Blue Jays add national women’s team veteran Stephenson to coaching staff in Vancouver

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Published 18.01.2023

Blue Jays add national women’s team veteran Stephenson to coaching staff in Vancouver

Ashley Stephenson, a long-time participant and coach with Canada’s ladies’s baseball group, is becoming a member of the Toronto Blue Jays group as a coach.

Stephenson has been added to the Vancouver Canadian’s teaching workers for the upcoming Minor League Baseball season. The Canadians are the Blue Jays’ High-A affiliate and are at present the one MiLB group primarily based in Canada.

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Stephenson, 40, spent 15 years as a participant with Canada’s nationwide group, serving to Canada win three bronze and one silver medal on the Women’s Baseball World Cup and silver on the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games.

After ending her enjoying profession, she joined Canada as a coach in 2019 and helped the group to a bronze medal on the Women’s Pan-American Championships that 12 months.

In 2022, she turned the primary lady to handle the ladies’s nationwide group program when Canada performed a five-game collection in opposition to the United States in Thunder Bay, Ont.

She turned the primary lady to teach on the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase in Ottawa in September.

She was the primary lady to seize Baseball Canada’s Lionel Ruhr Elite Coach of the Year Award in November.

A two-sport athlete, the native of Mississauga, Ont., additionally performed hockey within the National Women’s Hockey League and its successor, the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, from 2005 to 2012.

“I am really excited for this opportunity,” Stephenson stated in a launch. “I’ve loved baseball and the Blue Jays since I was three years old, and never really imagined that I’d be able to have a career in the game let alone with my favourite team.”