2016 South Texas / Louisiana Region USA Baseball NTIS Program
"Your Region This Year, Your Country Next"
2016 South Texas / Louisiana NTIS Selection Tournament
July 23-24 at
Premier Baseball
20230 Cypress Rosehill Rd
Tomball, TX 77377
All inviteed players need to Click Here to register for the tournament.
Check in for the selection tournament will be at 9:00AM. Players will be put on teams to play games and evaluated for selection to the South Texas/Louisiana Regional team that will attend the NTIS tournament in August at the USA Baseball National Traning Center in Cary, NC.
Depending on the # of teams in a given age division, games will be played at 11am and 3pm on Saturday and if needed, 10am on Sunday. Teams will be chosen on Sunday night and posted on this website on Monday, July 25th.
2016 USA Baseball National Teams Identification Series (NTIS)
TBD 13U National Team Identification Series Cary, N.C.
TBD 17U/16U National Team Identification Series Cary, N.C.
TBD 14U/11U/Women’s National Team Identification Series Cary, N.C.
Here are the date cutoffs for each age:
• 2016 17U NTIS: born on or after Jan. 1, 1999, for the 2017 18U NT
• 2016 16U NTIS: born on or after Jan. 1, 2000, for the 2017 17U NTDP
• 2016 14U NTIS: born on or after Jan. 1, 2002, for the 2017 15U NT
• 2016 13U NTIS: born on or after Jan. 1, 2003, for the 2017 14U NTDP
• 2016 11U NTIS: born on or after Jan. 1, 2005, for the 2017 12U NT
American Elite Baseball Championship- (Formerly 13U NTIS)
In partnership with Major League Baseball, we are happy to announce that this year's
13U NTIS will now be known as the American Elite Baseball Championship. While
regional identification events for this year's teams will remain the same, teams from
fifteen USA Baseball regions across the country, as well as one RBI Program team,
will compete against each other in a championship-style, single-elimination tournament.
All teams are guaranteed four, seven-inning games with some games being streamed
on MLB.com.
Texas / Louisiana NTIS Program
The NTIS program is one of the primary ways that USA Baseball picks players to
participate in their national program and for possible selection to the USA National
team and international play. The Texas / Louisiana region has set up several tryouts
for players in the region. Information on tryout dates can be viewed by clicking the
link below on this page. The South Texas / Louisiana region will have it's selection
tryout on July 23-24, 2016 at
Premier Baseball Academy
20230 Cypresss Rosehill Road
Tomball, TX 77377
South Texas / Louisiana is responsible for putting together teams from this region in
ages 11, 13, 14, 16 and 17U. Players wishing to tryout for the South Texas / Louisiana
Region team must register thru USA Baseball for one of the several tryouts posted in
the region. From the players trying out, our directors will invite up to 72 players in
each age to come to the selection tryout on July 23-24 at Premier Baseball. The fee to
tryout thru USA Baseball is $125.00/player and that is paid to USA Baseball when
you register for the tryout. To view the tryout information and to register
CLICK HERE.
To learn more about the NTIS program CLICK HERE.
South Texas / Louisiana Directors:
Earl Luckett
Hondo Medellin
Micah Bowie
James Gamble
Ron Mathis
Keep checking the website as more tryouts will be posted for Texas and Louisiana.
