ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The United States Naval Academy's Stevie Ray (So., Baytown, Texas/John S. Sterling) has been selected to play in the U.S. Men's National Team Trials Series later this month in Santa Ana, Calif. The event will take place March 13-14 at Santa Ana High School.

Athletes chosen from the National Team Trials Series will eventually be placed among the Senior "A", Senior "B" and Junior National Team squads, filling the pipeline of athletes that will make it to the 2012 Olympics in London.

Ray, ranked among the Navy leaders in goals (50, 2nd), assists (23, T-1st), points (73, 2nd) and steals (36, 1st) to raise his career totals to 50 goals and 24 assists for 74 points, already made it through the preliminary tryout process, which took place in several regions across the country last month and trimmed the list of players down to 112 from an initial group of more than 160 competitors.

Next week's National Team Trials Series will feature those 112 athletes divided up over eight teams to showcase their talents. Ray will be a member of the College Mixed team, along with athletes that attend Cal, UC Irvine, Stanford, Pepperdine, UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State. Ray's only East Coast teammate is Howie Kalter of Bucknell University.

The third, and final, round of the National Team Trials Series will take place April 10-11. Athletes will be selected based on their play next week in Santa Ana.