JACKSON, Miss.- Jackson State University head baseball coach Omar Johnson has been selected to assist USA Baseball during the Collegiate National Team training camp for international competition.

The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp will feature 56 of the premier non-draft eligible college players for a four-game Stars vs. Stripes intra-squad series in Cary, North Carolina from June 23–29. Johnson will coach the Stripes team and help USA Baseball in naming a final, 26-man Collegiate National Team roster that will represent the United States in the friendship series against Chinese Taipei and Japan later this summer.
 
This is the second straight year Johnson has coached with USA Baseball. Last August, he was a part of the new 13U / 14U Athlete Development Program.

About the SWAC
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is considered one of the premier HBCU conferences in the country and currently ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of HBCU alumni playing with professional sports teams.
 
Current championship competition offered by the league includes competition for men in Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, and Tennis.

Women’s competition is offered in the sports of Basketball, Bowling, Cross Country, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, and Volleyball.
 
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