INSEP baseball impresses

Jonathan Weaver, a sixteen-year-old from Maryland who holds both American and French citizenship, is a member of France's Junior National Team which competed at last year's U16 European Championships in the Netherlands. He will be moving to France this summer and will be training at the French National Institute of the Sports and Physical Education.

His father, Scott Weaver, is impressed by the level of baseball training at INSEP:

"I was blown away with the level of competition," said Scott Weaver, who played college baseball and who is a pilot for American Airlines. "They ran it like a college program or even a single-A or double-A minor-league team. The on-campus [facilities] houses 9,000 students. They've been playing baseball in France for 20 years. They're more into baseball than you think."

At INSEP, Weaver will be working toward his French Baccalaureate, but may eventually go back to the the United States or Canada to play college ball.