CARY, N.C. – USA Baseball right now introduced the 24 gamers who might be advancing from this previous week’s 12U Nationwide Group Coaching Camp in Cary, North Carolina, to Prolonged Coaching Camp. The Prolonged Coaching Camp might be held in South Florida this November, the place the workers will finalize an 18-player roster to compete within the 2026 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) U-12 Baseball Pan American Championship. The occasion will happen November 20-27 within the Dominican Republic.
The choice comes on the conclusion of 5 days of robust working towards and high-level coaching for 36 younger ballplayers, a lot of whom have performed 9 straight days of baseball because the starting of the 11U Futures Invitational final week. The athletes competed head-to-head in 4 consecutive intrasquad scrimmages over the previous 4 days, with Group Stars narrowly prevailing over Group Stripes with a 2-1-1 file.
“After a profitable week of Coaching Camp, we’re thrilled to disclose the ultimate twenty-four gamers for this 12 months’s 12U Nationwide Group Prolonged Coaching Camp,” stated 12U Nationwide Group Program Director Cole Beeker. “Our workers was extraordinarily impressed with the trouble and focus that gamers delivered to Coaching Camp day in and time out. We stay up for reconvening in November and finalizing our eighteen-man roster that we are going to take to the Dominican Republic.”
With the primary part of Coaching Camp now full, the 12U Nationwide Group workers turns its consideration to finishing the 2026 roster and competing for a gold medal. This system is within the midst of an historic streak of success after Group USA gained its eighth gold medal in 12 years on the 2025 WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup final summer season. The U.S. has medaled in six of the seven WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cups it has participated in and presently leads all nations with six world cup titles.
Click on right here to view the schedule for the 12U Nationwide Group in 2026, which incorporates Prolonged Coaching Camp and the WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup Americas Qualifier. For essentially the most up-to-date data on the 12U Nationwide Group, go to usabaseball.com and comply with @USABaseball and @USABaseball12U on Twitter.
2026 12U Nationwide Group Prolonged Coaching Camp Roster
(Identify – Place – Hometown)
- Atticus Arnold – INF/LHP – Spanish Fort, Ala.
- Carver Brown – INF/RHP – Stanwood, Wash.
- Callen Bruesch – INF/LHP – Geneva, Unwell.
- Jaylen Carpenter – OF/LHP – Inglewood, Calif.
- Matthew Craig – INF/LHP – Cumming, Ga.
- Kohen Davis – C/RHP – Loganville, Ga.
- Rogelio Garcia – INF/OF/RHP – Laredo, Texas
- Money Gonzales – INF/RHP – Chandler, Ariz.
- Koda Graziadei – INF – Prosper, Texas
- Aiden Inexperienced – OF/LHP – Douglassville, Pa.
- Maverick Harwood – OF/RHP – Chandler, Ariz.
- Jerry Hennessey – OF – Laredo, Texas
- Aiden Izquierdo – OF/LHP – Vero Seaside, Fla.
- Noah Kirk – INF/RHP – San Diego, Calif.
- Caleb McDaniel – C/RHP – Burbank, Calif.
- Jethro Nelson – INF/RHP – St. Louis, Mo.
- Ransom Rasmussen – C – Scottsdale, Ariz.
- William Rezabek – INF/RHP – Midlothian, Va.
- Kai Rios – INF/RHP – Buena Park, Calif.
- Antonio Rolando – C/RHP – Stevenson Ranch, Calif.
- Cooper Thissen – OF/LHP – Davenport, Iowa
- David Thomas II – INF/RHP – Katy, Texas
- Taz Tulowitzki – INF/RHP – Austin, Texas
- Maguire Wright – INF/RHP – Harmony, Calif.
