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PG Select Baseball Festival  | General | 2/4/2025

'25 Select Fest Dates & Locations Reveal

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

 

PERFECT GAME ANNOUNCES 2025 SELECT FESTS 

 

Sanford, Florida (Tuesday, February 4, 2025) - Perfect Game, the world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, today announced the dates and locations for the 2025 Select Festivals, an annual series of marquee events showcasing the top young baseball talent from across the country. These highly anticipated events will once again serve as a platform for rising baseball stars to demonstrate their skills. 

 

Now in its historic 10th season, the 14U Select Festival will take place August 28-31 at its longtime home of JetBlue Park in Ft. Myers, Fla. The 14U Select Festival kicked off the annual slate of events for Perfect Game in 2016 at the Spring Training home of the Boston Red Sox, where it has remained since then. Since its inception, four 14U Select Fest alumni have made their MLB debuts: Dylan Crews, Victor Mederos, Jordan Lawlar and Carlos Rodriguez.  

 

Returning for the second straight year to the University of Virginia on Davenport Field at Disharoon Park, the seventh annual 13U Select Festival will be held August 21-24. In last year’s MLB Draft, four first-round selections were 13U Select Festival alumni: Konnor Griffin (ninth, Pittsburgh), Theo Gillen (18th, Tampa Bay), Cam Caminiti (24th, Atlanta) and Slade Caldwell (29th, Arizona). 

 

The 12U (August 8-10) and 11U (August 7-9) Select Festivals will overlap at the East Cobb Complex in Marietta, Ga. The 12U event is now in its sixth season while the 11U event is celebrating its fifth year.  

 

All Select Festival games will be streamed live at PerfectGame.TV and on the free PGTV app, allowing fans worldwide to follow the action of future generations of baseball stars. As always, the events will feature high-level competition, memorable experiences for the players and the chance to perform in front of scouts, coaches and an international audience. 

 

“The Select Fests are the ultimate celebration of youth baseball excellence, and we’re excited to once again bring these events to these great venues,” said Jheremy Brown, Director of 13U and 14U Select Festivals. “From the storied East Cobb Complex to the major league amenities of JetBlue Park, these events offer young athletes the opportunity to shine on a grand stage.” 

 

Perfect Game will release additional details about the 2025 Select Fests in the coming months. For updates, including player rosters, coaches, schedules and streaming information, visit PerfectGame.org and PG’s social media channels. 

  

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Greg Casterioto / Gcasterioto@perfectgame.org / (267) 246-5709 

 

 

About Perfect Game 

 

Perfect Game is the world’s largest elite youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, producing over 9,800+ events, hundreds of thousands of games, and showcases each year across the country. Perfect Game is dedicated to giving amateur players exposure to take their game to the next level, whether that be in college or in the professional ranks. At Perfect Game events, players are performing with top-level competition in front of college recruiters and professional scouts from all over the country. Because of this, these events prove to be invaluable to college coaches as well as Major League Baseball, as they can scout a large population of talented ballplayers in one location. To date, more than 2,210 players that have played in a Perfect Game event have also played in Major League Baseball. Since 2003, 15,134 Perfect Game alumni have been selected in the MLB First-Year Amateur Player Draft. In the 2023 Draft, for example, 95 percent of all players selected had played in Perfect Game events, and every player selected on the Draft’s first day had previously attended Perfect Game events. 

 

 


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