Joseph Daru '11 Recruiting Profile

     
June 2012

I am a 5'10," 180 pound outfielder, and graduated high school June 2011 from IMG Baseball Academy in Bradenton, FL where I had been a full-time boarding student for the four years.  After a year at Sierra College in Rocklin, CA where I Red Shirted, I committed to NYIT beginning fall 2012 and will give my team 150% to help win. I also play on the Thai National Amateur Baseball (tournament) Team, have trained in Japan and played for Thailand in the 2011 Southeast Asia Games in Indonesia and World Baseball Class Qualifier in Taipei, November 2012.
IMG is a quality training center with a prep school on campus where we studied each morning for 4-5 hours then trained or scrimmage 4 hours a day, 5 days a week - and had games on weekends. Our program included weights, other strength training, mental conditioning and frequent scrimmages and games.  I have lived and played baseball in Thailand, Hawaii, Barbados, Ft. Lauderdale and Bradenton, and was lucky to have a lot of great experience playing against international teams, which I hope will help me excel as a player, teammate and person, and ultimately a pro player.
During my final IMG season (2011), I batted .299 with 2 doubles, 3 triples and 4 HR, and kept a 4-year cumulative high school GPA of 3.41.