Darrin Newton '23 Recruiting Profile

To My Future Coach:

I am a person who takes baseball very seriously.  Education and family are and will always be important in my life as well.  I have been raised to work hard and realize that God has given me a gift that I must keep working on and appreciate everyday.  Mom and Dad have always expected good grades and good moral decisions.  I always try to remember that what is right is always the best choice.  I consider myself to have feelings for others and seem to have always tried to watch out for "the little guy"  and persuade others to treat them right.  I guess this is because I have always towered over most kids my own age.  

In college, I would love to play baseball along with earning a degree in conservation.  I love the outdoors and would love to spend my college life playing baseball and then learning more about conservation law.  As I am hunter and fisherman, I find this job would be very rewarding and help citizens to do what's right with nature, so we will always have that perfect pond to catch a bass and that perfect green woods to harvest "the big one". 

I love the idea of team.  I feel I would be an asset to a college baseball team, as I enjoy making sure the field is just right.  In jr. high and high school, I would always help with the field following the games.  I am a pitcher and a catcher so I like to help make sure the mound and home plate are just what I like.  I take pride and definitely feel more comfortable when I know that I and the team have worked to make the field, our home, just the way we like it.  

I feel like I would be a good choice for a collegiate team because of my commitment to:  baseball, an education, and hard work.  I also know that I will have to help pay for college and this will make me appreciate it and work harder than some who don't have any responsibility.   My parents shared with me that I started T-ball when I was 3.  I was suppose to be 5 but they slipped me in because of my size.  That is where it all started.  Since then, I have lived baseball.  I have played on travel ball teams and have trained weekly since 5th grade.   During the summers, I would play city ball and travel ball at the same time.  When travel ball was over, I would be on the hunt for another team who might need a sub to finish out their season.  I always had luck to find one.  

It is a sad day when the season ends, and even though I still train, what a long wait for the next step on the field.