There was never an official start date to my recruiting process. There was no big announcement to the world stating that I was now seeking offers for scholarships, nor was there a big ceremony when the clock struck midnight on an idle Tuesday, signaling my start of the recruiting process. …
Having a poor diet while at college is as easy and common as the cold. “The Freshman Fifteen” was coined for a reason. Low budgets, easy access to hamburgers and fries (long live the dining hall and parent-funded point plans that act as money), and all night study sessions of …
Throughout high school, I was a dead pull hitter. I never understood why pitchers kept feeding me fastballs on the inner half, but they kept doing it and so I kept hitting them. Occasionally I’d get some breaking balls and outside pitches, but by taking most and occasionally hitting some …
After 200+ college games, I found myself playing in an NCAA Regional against the number 29 ranked team in the nation, George Mason. We had no business winning that game but on this random day in baseball little Binghamton University from Upstate New York was the better team. I was …
People say you will never forget your first; that it can never be replicated quite the same. I remember my first time. I was 11 years old, just a boy, but my first official collegiate one was a memory I will forever remember… It was a fastball left out and …
Me and some of the other guys on the team used to joke during the “bad times” about the “96% rule”. Quite simply it stated that 96% of the time our lives sucked. We were either running, or studying, or picking up baseballs in the cage or striking out for …
I will never forget the nervousness running through my body at the hotel the morning of my first college game. We were in Delaware in early March and the snow piles in the parking lot were an early indicator that it was going to be a cold weekend. We arrived …
When getting recruited, what were you looking for from a program? I was looking for a school that met my academic, social, and athletic criteria. I had to ignore how pretty the campus was and/or where the school was located because these things were not as important to me. If …
