Taoyuan Angels Baseball Camp starts, inviting professional baseball stars to coach 250 grassroots players

After Taiwan won the world championship in the 2024 "World Top 12 Baseball Championship", the Taoyuan City Government continued to deepen the development of grassroots baseball. Entering its second year, the "Taoyuan City Baseball Angel Project-Level 3 Baseball Training Camp" held an opening ceremony today (10th) at the Pingzhen Baseball Stadium. This year, a total of 22 schools and 250 people participated in the training, mainly from Taoyuan Baseball Key Development Schools.

Last year, the Taoyuan City Government invested 10 million yuan to establish the "Baseball Angel Fund" to promote grassroots baseball training in three years. The first year of implementation received an enthusiastic response. This year entered the second year. The opening ceremony was hosted by Mayor Zhang Shanzheng and the General Manager of the Baseball Committee of the Taoyuan City Sports Association. Zhang Cangbin, Vice Chairman of the Baseball Committee Lin Limin, professional baseball legend Zhang Taishan, Lotte Peach Players Lin Li, Chen Chenwei, Taiwan Steel Eagles player Huang Zipeng, CITIC Brothers player Jiang Kunyu and others attended, gathering with teachers, coaches and outstanding students from each school.

Zhang Shanzheng said that the Angel Project Level 3 baseball training camp hopes to provide opportunities for students who are interested in baseball. In addition to the budget of the city government and the efforts of parents and students, special thanks to Taoyuan baseball promoter Zhang Cangbin and Taoyuan City Sports Association Baseball Committee Chairman Yang Jiali for their support and assistance. This year, Yang Jiali donated professional baseball training equipment with a market price of 2 million yuan to strengthen supplies for grassroots schools. He also encouraged the students present to cherish resources, seize the opportunity of personal guidance from professional baseball stars, study hard and break through themselves during the training camp.

The Education Bureau stated that this training camp plans to have two levels: the Little League group and the Youth Baseball and Youth Baseball groups. The Little League group successfully concluded on October 30. Today is the first day of training for the Youth Baseball and Youth Baseball groups. The trainees are all elite players from Taoyuan City’s key baseball development schools. In order to provide students with the most professional guidance, a number of professional baseball star players and outstanding university coaches are invited to form a top-notch teaching staff, which injects growth momentum through the inheritance of practical experience.

The Education Bureau stated that in addition to improving golf skills, the curriculum comprehensively introduces diverse fields such as sports protection concepts, player career planning, court etiquette, and moral education to help players establish complete and correct sports concepts and become outstanding talents with both moral character and modern sports knowledge.

In addition, today's event specially commended the outstanding players from Pingzhen High School and Nankan High School. They represented our country in Dhaka, the capital of Senegal, to participate in the "4th Dhaka Youth Olympic Games in 2026". They passed the "5-a-side baseball" event that was included in the official competition for the first time, faced the traditional strong enemy Cuba in the gold medal game, and finally won the silver medal.