Adam Morissette, of Baseball Canada, provides a rundown of the Canadians selected in the 2020 MLB Draft.
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The World Baseball Softball Confederation announced new dates for the 2020 Women’s Baseball World Cup now set to take place from November 12-21 in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Baseball Canada is pleased to announce the names of 13 athletes in the 16U girls baseball category who have been identified by officials of the Women’s National Team program. These athletes were on the path to compete on the “Prospects Team” at the Women’s Invitational Championships later this year in Stonewall, Man., prior to the event being cancelled due to Covid-19.
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Great Lake Canadians and Junior National Team alum Griffin Hassall (Newmarket, Ont.) has earned Academic All-Big 12 Second Team honours in his sophomore year at Kansas State University.
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She looks in for the sign from her catcher, comes set and takes a deep breath to gather herself before kicking and firing a fastball over the outside part of the plate. This routine was something that Heidi Northcott did numerous times over the course of her baseball career with the Women’s National Team program. Today, although she wears a different type of uniform, it’s that routine and preparedness learned in baseball that is helping in her role as a Registered Respiratory Therapist at an adult acute care setting in Edmonton.
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Jenna Flannigan (Cornwall, Ont.) has announced her retirement from the Women’s National Team.
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The Canadian Women’s National Baseball Team knows how to get it done on the field with a current world ranking of No. 2 and six all-time medals collected at eight Women’s Baseball World Cup events. This group of amazing athletes is now coming together to make a difference off the field for the first-ever TOGETHER FOR WOMEN, an on-line event on Saturday, May 16 that will showcase some of Canada’s top female athletes in support of the Canadian Women’s Foundation.
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Over the last eight weeks, Baseball Canada has hosted subject-matter experts on strength and conditioning, pitching, defensive play, catching, vision performance and mental performance in an effort to continue to provide coaches across the country with useful information during the Covid-19 pandemic. The sessions were a resounding success with hundreds of coaches taking advantage of the expertise and information that was provided.
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Baseball Canada has announced the host sites for some of the future national championships that will be held 2021, 2022 and 2023.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, their next “Monday Hot Stove” session on May 11 will feature Minnesota Twins minor league hitting coordinator Donegal Fergus.
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The eyes of the baseball world will shift to Korea today for the start of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season that includes London, Ontario’s Jamie Romak who will be entering his fourth season with SK Wyverns, one of the teams in the 10-team loop.
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Larry Walker will have to wait another year to be formally inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York after the announcement on Wednesday that its Board of Directors had voted unanimously to cancel the 2020 induction ceremonies and postpone to 2021 over concerns associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Thanks in large part to the coaching he has received through the Ontario Terriers and Junior National Team, Elijha Hammill (Oakville, Ont.) is now preparing to join a strong U.S. collegiate program. He recently announced his commitment to the University of Utah.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they will welcome Jean François Ménard as their featured guest on their next Monday “Hot Stove” session on May 4. An industry leader and expert in mental performance coaching, Menard has worked with numerous world-class athletes and Olympic medal winners including Mikaël Kingsbury, Tessa Virtue and Maxence Parrott along with Super Bowl champion Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and World Champion boxer Marie-Ève Dicaire.
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A pair of Junior National Team outfielders have caught the attention of MLB Pipeline as Owen Caissie (Burlington, Ont.) and David Calabrese (Maple, Ont.) both appear on the list of the top 150 prospects for the 2020 MLB Draft.
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Baseball Canada’s Board of Directors along with the Executive Committee have made the difficult decision to cancel all 2020 Baseball Canada National Championships due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they are pleased to announce that their “Monday Hot Stove” session on April 27 will feature Martijn Nijhoff. An expert in “motor control and movement analysis,” Nijhoff holds the title of Skills Acquisition Consultant with the Pittsburgh Pirates where he primarily works with coaches and instructors in the Player Development system.
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Baseball Canada is expressing its gratitude to its many volunteers during National Volunteer Week.
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The World Children’s Baseball Fair, scheduled for August 14-21, 2020 in Narita, Japan, has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they will welcome Ryan Harrison as their featured guest on their Monday Hot Stove session on April 20. Harrison is a certified sports performance vision trainer who holds a degree in Exercise Physiology from University of California at Davis. For over two decades he has worked with world-class athletes, including those from MLB, NHL, MMA, WTP and PGA among others.
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