COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball RHP Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) has accepted an invitational to play with USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team for the second consecutive summer, as announced Monday by Mizzou head coach Tim Jamieson and USA Baseball. Houck, a Preseason All-American and Preseason All-SEC pick, spent last summer with the Collegiate National Team and he is the first Mizzou player to earn a spot on the team twice.

Houck is 2-1 with a 1.64 ERA this season and has struck out 24 batters over 22.0 innings, walking just four batters. He was a consensus Freshman All-American in 2015 after going 8-5 with a 3.49 ERA while pitching more innings than any other freshman in college baseball at the end of the regular season. His eight wins were the most by any Tiger pitcher since 2011 and the most for any a Mizzou freshman since Kyle Gibson in 2008.

He was sensational with Team USA a year ago, earning USA Baseball’s International Performance of the Year for starting and throwing four perfect innings in a combined no-hitter against Cuba. In all, he Houck Team USA starters in ERA (2.16) and led the team in innings pitched (16.2) and strikeouts (14) while limiting batters to just .213 hitting and owning a 14-1 strikeout-walk ratio.

USA Baseball will release the full team throughout the course of the spring and competition will begin this summer.

— Mizzou Athletics —