May 9, 2008

Sophomores Kyle Gibson and Aaron Senne (Missouri) and Andrew Oliver(Oklahoma State) will participate in the USA Baseball National Team Trials scheduled for June 11-23. In all, 32 players will be invited to tryout,with 22 of those players being selected for the National Team roster.

USA Baseball's 2008 National Team schedule includes a six-game friendship series against Chinese Taipei and a month-long trip to Europe where the team will compete in Haarlem Baseball Week in the Netherlands and in the IV FISU World Collegiate Baseball Championship in the Czech Republic.

The 2008 USA Baseball National Team will be led by Oral Roberts University head coach Rob Walton, who served as an assistant coach for the 2005 National Team. Walton is joined on the 2008 staff by pitching coach Jerry Meyers (head coach, Old Dominion University), assistant coach Nino Giarratano (head coach, University of San Francisco), and assistant coach Ritch Price (head coach, University of Kansas). In addition, current Baylor University baseball media relations contact Larry Little will serve as the 2008 National Team press officer -- Little held the same position with the 2005 National Team.