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National-Best 21 From ACC Head to USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp

CARY, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference will send a nation’s best 21 student-athletes to Cary, North Carolina, to compete in the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp. The student-athletes will compete in a five-game Stars vs. Stripes intrasquad series. The 2025 roster features 56 primarily non-draft-eligible players from across college baseball.
 
The first game of the series will be held on June 29, at Atrium Health Ballpark in Kannapolis, North Carolina, at 5:35 p.m. ET. The next three games will be played from June 30-July 2 at USA Baseball’s National Training Complex in Cary, with first pitch of each game set for 6:30 p.m. ET. The series finale will be hosted at Segra Stadium in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 3, at 6:35 p.m. ET. The 2025 Collegiate National Team will be named on July 4 following the conclusion of Training Camp.

That squad will compete in the 45th USA vs. Japan Collegiate All-Star Championship Series from July 8-13 at various locations across Japan. The remaining players from the Collegiate National Team Training Camp will make up a Collegiate National Team Prospects squad that will play in a Fourth of July game against the Appalachian League Select Team at Atrium Health Ballpark in Kannapolis at 6:35 p.m. ET.

Fourteen USA Baseball alumni appear on this year’s Training Camp roster, including 11 players from last year’s Collegiate National Team. Eric Becker (Virginia), Drew Burress (Georgia Tech), Daniel Cuvet (Miami), Jason DeCaro (North Carolina), Jacob Dudan (NC State), AJ Gracia (Virginia), Kyle Johnson (Virginia), Brett Renfrow (Virginia Tech), and Zion Rose (Louisville) all represented the stars and stripes last year. The group is set make their return to Training Camp to once again vie for a spot on Team USA.

Overall, 32 schools and 10 conferences are represented on the 2025 Training Camp roster. Virginia is tied with Arkansas to lead all schools with four players each on the 56-man roster, while Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, and NC State follow with three each. The ACC boasts 22 athletes on the roster to lead all conferences, followed by the SEC with 12 and the Big 12 with eight.

2025 ACC Collegiate National Team Training Camp Invitees
Cameron Bagwell - RHP - Wake Forest
Myles Bailey - INF - Florida State
Trey Beard - LHP - Florida State
*Eric Becker - INF – Virginia
*Drew Burress - OF - Georgia Tech
AJ Ciscar - RHP - Miami
*Daniel Cuvet - INF - Miami
Tague Davis - INF - Louisville
*Jason DeCaro - RHP - North Carolina
*Jacob Dudan - RHP - NC State
*AJ Gracia - OF - Virginia
Alex Hernandez - INF - Georgia Tech
*Kyle Johnson - OF/LHP – Virginia
Vahn Lackey - C - Georgia Tech
Ryan Lynch - RHP - North Carolina
Ryan Marohn - LHP - NC State
Lucas Moore - OF - Louisville
Blake Morningstar - RHP - Wake Forest
Anderson Nance - RHP - NC State
*Brett Renfrow - RHP - Virginia Tech
*Zion Rose - OF – Louisville

* USA Baseball alum