Following a two-day selection process,17 athletes and three alternates have been selected to represent the United States as a member of the 2015 USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team (JWNT) the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today.

Selected by members of the Women’s National Team Selection Committee, these athletes are slated to participate in the International Softball Federation (ISF) Junior Women’s World Championship in August in Oklahoma City, Okla. and the World Cup of Softball X in Southern California in July.

“We have a good mix of speed and power and I’m very excited to see what we can do defensively,” said Head Coach Tairia Flowers, the Head Coach at Cal State Northridge).

“Overall, we have a good group of girls and will head into the summer with some experience with athletes having a full college season under their belt.  We’ve also got a few young ones who will just be finishing up their high school careers.  The staff and I are looking forward to the summer and we know that these girls will be ready to go when we head to Oklahoma City for the ISF World Championships.”

Click here to see the athletes selected to the 2015 USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team

In all, 11 NCAA Division I universities are represented while six athletes will be finishing up their senior year of high school prior to the 2015 season.

Also joining the roster are four athletes who participated at the USA Softball Junior Women’s Open Tryout on January 2.

With Tairia Flowers at the head of the Junior Women’s program, Trisha Ford, the Head Coach at Fresno State, Kristie Fox, the Head Coach at UT- Arlington and Tim Walton, the Head Coach at the Univ. of Florida, will serve as Assistant Coaches throughout the summer.

This marks the first stint with the National Team Program for Fox and Walton, while Ford returns for her second season with the JWNT.

Team USA is looking to reclaim the Gold Medal at the ISF Junior Women’s World Championship (JWWC) after falling 4-0 to Japan at the 2013 JWWC in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

Slated for August 9-15 at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City, the best 19-Under teams in the world will take to the softball capital of the world to compete for the World Championship.