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Jaden Woods Earns USA Baseball Team Invitation
June 10, 2022 | Baseball
ATHENS, Ga.-----University of Georgia pitcher Jaden Woods has been invited to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team (CNT) summer training camp, USA Baseball announced Friday.
Woods, a 6-2, 198-pound left-hander from Warner Robins, Ga., will compete for a spot on the final 26-man USA CNT roster. The camp will feature 48-50 of the premier non-draft eligible college players that will play a five-game intrasquad series in North Carolina from June 30-July 4. All five games of the series will be available to watch on USABaseball.com. The opening game will be held at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C., at 7 p.m. on June 30. The Durham Bulls Athletic Park will host games two, three and four. Games two and four will begin at 6:35 p.m. ET while game three will start at 5:05 p.m. ET. Training camp will conclude with the series finale on July 4 at Truist Field in Charlotte at 6:05 p.m. ET.
USA Baseball will select the final roster after that series. The 26-man squad will represent the United States at Honkbalweek Haarlem in the Netherlands from July 9-15. Team USA will face Japan, Italy, Cuba, the Netherlands, and Curacao during group stage play. The second round will begin July 14 followed by the championship on July 15.
Woods made 25 appearances for the Bulldogs as a sophomore, tallying a 1-1 record, a 4.80 ERA and three saves. He led the team with 80 strikeouts in 54.1 innings pitched while holding opponents to a .227 batting average. He helped Georgia go 36-23 and advance to the NCAA Chapel Hill (N.C.) Regional. He earned Freshman All-SEC honors in 2021 after going 4-1 with a 4.58 ERA and one save in 17 appearances including four starts. Woods will begin his summer playing in the Cape Cod League for the Harwich Mariners. He is one of five Bulldogs headed to Cape Cod as that season opens Sunday.
The Bulldogs who toured with the USA Summer Team include pitcher Cris Carpenter (1987), pitcher Dave Fleming (1989), pitcher Brian Powell (1994), catcher Clint Sammons (2002), shortstop Kyle Farmer (2012), pitcher Robert Tyler (2015) and pitcher Cole Wilcox (2019). Wilcox along with pitcher Emerson Hancock (2019) are the most recent Bulldogs invited to a USA CNT summer camp.
Currently, there are 20 Bulldogs scattered throughout the country playing in summer leagues.
Cape Cod League: Corey Collins (Falmouth); Fernando Gonzalez (Yarmouth-Dennis); Parks Harber (Brewster); Liam Sullivan and Jaden Woods (Harwich)
California Collegiate League: Josh Stinson (Santa Barbara)
New England Collegiate Baseball League: Coleman Willis (Sanford)
Northwoods League: Dwight Allen II, DJ Radtke (Wausau); Charlie Condon (St. Cloud)
Sunbelt League: Charlie Goldstein (Alpharetta); Garrett Brown, Collin Caldwell, Bryce Melear (Atlanta); Max DeJong, Trippe Moore III (Gainesville)
Valley League: Chandler Marsh, Garrett Spikes, Cole Wagner, Luke Wagner (Charlottesville)
FOLLOW THE BULLDOGS: For the latest Georgia baseball news, visit www.georgiadogs.com and follow the Bulldogs on Twitter (@BaseballUGA), Facebook (@GeorgiaBaseball) and Instagram (@baseballuga).
Woods, a 6-2, 198-pound left-hander from Warner Robins, Ga., will compete for a spot on the final 26-man USA CNT roster. The camp will feature 48-50 of the premier non-draft eligible college players that will play a five-game intrasquad series in North Carolina from June 30-July 4. All five games of the series will be available to watch on USABaseball.com. The opening game will be held at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C., at 7 p.m. on June 30. The Durham Bulls Athletic Park will host games two, three and four. Games two and four will begin at 6:35 p.m. ET while game three will start at 5:05 p.m. ET. Training camp will conclude with the series finale on July 4 at Truist Field in Charlotte at 6:05 p.m. ET.
USA Baseball will select the final roster after that series. The 26-man squad will represent the United States at Honkbalweek Haarlem in the Netherlands from July 9-15. Team USA will face Japan, Italy, Cuba, the Netherlands, and Curacao during group stage play. The second round will begin July 14 followed by the championship on July 15.
Woods made 25 appearances for the Bulldogs as a sophomore, tallying a 1-1 record, a 4.80 ERA and three saves. He led the team with 80 strikeouts in 54.1 innings pitched while holding opponents to a .227 batting average. He helped Georgia go 36-23 and advance to the NCAA Chapel Hill (N.C.) Regional. He earned Freshman All-SEC honors in 2021 after going 4-1 with a 4.58 ERA and one save in 17 appearances including four starts. Woods will begin his summer playing in the Cape Cod League for the Harwich Mariners. He is one of five Bulldogs headed to Cape Cod as that season opens Sunday.
The Bulldogs who toured with the USA Summer Team include pitcher Cris Carpenter (1987), pitcher Dave Fleming (1989), pitcher Brian Powell (1994), catcher Clint Sammons (2002), shortstop Kyle Farmer (2012), pitcher Robert Tyler (2015) and pitcher Cole Wilcox (2019). Wilcox along with pitcher Emerson Hancock (2019) are the most recent Bulldogs invited to a USA CNT summer camp.
Currently, there are 20 Bulldogs scattered throughout the country playing in summer leagues.
Cape Cod League: Corey Collins (Falmouth); Fernando Gonzalez (Yarmouth-Dennis); Parks Harber (Brewster); Liam Sullivan and Jaden Woods (Harwich)
California Collegiate League: Josh Stinson (Santa Barbara)
New England Collegiate Baseball League: Coleman Willis (Sanford)
Northwoods League: Dwight Allen II, DJ Radtke (Wausau); Charlie Condon (St. Cloud)
Sunbelt League: Charlie Goldstein (Alpharetta); Garrett Brown, Collin Caldwell, Bryce Melear (Atlanta); Max DeJong, Trippe Moore III (Gainesville)
Valley League: Chandler Marsh, Garrett Spikes, Cole Wagner, Luke Wagner (Charlottesville)
FOLLOW THE BULLDOGS: For the latest Georgia baseball news, visit www.georgiadogs.com and follow the Bulldogs on Twitter (@BaseballUGA), Facebook (@GeorgiaBaseball) and Instagram (@baseballuga).
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