CARY, N.C. – USA Baseball today announced the roster for the 2024 Collegiate National Team Training Camp that will compete in a two-game Stars vs. Stripes intrasquad series. The 2024 roster features 55 primarily non-draft-eligible players from across college baseball.
The Collegiate National Team Training Camp begins on June 25, with game one of the Stars vs. Stripes series following on June 26 at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina. The second game of the series will be on June 27 before the 55 players are split into two rosters: one that will compete in the 21st USA vs. Chinese Taipei International Friendship Series and another that will play in a four-game Summer League Tour against select teams from the Appalachian League and Coastal Plain League.
“The talent across college baseball this year has been nothing short of fantastic,” said Eric Campbell, USA Baseball’s General Manager of Professional and Collegiate National Teams. “We had an incredibly deep pool of players to select from for this year’s Collegiate National Team Training Camp and we are confident in the fifty-five players who will be arriving to Cary tomorrow. We are excited to get our Stars versus Stripes series underway.”
Nine USA Baseball alumni appear on this year’s Training Camp roster, including two players from last year’s Collegiate National Team. Ben Abeldt (TCU) and Jace LaViolette (Texas A&M) return to Cary to compete at Training Camp after helping lead Team USA to a 7-3 record against Chinese Taipei and Japan last summer. Two-time USA Baseball alums Gavin Grahovac (Texas A&M) and Steven Milam (LSU) will don the stars and stripes for a third time in 2024, and RJ Austin (Vanderbilt) returns to Team USA after playing for the 18U National Team in 2021. Additionally, five players from the gold-medal-winning 2019 15U squad will reunite at Training Camp: Drew Burress (Georgia Tech), Matthew Matthijis (North Carolina), Ethan McElvain (Vanderbilt), Milam, and Nolan Schubart (Oklahoma State).
Four other athletes, in addition to Abeldt and LaViolette, will make their return to Cary to compete at Training Camp for the second consecutive summer: Alton Davis II (Georgia), Anthony Martinez (UC Irvine), Matt Scott (Stanford), and Pablo Torres (Bethune-Cookman).
Additionally, seven players at this year’s Training Camp have previously participated in a USA Baseball National Team Development Program (NTDP). Grahovac and Milam have each participated in two NTDPs, reuniting with Dean Curley (Tennessee), Daniel Cuvet (Miami), McElvain, and Liam Peterson (Florida) from the 2021 edition of the event. Martinez participated in the 14U NTDP in 2018.
Overall, 37 schools and nine conferences are represented on the 2024 Training Camp roster. Vanderbilt leads all schools with four players on the 55-man roster, while Georgia, Louisville, North Carolina State, and UNC follow with three each. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) boasts 10 athletes on the roster to lead all conferences, followed by the Southeastern Conference (SEC), which has eight.
The 2024 Collegiate National Team will be led by International Friendship Series Manager José Vázquez and Summer League Tour Manager Gary Gilmore. Vázquez will be joined on staff by assistants Brady Austin, Mark Calvi, John McCormack, Skylar Meade, and Kier Meredith. Gilmore’s staff includes Chris Crenshaw, Justin Haire, Carlos Muñoz, Christian Ostrander, and Matt Pepin.
The Collegiate National Team begins the 2024 slate with the annual Stars vs. Stripes series on June 26 and 27 at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina. Following the conclusion of the series, the International Friendship Series roster will play in the 21st USA vs. Chinese Taipei International Friendship Series from June 29-July 3 while the Summer League Tour roster will play a four-game schedule against select teams from the Appalachian League and Coastal Plain League from June 29-July 2. The summer will then conclude with a matchup between the two U.S. rosters on July 4 at Segra Stadium in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Tickets for this year’s Collegiate National Team Training Camp, along with all tickets to Team USA’s games this summer, can be found HERE.
2024 Collegiate National Team Training Camp Roster
(Name; Position; School)
*Ben Abeldt; LHP; Texas Christian
Jamie Arnold; LHP; Florida State
*RJ Austin Jr.; UTL; Vanderbilt
Max Belyeu; OF; Texas
Tucker Biven; RHP; Louisville
Caden Bodine; C; Coastal Carolina
Tyler Bremner; RHP; UC Santa Barbara
Brooks Bryan; C; Troy
*Drew Burress; OF; Georgia Tech
Cooper Consiglio; LHP; North Carolina State
^Dean Curley; INF; Tennessee
^Daniel Cuvet; INF; Miami (FL)
Gabe Davis; RHP; Oklahoma State
Alton Davis II; LHP; Georgia
Jason DeCaro; RHP; UNC
Danny Dickinson; INF; Utah Valley
Jacob Dudan; RHP; North Carolina State
Anthony Eyanson; RHP; UC San Diego
Patrick Forbes; OF/RHP; Louisville
Henry Ford; INF; Virginia
Gabe Gaeckle; RHP; Arkansas
Jamal George; C/INF; Alabama State
AJ Gracia; OF/LHP; Duke
*^Gavin Grahovac; INF; Texas A&M
Miller Green; LHP; Vanderbilt
Marek Houston; INF; Wake Forest
Ben Jacobs; LHP; Arizona State
Kyle Johnson; OF/LHP; Duke
Nelson Keljo; LHP; Oregon State
*Jace LaViolette; OF; Texas A&M
Justin Lebron; INF; Alabama
^Anthony Martinez; INF; UC Irvine
*Matthew Matthijs; RHP; UNC
*^Ethan McElvain; LHP; Vanderbilt
*^Steven Milam; INF; Louisiana State
Trey Newmann; RHP
^Liam Peterson; RHP; Florida
Tre Phelps; INF; Georgia
Brett Renfrow; RHP; Virginia Tech
Luis Rodriguez; RHP; Alabama State
Zion Rose; C; Louisville
*Nolan Schubart; OF/INF; Oklahoma State
Matt Scott; RHP; Stanford
Eric Segura; RHP; Oregon State
Brennan Seiber; RHP; Vanderbilt
Kolten Smith; RHP; Georgia
Derrick Smith; RHP; North Carolina State
Luke Stevenson; C; UNC
Devin Taylor; OF; Indiana
Pablo Torres; RHP; Bethune-Cookman
Dominic Voegele; RHP; Kansas
Joey Volchko; RHP; Stanford
Kyle Walker; INF; Grambling State
Kyson Witherspoon; RHP; Oklahoma
Malachi Witherspoon; RHP; Oklahoma
* USA Baseball alum
^ participated in a National Team Development Program
