This summer amateur baseball players from Northern Texas will have an opportunity to tryout for USA Baseball’s Northern Texas Regional NTIS Team.
These tryouts will not interfere with players' committments to their summer teams and is the exclusive way for younger players to make it to the USA Team trials. Some clubs forbid players from participating in USA Baseball events, but this deprives good players from the most important opportunity to be seen by scouts and to represent their country.
The Northern Texas Region will be sending three teams (13U, 15U and 17U) to USA Baseball’s National Training Complex in Cary, NC to compete in the National Team Identification Series (NTIS). The NTIS program, in its third year of existence, serves as a vehicle to identify and recruit the most talented baseball players in the nation to tryout for an invitation to USA Baseball’s National Team Trials.
“One of the real priorities of the program is to offer players more of a localized evaluation opportunity than ever before,” said Rick Riccobono, USA Baseball Director of Development. Before you can be considered for the National Team, you must first be identified at a regional selection camp.
“While the priority of our selection camps will be to find the best baseball players within our region”, explains Tommy Hernandez, Director of the Northern Texas NTIS Region, “Our goal is to provide a top notch opportunity that players of all levels will be able to benefit from.”
The 2011 USA Baseball NTIS again promises to be one of the most heavily-scouted baseball events of the fall. Tommy Hernandez, founder and president of the Dallas Tigers Baseball Club, said, “My teams have always participated in USA Baseball events because the opportunity to play for your country is the highest honor achievable by any player. I am excited to be chosen to direct this region’s trials. With the help of my staff, I intend to identify players in the 13, 15 and 17 year old age groups to form three competitive teams to travel to Cary, NC in September.”
Accordingly, Hernandez has assembled a very impressive coaching staff to administer the selection camps. “Our coaches know the game, love the game, and are the best teachers of the game around,” says Hernandez.
Baseball players interested in participating in one of the Northern Texas Regional Selection Camps must have been born between 1994 -1999. Visit http://www.northtexasntis.com for registration details and camp locations. There will also be a tournament for 15U and 17U teams where additional players will be identified for the North Texas team that will travel to Cary.
For Additional Information please contact: Tommy Hernandez
NTIS Northern Texas Regional Director
972-304-2767
info@northtexasntis.com
www.usabaseball.com
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