The Medina-based FirstSwing Foundation will host the Hanoi Youth Baseball Club for a week in August.

The 12U team will arrive on August 3 as guests of the foundation and its Youth Klouter baseball teams.

The Hanoi Youth Baseball Club’s trip to the Puget Sound is a part of the Baseball Connect program created by FirstSwing Foundation and Microsoft. For the past two years, executive director Phil Rognier has travelled to Hanoi and Southeast Asia to teach the fundamentals of baseball, provide equipment and instruction manuals, conduct coaches’ and player clinics and to provide leadership in creating Little League, Pony and travel teams for young aspiring ball players.

The Hanoi players wiill stay with various Klouter families and participate in the August 2-6 FirstSwing camp at Phil Johnson Park in Everett as well as other activities to taste the U.S. culture.

FirstSwing has an extensive youth baseball/softball program that provides camps, clinics, tournaments and special activities in the Puget Sound. It has travelled to Portugal, Vietnam, Singapore and other countries to present its unique approach teaching youngsters not just to the game of baseball but also life lessons.

For more details, contact Rognier at phrog38@hotmail.com or see www.firstswingbaseball.org.