John Bini<\/p>\n
Elementary Education Major<\/p>\n
Class of 2020
\nPosition: Pitcher<\/p>\n
What has been your favorite baseball memory?<\/strong> What is unique about Grove City’s baseball team?<\/strong> What should a perspective baseball player know?<\/strong> How was the program different from what you thought it would be coming in as a prospective athlete?<\/strong> What has your baseball experience been like over the past four years and how did baseball affect your collegiate experience?<\/strong> What advice would you give to someone who is on the edge of playing baseball at GCC?<\/strong><\/p>\n The most important thing for a prospective student is to not get stuck on the DIII tag that they are a joke. Come to the school, see how we play, talk to the coach. The team as a whole is really committed to baseball, everyone on the team loves baseball and loves to play, and the knowledge you get isn\u2019t something to can get anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Bini Elementary Education Major Class of 2020 Position: Pitcher What has been your favorite baseball memory? The trip every year in the spring to Florida. It\u2019s a long bus ride, about 15 hours, so being able to hang out with the guys on the bus, watching movies, making jokes, and playing games. When we get down there we stay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":6098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-baseball","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\nThe trip every year in the spring to Florida. It\u2019s a long bus ride, about 15 hours, so being able to hang out with the guys on the bus, watching movies, making jokes, and playing games. When we get down there we stay in a condo or a house. It\u2019s a great experience to get away from school with the guys on the team.<\/p>\n
\nOur coach is unique, Coach Royer has been coaching for a long time, he coached both DI and DII. He knows a lot about baseball and to get someone with that knowledge with a Division III program is unique, and how much he wants to teach the human being not just the athlete, he focused on character, respect, and responsibility.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s more important choosing the school over the sport. Choosing a solid school that’s not going to make you a better athletes but a better person overall is very important. Look into the school itself and not just the baseball team.<\/p>\n
\nWe had a coaching change freshman year, and he [Coach Royer] turned the whole program around. I thought it would be fun and not too serious and I\u2019d be here to get a good education. We are a team that\u2019s about getting better at the sport and putting the time in.<\/p>\n
\nIt is a time commitment, so with any sport you will have time you can dedicate to your friends, socially it has helped them a lot because you met different people, in your classes you’ll meet people from your same major. With baseball you have that commonality but you meet different people in different majors and with different perspectives. I\u2019m better structured during baseball season, so I can keep my class schedule and my study schedule. It’s helped me be more responsible<\/p>\n