Texas Tech's Hudson White receives an invitation to USA Baseball Collegiate National Team training camp

Texas Tech's Hudson White received an invitation Monday to participate in the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team training camp.

White, who has started at catcher and first base, is the 11th Red Raider to earn an invitation from USA Baseball and the first Jace Jung netted one last year. Josh Jung (2018) and Steven Gingery (2017) played in back-to-back years.

At the end of the regular season, White is hitting at a .266 clip with 39 RBI and six home runs in 41 games played — including 37 starts.

Back in 1997, catcher Josh Bard and right-handed hurler Monty Ward played for the team, while Larry Hays served as an assistant coach. The next year, Bard joined RHP Shane Weight on the squad, as outfielder Miles Durham was also selected for the team. Outfielder Roger Kieschnick was named to the summer squad in 2006 & 2007, while RHP Chad Bettis pitched for the stars & stripes in 2009.

The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp is set to feature 48-50 of the premier non-draft eligible college players for a five-game Stars vs. Stripes intrasquad series in North Carolina from June 30–July 4.

USA Baseball will name a final, 26-man Collegiate National Team roster after Training Camp that will represent the United States at Honkbalweek Haarlem in the Netherlands from July 9–15.

The opening game of the Stars vs. Stripes series is slated for 6 p.m. June 30 at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina.

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Texas Tech (36-18) is slated to begin its journey in the Big 12 Conference Tournament with a 4 p.m. Wednesday opening game against Kansas State (27-27) at Globe Life Field in Arlington.

Texas Tech women's basketball

Former Lady Raider great Alesha Robertson-Ellis and former assistant coach/chief of staff Larry Tidwell were inducted into the TABC Hall of Fame on Saturday.

A former standout under Lady Raider head coach and Hall of Famer Marsha Sharp, Robertson-Ellis was an All-Big 12 second team selection in 2006-07. An All-Big 12 Freshman Team selection and two-time honorable mention honoree, Robertson-Ellis scored 1,571 points, the eighth most in program history.

Fifth all-time in 3-point field goals made and the single-game record-holder for 3-pointers made (9), Robertson-Ellis made a successful transition to college coaching having spent the last nine seasons as a head coach.

Robertson-Ellis spent the previous eight seasons at Wayland Baptist, earning four Sooner Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Coach of the Year awards. Last June, Robertson-Ellis resigned from Wayland to accept the head coach position at Angelo State.

Inheriting a team that went just 1-13 during the COVID-19 Pandemic shortened season, Robertson-Ellis led the Rambelles' to an impressive 15-13 recording including a 12-4 Lonestar Conference mark.

She is married to former Texas Tech men's basketball player Andy Ellis, who currently serves as her assistant coach.

The second TABC honoree is former assistant coach/chief of staff, Larry Tidwell. Tidwell spent one season in Lubbock after a decorated career coaching throughout the State of Texas at schools like Lamar and UTRGV.

Tidwell retired after spending the last two seasons at the helm of Dallas Christian College's women's basketball program.

Track and field

The women’s Texas Tech track and field team jumped to No. 2 in the country, while the men’s side moved to No. 6 in the latest installment of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll released Monday.

It’s the second time in program history the women's team was ranked No. 2. Tech started the first week of the 2022 outdoor campaign ranked second, which is also its highest ranking ever.

The Red Raiders are set to compete Wednesday through Saturday in the NCAA West Prelim Regionals in Fayetteville, Ark.

The women lead the country heading into the meet with the most entries at 36. Meanwhile, Callie Jones automatically punched her ticket to the NCAA Championships as she is fifth in the country in points (5,864) when it comes to the heptathlon.

The decathlon and heptathlon are not contested at the regionals so the top 24 marks in the country are selected for next month's meet in Eugene, Ore.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech's Hudson White receives an invitation to USA Baseball Collegiate National Team training camp