The Americans dominated last year’s qualifying tournament to advance to the 2024 WBSC World Cup.
THUNDER BAY – To say that the United States was the team to beat at last year’s Group A qualifier for the World Baseball Softball Conference Women’s Baseball World Cup would be a massive understatement.
“We’re not underestimating anybody, but we’re more confident in the sense of trusting our process and trusting what we are doing on a day-to-day basis,” United States manager Veronica Alvarez said after a pre-tournament press conference at Lakehead University on Saturday afternoon.The United States team features 17 players that were in Thunder Bay last summer.
“When all 20 of us are locked in, we don’t see each other’s age and we don’t necessarily see our skill sets.After winning the first two editions of the World Cup in 2004 and 2006, the Americans haven’t hoisted the trophy since. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a six-year wait between tournaments, which has allowed the Americans to go about constructing their roster the way that they’ve wanted to.
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