I committed to play at Salt Lake Community College in January of 2019, which was my senior year of high school. I started playing there in August of that year. I played second base in high school but decided I wanted to be a shortstop in college. I did play shortstop for most of the fall season but I would also play outfield, third base, and first base. My freshman year they redshirted me because I wasn’t playing very good. But it didn’t mean much because that spring in 2020 COVID hit and cancelled the season and moved all the classes to online.

I moved home in February of 2020 and even though the season was cancelled, and everything was shut down, I still managed to put in the work in the weight room and on the field. I got a call from my coach in April saying that he was going to start a summer league in June, but we would have to wear masks on the field and get tested for covid once a week. I moved up there in June and played throughout the summer. I played shortstop and did really well and I was thinking going into the fall that I was going to be the starting shortstop. I was completely wrong.

The Fall of 2020 came around and for some reason I lost all motivation to keep playing baseball. I got covid in October and we were quarantined for 2 weeks. After those two weeks were up, one of my roommates tested positive for COVID and we were quarantined for another 2 weeks. The whole month of October I didn’t play or practice baseball. We went home at the end of November and came back on January 8, 2021 and two weeks later we traveled to Arizona. I didn’t play in the games at all from January to March. I then decided that in the middle of March that I wanted to stop playing baseball and come to St. George. We played at College of Southern Idaho one weekend in March and they didn’t take me on the trip. I thought long and hard about if I wanted to keep playing and decided I wanted to hang up the cleats. That next week I was home in St. George.