2009-12 selection committees

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Amateur Softball Association (ASA), the National Governing Body (NGB) for softball in the United States, announced today that applications are now being accepted to form the Men’s National Team Selection Committee (MNTSC) and the Women’s National Team Selection Committee (WNTSC) of USA Softball for the next Olympic Quadrennium (2009-2012). Applications must be received no later than Sept. 30, 2009. 

The MNTSC will be responsible for selecting the players and coaches for the Men’s National Team (MNT) program while the WNTSC will be responsible for selecting for the Women’s National Team (WNT) program. 

All candidates must be ASA Council member or a representative of an allied member. Candidates for either committee must submit the a letter of application and a resume to USA Softball’s Director of National Teams Ronnie Isham and the materials must be received no later than Sept. 30. The letter of application and resume must include:

• Your national playing, coaching and/or staff experience
• Your international playing, coaching and/or staff experience
• Your experience administrating national and/or international softball
• The reasons you would like to be a member of this committee
• A minimum of three references including names, addresses and appropriate contact numbers

Please send letter of application and resume to: 

Ronnie Isham
Director of National Teams
USA Softball
2801 N. E. 50th Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73111 

For more information, contact Ronnie Isham at risham@softball.org. 

About ASA 

The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation's largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 240,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/. 

About USA Softball 

USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men's, Women's, Junior Boys' and Junior Girls' National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women's National Team is one of the only two women's sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won eight World Championship titles including the last six consecutive as well as claimed two World Cup of Softball titles.