UC Davis Baseball
My family jokes around about me saying "If you ever want Justin to do something, just tell him he can't do it". For some odd reason, I find extreme self-motivation in proving people wrong. I can't tell you how many people have told me that I was too small and would never play Division 1 baseball. Or how many people have told me that I can't play baseball and go to school for engineering at the same time, that I would have to choose one or the other. Or how many people told me that building a four-wheel-drive baja car with traction control in our first year of competition was too ambitious. Or that my start-up was not going to make it and I needed a job with an sustainable income.
Pretty quickly you realize, that all my success highlighted in this website is directly correlated to this. I like to take the "Impossible" and make it Possible. And I find what I want and give it my absolute everything.
Now onto my baseball journey...
Pretty quickly you realize, that all my success highlighted in this website is directly correlated to this. I like to take the "Impossible" and make it Possible. And I find what I want and give it my absolute everything.
Now onto my baseball journey...
At the end of my baseball career in a gathering for the Seniors that would no longer be back for another season with the baseball team, My coach spoke these words about my character:
"I want everyone to take a look at Justin... How tall are you Justin? How much do you weigh? Do you hit for power? Are you abnormally fast? Do you have an extraordinary arm?" With my answer to all these questions being some sort of no, he continued with another question... "How does a player that is five foot nothing, a hundred and nothing pounds, with no talent have success on the field at this level?" At that moment, my coach pointed straight to my heart. He then spoke about the fight, the desire, and the passion... the heart that drives my hard work. He said that because of these traits, I will be successful in life, no matter what I do.
What you don't know is I was almost cut from the baseball team twice throughout my career at Davis. I never quite let them go through with it as I got better and better. I finished my senior year as the top hitter on the baseball team and after that senior banquet I had parents coming up to me telling me how I inspired their sons. It was one of the most proud days of my life. I even had such an impact on the team that the head coach asked me to continue to be a part of the team as an assistant coach.
Below Is a document summarizing my season with stats and articles. I encourage you to go through it and highlight my name.
"I want everyone to take a look at Justin... How tall are you Justin? How much do you weigh? Do you hit for power? Are you abnormally fast? Do you have an extraordinary arm?" With my answer to all these questions being some sort of no, he continued with another question... "How does a player that is five foot nothing, a hundred and nothing pounds, with no talent have success on the field at this level?" At that moment, my coach pointed straight to my heart. He then spoke about the fight, the desire, and the passion... the heart that drives my hard work. He said that because of these traits, I will be successful in life, no matter what I do.
What you don't know is I was almost cut from the baseball team twice throughout my career at Davis. I never quite let them go through with it as I got better and better. I finished my senior year as the top hitter on the baseball team and after that senior banquet I had parents coming up to me telling me how I inspired their sons. It was one of the most proud days of my life. I even had such an impact on the team that the head coach asked me to continue to be a part of the team as an assistant coach.
Below Is a document summarizing my season with stats and articles. I encourage you to go through it and highlight my name.
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