Dawgs Skipper to Manage Team Alberta

Dawgs' 2004 and 2005 Manager, David Robb, has been named head coach and manager of Team Alberta for the 2006 Canada Cup Showcase. The Canada Cup features elite high school players from each province in a showcase tournament exposing top Canadian players to Major League Baseball scouts as well as US and Canadian college baseball coaches.

It is based on performance and scouting evaluations at the Canada Cup that the premier Canadian athletes are invited to participate in Canada's Junior National Team Program which begins in the spring of each year at the spring training facilities of the Atlanta Braves in Orlando, Florida.

Several former Dawgs' players have played for Team Alberta at the Canada Cup and/or Team Canada including Geoff Freeborn, Vince Ircandia, Jim Henderson, Emerson Frostad, Matt Ircandia, Justin Cardinal, James Avery, Cam McLeod, Jeff MacDonald, Greg Rice, Tanner Osberg, Jeff Werhun, Aric Van Galen,Tahylor Law, Billy Gorrell, Mark Capone, Ryan Omerod, Johnny Yiu, to name a few.

Coach Robb has coached both Team Alberta and Canada's Junior National Team previously and brings an incredibly impressive coaching resume to the manager's position. In addition to his stints with Team Canada and Team Alberta, Coach Robb has coached professionally with both the Visalia Oaks, Single A affiliate of the Oakland A's in the California League as well as clubs in the premier Italian Professional League; and collegiately with all of Mesa Arizona Community College (where his clubs participated in two NCAA Juco World Series), the Dawgs, (managing the club in 2004 to an undefeated playoff run and the 2004 WMBL Championship) and in the summer of 2006, the Kelowna Falcons of the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League.

Coach Robb was deservedly named WMBL Coach of the Year in 2004. The young players privileged to play on Team Alberta in 2006 could not have a better coach to instruct them in developing their baseball skills for the next level.

Dawgs extend congratulations to Coach Robb and look forward to seeing him back in a Dawgs' uniform in 2007!