Softball Canada Announces 2025 U23 Men’s National Team Roster

Softball Canada Announces 2025 U23 Men’s National Team Roster

28 February 2025 Gilles LeBlanc

Ottawa, Ont. – Softball Canada and the U23 Men’s National Team coaching staff are pleased to announce the sixteen (16) athletes who have been selected to represent Canada at the 2025 WBSC U23 Men’s Softball Pan American Championship. The tournament is scheduled to take place May 1-11, 2025, in La Pampa (Santa Rosa), Argentina.  

The roster features four returning players from the previous U23 team that competed in the 2023 WBSC World Cup and finished 5th – Tyler Branchaud (Metcalfe, Ont.), Connor Brooks (Napanee, Ont.), Mason McKay (Tavistock, Ont.) and Reese Yantzi (Shakespeare, Ont.) – as well as ten additional former U18 Men’s National Team athletes: In 2018, Branchaud, Brooks, McKay, YantziRyan Bicknell (Prince Albert, Sask.) Mac Mulvey (Wingham, Ont.) and Matt Weiler (Hepworth, Ont) from 2020, and Adrian Green (Carbonear, N.L.), Alex McGillivray (Durham, Ont.) and Nate Thiessen (Surrey, B.C.) from 2023. McKay and Nick White (Truro, N.S.) were also part of the 2024 WBSC Men’s World Cup Group Stage roster last summer in Prince Albert. 

The 2025 WBSC Americas Pan American Championship will feature athletes born in 2001 or later after the original tournament was postponed in 2024. The event will serve as a qualifier for the 2026 WBSC U23 Men’s Softball World Cup. 

ATHLETES 

FIRST NAME LAST NAME HOMETOWN
Ryan Bicknell Prince Albert, Sask.
Tyler Branchaud Metcalfe, Ont.
Connor Brooks Napanee, Ont.
Adrian Green Carbonear, N.L.
Ryan Maher Petty Harbour, N.L.
Max Major Delisle, Sask.
Will Major Delisle, Sask.
Alex McGillivray Durham, Ont.
Mason McKay Tavistock, Ont.
Mac Mulvey  Wingham, Ont.
Will Schlotzhauer Tavistock, Ont.
Dale Schweyer Fisherville, Ont.
Nate Thiessen Surrey, B.C.
Matt Weiler Hepworth, Ont.
Nick White  Truro, N.S.
Reese Yantzi  Shakespeare, Ont. 

 

COACHING STAFF 

POSITION NAME HOMETOWN
Head Coach Doug Allin Peachland, B.C.
Assistant Coach Bryan Brooks Napanee, Ont. 
Assistant Coach Dan Whiteford Duncan, B.C.
CEO Mike Branchaud Cornwall, Ont.
Manager - Operations Gilles LeBlanc Dieppe, N.B. 

 

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