Ryan Byrd '14 Recruiting Profile

The dream of playing college baseball has slowly dwindled. The reason for this is because dreams are just ideas that you will never reach. It has now become a goal of mine to play at the college level. I made this a goal for myself because whenever I achieve or meet my goal, it is never good enough for me, and I want more. I expect greatness of myself and if I do not achieve, I try until I get it perfect. When choosing a college, I do not look at just the baseball aspect, I want to find a school that will challenge me both academically, and athletically. I am currently coming off of Tommy John surgery, and my rehab is going great. This surgery had not only humbled me, but had also taught me not to take anything for granted. Also it has taught me a great deal of discipline, and self motivation. I had to be dedicated to do my physical therapy every day for eight months. And even though it got boring, and I was not seeing any results, I had to trust that everything I was doing was for a specific purpose. And now that I am throwing again, I now see why the doctors and physical therapist had me do what I did.