The One Tip to Playing College Baseball

The One Tip to Playing College Baseball

The one advice I can give for making it to college, and signing for baseball, or any sport actually, is being not only competitive at the plate or on the mound, but competing in academics too. Athletics can be and edge to get into amazing colleges if the academics are there, but sports alone doesn't get you a college degree. For example, two students, one with a slightly higher SAT score than the other, will both apply to a top-notch school. The student with the lower SAT score plays baseball, and is a good player, that college is going to take the not-as-smart student just because he can swing a bat. However, being a baseball player isn't enough. A high school student can throw 97mph, but if he has a 2.2 GPA and another student, an average player, has a 4.8 GPA, the latter will sign first.

I am lucky enough to be well rounded and skilled in athletic, academics, and fine arts. This video, http://www.youtube.com/embed/Hu7HTKJ7BUk , shows a compilation of my greatest accomplishments, and my overall best accomplishment, which is being well rounded, and this is what has allowed me to receive recruitment letters from hundreds of colleges. I have been told by the scouts themselves that baseball is what they see when they watch me play, but my transcript is what bring them to watch in the first place.