman (San Jose, Calif., 
head coach at Stanford University), Teresa Wilson (Lubbock, Texas, head 
coach at Texas Tech) and Stacy Iveson (Tucson, Ariz., head coach at Pima 
Community College).

The following is a complete breakdown of both teams with their hometowns 
and college listed in parenthesis (* are players that have college 
eligibility):

2005 PAN AMERICAN QUAILFIER TEAM

Laura Berg (Santa Fe Springs, Calif., Fresno State)
Crystl Bustos (Canyon Country, Calif., West Palm Beach C.C.)
Jaime Clark (Tustin, Calif., Washington)
Jennie Finch (La Mirada, Calif., Arizona)
Tairia Flowers (Tucson, Ariz., UCLA)
Amanda Freed (Cypress, Calif., UCLA)
Vicky Galindo (Union City, Calif., California-Berkeley)
Lovie Jung (Fountain Valley, Calif., Arizona)
Kelly Kretschman (Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., Alabama)
Toni Mascarenas (Garden Grove, Calif., Arizona)
Jessica Mendoza (Camarillo, Calif., Stanford)
Stacey Nuveman (La Verne, Calif., UCLA)
Cat Osterman (Houston, Texas, Texas)*
Jamie Southern (Clovis, Calif., Fresno State)
Jenny Topping (Whittier, Calif., Cal State Fullerton)
Natasha Watley (Irvine, Calif., UCLA)
Kellie Wilkerson (Jacksonville, Fla., Mississippi State)

2006 NATIONAL TRAINING TEAM
Monica Abbott (Salinas, Calif., Tennessee)*
Laura Berg (Santa Fe Springs, Calif., Fresno State)
Crystl Bustos (Canyon Country, Calif., West Palm Beach C.C.)
Jaime Clark (Tustin, Calif., Washington)
Lisa Fernandez (Long Beach, Calif., UCLA)
Jennie Finch (La Mirada, Calif., Arizona)
Tairia Flowers (Tucson, Ariz., UCLA)
Amanda Freed (Cypress, Calif., UCLA)
Vicky Galindo (Union City, Calif., California-Berkeley)
Alicia Hollowell (Suisun, Calif., Arizona)*
Lovie Jung (Fountain Valley, Calif., Arizona)
Lauren Lappin (Anaheim, Calif., Stanford)*
Caitlin Lowe (Tustin, Calif., Arizona)*
Toni Mascarenas (Garden Grove, Calif., Arizona)
Jessica Mendoza (Camarillo, Calif., Stanford)
Jessica Merchant (Wayland, Mich., Michigan)
Stacey Nuveman (La Verne, Calif., UCLA)
Cat Osterman (Houston, Texas, Texas)*
Jennie Ritter (Dexter, Mich., Michigan)*
Jamie Southern (Clovis, Calif., Fresno State)
Jenny Topping (Whittier, Calif., Cal State Fullerton)
Mackenzie Vandergeest (Thousand Oaks, Calif., Arizona)
Natasha Watley (Irvine, Calif., UCLA)
Kellie Wilkerson (Jacksonville, Fla., Mississippi State)
Kristen Zaleski (Temple, Texas, Texas State University)

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 88 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 seven World Championship titles including the last five 
consecutive. For more information about USA Softball, please visit 
www.usasoftball.com




Julie Eversgerd
ASA/USA Softball
Asst. Director of Communications
2801 NE 50th St.
Oklahoma City, OK 73111
(405) 425-3431 Phone
(405) 410-6308 Cell
(405) 424-4734 Fax
<http://www.asasoftball.com>www.asasoftball.com
www.usasoftball.com



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