DURHAM, N.C. ?- Wichita State baseball student-athlete Dusty Coleman has been invited to the 2008 USA Baseball National Team Trials held June 11-23 throughout the northeast and southeast United States. At the conclusion of the trials, on June 24, 22 players will be selected for the National Team roster.

Coleman, a sophomore shortstop from Sioux Falls, S.D., hit .314 with 53 runs, 75 hits, 19 doubles, two triples, eight home runs, 71 RBI and 13 stolen bases for the Shockers in 2008.

USA Baseball's 2008 National Team schedule includes a six-game friendship series against Chinese Taipei and a month-long trip to Europe where the team will compete in the Haarlem Baseball Week in the Netherlands and the IV FISU World Collegiate Baseball Championship in the Czech Republic.

The 2008 USA Baseball National Team will be led by Oral Roberts University head coach Rob Walton, who served as an assistant coach for the 2005 National Team. Walton is joined on the 2008 staff by pitching coach Jerry Meyers (head coach, Old Dominion University), assistant coach Nino Giarratano (head coach, University of San Francisco), and assistant coach Ritch Price (head coach, University of Kansas).