NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Vanderbilt baseball duo of Enrique Bradfield Jr. and Carter Holton have been named to the final 26-man roster for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, USA Baseball announced Tuesday.
The final squad was named after the completion of the 2022 Collegiate National Team Training Camp—a five-game intrasquad series played across the state of North Carolina.
Seventeen schools have players on the 2022 Collegiate National Team roster, and Vanderbilt is one of five programs to boast multiple student-athletes on the team. The others are Florida State, LSU, Ole Miss and Wake Forest.
Team USA will travel to the Netherlands on Wednesday and begin Honkbalweek Haarlem on Saturday. They open against Japan at 7 a.m. CT and then have games against Italy, Cuba, the Netherlands and Curacao to complete group play. All games will be streamed at HonkbalSoftbal.tv.
The U.S. has competed at Honkbalweek Haarlem five times since 2000 and has earned four gold medals, including winning the championship in 2014, its most recent appearance at the event. Team USA also won gold in the event’s 2000, 2002 and 2008 editions and earned a bronze medal in 2012.
Including the selections of Bradfield and Holton, Vanderbilt has had 27 players on USA Baseball Collegiate National Teams—the second-most among SEC programs. Most recently, Austin Martin and Tyler Brown played on the Collegiate National Team in the summer of 2019.
