Fitzgerald, White Named to U.S. National Junior Camp Roster

December 08, 2015 | Men's Hockey

Freshmen Casey Fitzgerald and Colin White were named to the preliminary roster for the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team. The players will attend training camp Dec. 14-18 at Boston University in Boston followed by an additional camp in Vierumaki, Finland, from Dec. 19-24.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Freshmen Casey Fitzgerald (North Reading, Mass.) and Colin White (Hanover, Mass.) will represent Boston College as two of 29 skaters to be selected for the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team preliminary roster as announced by USA Hockey on Monday, Dec. 7.

Fitzgerald and White will attend training camp Dec. 14-18 at Boston University followed by an additional camp in Vierumaki, Finland, from Dec. 19-24. The final 23-man roster is expected to be named by Dec. 24. Team USA will compete in the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship, Dec.26-Jan.5, in Helsinki, Finland.

Both Fitzgerald are new to the roster as last season, Thatcher Demko, Noah Hanifin, Ian McCoshen, Steve Santini and Alex Tuch were all part of camp and all five Eagles made the club (Santini was held out due to injury).

Fitzgerald and White are two of five Hockey East skaters to make camp, joining Boston University's Brandon Fortunato and Charlie McAvoy alongside Notre Dame's Anders Bjork.

Fitzgerald has posted two goals and nine assists in 15 games played this year on The Heights. He spent two years with USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, then in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team at the 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship.

White, in a current 10-game point streak, leads all rookies in college hockey with eight goals and 23 points. He is fifth, nationally, in scoring, averaging 1.53 points per game through Dec. 6th's contests. He was named the Warrior Hockey East Rookie of the Month and Hockey Commissioner's Association National Rookie of the Month for November. White was a two-year member of the NTDP and scored the gold-medal-winning overtime goal as an alternate captain with the 2015 U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team.

Both Fitzgerald and White are 15 invitees that were part of U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team that won the gold medal.

NOTES
• All practices in Boston will take place at Agganis Arena and are open to the public

• Team USA has medaled in three of the last six IIHF World Junior Championships, winning gold in 2010 and 2013, plus bronze in 2011. The U.S. placed fifth in last year's tournament

• Ron Wilson (Riverside, R.I.) is head coach of the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team. Wilson directed the U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey team to the silver medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, ranks eighth all-time in National Hockey League history in wins, and is the all-time winningest American coach in NHL history

• The assistant coaches for Team USA are Chris Chelios (Chicago, Ill./Detroit Red Wings), Danton Cole (Pontiac, Mich./USA Hockey's National Team Development Program) and Kevin Reiter (Pittsburgh, Pa./USA's Hockey's NTDP)

• At the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship, the U.S. will compete in a group with Canada, Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden. All U.S. games will be broadcast live on NHL Network. For more information about the tournament, please click here

• In August, 42 players attended the 2015 U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp in Lake Placid, New York. Complete details from that camp can be found here.