“…I am not afraid to take a bruise if it will keep the ball off of the screen.” – Derek Arsenie
SASKATOON, SK, CANADA – Ask any athlete in the world and most will say that representing their country in international competition is the ultimate honor. And that goes for Derek Arsenie as well.
Arsenie is a 19-year-old catcher on the 40-man roster of Canada’s Senior Men’s National Team pool. He aspires to help lead his country to the gold medal in the International Softball Federation XIII World Championships in 2013.
“My goal is to make the team and contribute in anyway possible towards winning a gold medal at the next ISF worlds,” Arsenie said. “If fastball gets into the Olympics in 2020 I hope to make the national team again and win the Olympics, but there is a lot of work to do to get to these goals.”