Life comes with many wins and many losses the longer you live. One of the greatest things about sports is the fact that they teach you countless life lessons. Whether it comes from a workout, a practice, or a game, you are constantly growing on and off of the field with your friends and your teammates.

Little things like this are things that you will never forget, and will always cherish. Without the game of baseball, I would never be able to have things like this and moments like this that I will never forget. Baseball has changed so many lives, but playing baseball at William Peace University has really changed my life for the better.

My Freshman year at William Peace started out halfway through the year, as I transferred in for the spring semester. This was impactful in many ways, but the most it impacted me was how much I really grew up in the few months that I was still a freshman. It made me realize how big of a transition I was beginning to make in life.

I learned so much from the coaches and players that I met at Peace. The coaches taught me what it meant to grow up. I was put into multiple pressure situations within conference games, winning some and losing some. We lost a heartbreaker down in Georgia where my name was in the loss column after the game ended.

We ended up playing at home later that year against former nationally ranked Pfeiffer. It was a Saturday night, and we were ahead going into the 9th inning. Coach Dylan Pfingst looked at me and said, “Go win me a damn ball game.” I will never forget that moment, and it is the moment I feel like everything changed. I was on the mound while defeating Pfeiffer.

My sophomore year came around, and although the season ended early, it came with so many memories than the year before. I was able to win USA South Pitcher of the Week, I was able to be on the mound for 4 of our team’s 12 wins. I was able to pitch a complete game shutout, something I had never done in college. This was the result.

This was the game that changed my pitching career. This is the moment that I knew that I had arrived in the college sports world. This photo is of me high fiving my best friend, Jackson May. We high fived knowing it was a huge moment in both of our lives, and it was a moment that won’t be forgotten.

I was honored to see that there was an article written about my from GoPeacePacers.com about winning USA South Pitcher of the Week. See it here

The season ended quite early, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t teach me anything. It made me value the game of baseball even more, and appreciate the little things in life even more. If you don’t enjoy something you love while you have it, what is the point in having it at all?

The game has really taught me to wake up and “smell the roses.” I have really been working hard on that tangible aspect of life for a long time, but now that the game has been seemingly ripped out of my hands, I have began to realize what the true meaning of that saying is.

When you spend every hour of every single day either practicing, working out, worrying about the game, or actually playing the game, and it gets ripped from you, it really hurts. It really opens your eyes. There were so many tears shed by not just the players, but the coaches at the end of the year. Everything that was worked so hard for was ripped from us.

The game may break your heart, it may rip you to pieces, but it will always make you stronger. It will always make you more thankful for what you have, on and off of the field. This is definitely top 3 most impactful things that baseball has ever done to me, and where else would it happen? Besides here in the Capital, at Capital Sports.

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