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March gets national invitation

Baseball Canada unveiled its list of 26 athletes invited to participate at the women’s national baseball team selection camp this week, and Burnaby’s Emma March is there.
Emma March
In 2014, Burnaby’s Emma March garnered national and international attention after playing a key role in her team’s run to the Little League World Series. At the time, she was one of just 18 girls ever to have played in the historic tournament.

Baseball Canada unveiled its list of 26 athletes invited to participate at the women’s national baseball team selection camp this week, and Burnaby’s Emma March is there.

She’ll spend the next week in Montreal working out with the other players with an aim to be among the final 20 selected to represent Canada at the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s Women’s Baseball World Cup in Florida, Aug. 22 to 31.

A member of the B.C. Badgers women’s team that played a regular slate of games in the Lower Mainland Baseball League’s over-45 men’s division this past spring in preparation for the national championships, March has been part of national development camps in the past, including the girls baseball development camp held in Cuba last February.

Upon getting the invitation for the Cuba camp, the 16-year-old was excited to be taking another step towards realizing her goal, as she told Baseball Canada.

“My goal for the 2018 season is to make it onto the women’s national team,” said March. “I’d love to have the opportunity to play with them (at the World Cup) in Florida and I believe that hard work, practice and this Cuba camp will help me achieve my goal.”

March has continued to chase her dream of representing Canada on the baseball diamond since playing a big part, along with twin brother Evan, in South Vancouver’s march to the Little League World Series in 2014. She garnered international attention at that tournament, being one of just 18 girls to ever play in the World Series tournament.

In Montreal, the players will play exhibition games against teams from Baseball Quebec’s midget AAA program at Gary Carter Stadium. A final roster will be announced later this week.