And , um , I'm excited to , to be a Northwestern Wildcat for life and , and look back fondly on my time here and , and , you know , the programs and , and the classes of , of Northwestern baseball that comes after me as well . Some advice that I've , I , I've gotten is in the past has been like , hey , if you're good enough , they'll find you . I actually like .
I go to Northwestern University and I'm a baseball player . Probably the best advice has been to make the most of these 4 years and enjoy them . Uh , they fly by a lot more than high school when I was younger , and I think you make some of the best memories , you know , being on a team with , you know , other of your best friends in college , um , and you know , I'm a senior now and I think .
Um , but I think if you have , you know , routines in place , that , that's super helpful for you . Um , I think it , you know , another piece of advice that's helped me in that regard is , um , every day , try to get better . Try to , you know , realize what you need to improve on .
And I think a coach will very easily know if you're strong enough to play Division One baseball , if you're strong enough to be a good fit for the program . Um , so on the one hand , you know , continuing to work every day and to get better , and then from there I , I , I think be proactive , um , you know , a piece of advice I , as I mentioned that I got was , hey , if you're , they're good enough , they'll find you , and I think it's actually not always the case , um , but in today's day and age with social media , you know , with Twitter , um , it's really easy to , you know , put a video out there and get a lot of traction , um , or reach out . You know , through email to college coaches to have a , a highlight reel from kind of your playing days as a high school athlete , um , and I think being , you know , really proactive , reaching out to the schools that you want to go to developing relationships with coaches , um , as early as you can , um , and I think pushing yourself and marketing yourself well through social media when you're , you know , meeting with coaches , I think all goes a long way for developing interest for yourself and .
I know how the adjustment period to college baseball versus high school baseball is . Um , like I , I've done it , and I think , you know , when I was younger , You know , underclassmen , I lean down some of these upperclassmen , um , you know , ask them for feedback , for advice , and , and they helped me get to the point of where I am . Um , and I think once you have that culture in place within the team where it's like , hey , these younger guys are able to rely on these older guys , and , and when I was a younger guy , I was able to do that .
