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43-man Olympic shadow squad

All baseball playing States have been represented in the squad with the largest quantity of players coming from New South Wales (16).
Queensland is heavily represented with 10 players, followed by Victoria with seven, South Australian with six, Western Australia with three and our Nation's Capital being represented by one player.

The squad is immensely talented with over 75% being current professional players, with the remaining 25% being ex-professionals.

Team Head Coach Jon Deeble is extremely excited about the strength and depth of the squad and as such is very confident of obtaining a great result at the Olympics.

The 43-man squad will eventually be cut down to the official Olympic team roster of 24 players.

The National team will be playing two Olympic qualifying events in the coming months.

Firstly, they will be playing Guam in the Oceania Championships from 28th January to 1st February 2004.

Should they win that tournament they will play a series against South Africa from 5th to 9th February 2004 at Blacktown, Sydney, with Olympic qualification on the line.