Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Out With A Bang

Photo by: Dianne Attyah

It was the bottom of the 9th with one out in the trinity fall World Series. A senior named Kevin Jackson step up to the plate with the sweep on the line. We were up two games to none and one more to end the series.  Are hard work and dedication this off-season all led up to this one moment, this one chance to take home the victory.  He stepped into the batters box and swung at the first pitch. BOOM! The ball was well stuck climbing higher and higher towards the fence. Off the bat we all knew the ball was gone. He just hit a walk off homerun to win the series.
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I couldn’t haver ask for a better way to end our baseball off season. I feel that through the month of October we grew as a team and are hungry for the season to start. The NCAA only allows us to practice as a team for sixteen times during the fall. Now since we have finished are fall practices we are on our own to become bigger, stronger, and healthier for the season in January. We have to report back to the baseball field January 9th to defend are conference champion tiled.
They say this year we have one of the biggest baseball squads they have ever had but also tons of talent. Saying this they will be making cuts for the spring season. Which puts more pressure on us to dedicate are time and effort to be the best baseball player on the field. The off-season was a great first impression opportunity but now we have to back up are skills and bring them to the spring season. Let the Games begin

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Off Season

By: Beau Attyah
It’s finally the month of October! The month that baseball starts back up. It’s the first step towards the baseball season.  We practice on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from two o’clock to seven forty-five. We also practice on Sunday’s form eleven to four. I have never had a practice that lasted for five and a half hours but this is a great change to make us all better baseball players. If we want to defend our conference championship title we have be perfect and practice makes us perfect.
But coming to a well-known university with great expectations academically it is tough to manage your schoolwork with baseball. With the long hours of off season practice you learn how to prioritize your time and be successful on and off the field.  Recently we had are first off-season game against Blinn College in Brenham Texas. We played two very tough games back to back. We lost the first game but won the second. During the games we played with a lot of intensity and aggression that really made are coach happy. I got to play in my first college game with one at bat and caught the last inning of the game. It was an awesome experience and a time I will never forget. In a week and half we have are fall world serious best of 5 games, which I heard, is the best part of the off-season. I cannot wait for the competition to begin. 

By: Beau Attyah










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Monday, October 4, 2010

Friends


Going from high school to college is one of the most difficult transitions in your lifetime.  It’s the time when you are released form your leash back at home and off to a whole new life style. Leaving your friends and family back at home is very hard but college is when you get to start all over and make strong bonds with new friends. When I arrived on Trinity’s campus I didn’t know one person. I was nervous and hesitant to make new friends. At first I thought I was the only person that didn’t know anyone but I was wrong.  Through Trinity baseball I quickly made new friends, which helped me adapt to the new environment. We all quickly became close to each other and hang out all the time.  I feel if I didn’t have trinity baseball I would have never found such a great group of guys.
These past six weeks have been so much fun hanging out and working out as a team. I feel like we are already a new family. When meeting the upper classman I thought they didn’t want anything to do with me but I was wrong. They treat me like I have been a friend of theirs forever. The Trinity baseball program not only has a really good team but also has a very strong relation ships with each other. I couldn’t have been luckier to be in the position I’m in today.  Some of my really close friends form baseball can be seen from the slide show.  To be viewed in a larger screen click on this link.



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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Beginning

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Since arriving at Trinity I have felt I was home again.  Everyone here is so friendly and helpful. Upon my arrival I knew that I was going to have to crack down on the schoolwork and compete for a spot on the baseball team.  The Trinity baseball program has grown over the years and is a very powerful commanding team. The team is strongly disciplined and has a history of great success, while developing professional baseball players. With a great recruiting class this season consisting of 14 freshmen, I knew there was going to be a tremendous amount of competition and hard work. Right off the bat we got down to work with our lifting program. We started the lifting program over the summer to get a jump-start before we arrived at trinity, so in September we weren’t behind the upper classman. To keep up our great success our program follows a strict intense workout as well as a healthy diet.  To follow our daily workouts and team updates you can check out our baseball blog "Team Blog".
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  Recently this month I had surgery on my leg and, as a result, I cannot lift, run, hit, or throw. This is going to throw me back from the other freshman trying to compete for a spot on the team. These next two months I’m going to face the biggest challenge with trying to impress the coaches. When I’m healthy and able to play again I’m going to have to work twice as hard as everyone else. I can’t wait for fall ball to begin.

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Monday, September 6, 2010

The Road to Trinity Baseball

*Beau Attyah
Ever since I was a kid, I have always wanted to play college baseball and possibly even continue down the road with professional ball. Throughout my childhood, however, I told myself that I only wanted to play at a big division one school just like all those teams on ESPN. So when I started my junior year in high school, the biggest year for recruiting, I attended well over twenty different division one schools looking for the perfect fit. Sadly, I honestly didn’t find one - not even one - as right for me. I told myself that maybe baseball in college just wasn't for me and that I should just look for somewhere I can receive college experience. 
As the year wound down, I just couldn’t let my dreams of becoming a college athlete slip through my fingers. I expanded my options of not just playing baseball at a division one level, and researched thousands of other schools from DI through JC programs. One school that really jumped out at me was Trinity University. Even though I had no prior knowledge about Trinity, something hit me - it could have been their colors or the mascot - I just don’t know, but I knew this was the school for me. When I quickly researched the school and the baseball program, I found out that the academic level was going to be a stretch. While applying to Trinity I talked to the coaches and fell in love with the program, and knew that this was my number one choice. My dream became a reality when I realized I would be attending Trinity University. Ever since I got here it’s been the perfect fit for me and I cannot wait to continue here for the next four years.




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