The best women’s baseball team in Europe will qualify for the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup and compete For the Title of World Champion. The next Women’s Baseball World Cup is scheduled for 2020.

After 15 seasons with the program, that has included participation in all eight Women’s Baseball World Cups and the 2015 Pan American Games, Kate Psota and Ashley Stephenson are retiring as players from the Women’s National Team.

Australia Baseball Hall of Famer Simone Wearne stepped down as Emeralds manager after a six-year tenure as Women’s Baseball Australia National Team manager, and three World Cup campaigns

World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Baseball World Cup® umpire Po Chun Liu was awarded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women and Sport World Trophy, the highest distinction that the IOC bestows in the category

The two veterans were on the original Canadian National Team during the first ever Women’s Baseball World Cup, that the North American Country hosted back in 2004. Stephenson will join the coaching staff