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Brooks Kneifl | Nebraska Baseball

So just focusing on one aspect of uh the day at a time , one advice that I give um a high school student trying to get a division one scholarship is , um , you can't really take a day off . Um There's kids out there trying to compete for your spot at a Power Five School and , um , you just gotta be physically ready for it . Um , work your butt off in the weight room , work your hardest every single day .

Brooks Kneifl | Nebraska Baseball

So anything that I throw at them , it's gonna be nothing new to them . So just trying to , just trying to compete and get out is really important in college baseball . I , I've really built a routine and having a schedule , um , in , in college and that's really important to me actually , um , in high school , I really didn't need that .

Brooks Kneifl | Nebraska Baseball

So , like during baseball practice , it's only baseball and then after practice , you can worry about a academics and uh your diet and all that stuff . So just focusing on one aspect of uh the day at a time , one advice that I give um a high school student trying to get a division one scholarship is , um , you can't really take a day off . Um There's kids out there trying to compete for your spot at a Power Five School and , um , you just gotta be physically ready for it .

Brooks Kneifl | Nebraska Baseball

Um , I mean , practices are gonna get long sometimes . Um , but you guys cannot take it for granted and that's one thing that I've really realized in high school coming into college is you can't take a day for granted because there's someone out there trying to get better than you . I'd probably say , uh , don't take any days for granted because high school is very , very calm compared to college and this is not just athletics , it's like every day .

Brooks Kneifl | Nebraska Baseball

And then , um , when I was a junior and senior , I'd probably say I really toned in on uh my mechanics on the mound and my secondary pitches . Um just knowing that I'm gonna be facing really good college hitters , uh playing power five baseball , um just having those secondary pitches to get hitters out in college . So when I was a sophomore , I committed , I was originally committed to the University of uh Kansas State .