Evan Trausch '16 Recruiting Profile

Regardless of collegiate division, I will play to my highest ability. I am coachable, always help my team, and will lead by example. I am not necessarily interested in playing at the "best" baseball school, as I seek to play a high level of baseball and earn a top academic education. Of course I am interested in playing baseball forever, for whatever time period that may come to mean.

I have played travel and school baseball for almost ten years in a competitive Southern California environment. My coaches have taught me respect for the game, and to combine my physical and mental abilities to be 'game smart'. For example, I may not be the fastest player on the field, but I have always been one of the very best base-runners and as a hitter I get on base and drive in runs. Opposing coaches describe my batting approach as, "Every pitch is a two strike pitch, for Evan." Defensively I can play anywhere on the baseball field, and make routine and extraordinary plays. I take my play very seriously, and am a quick learner. I have always 'stood out' on any baseball field, without trying to. I am a team first player.

My parents work hard and come from humble backgrounds. They are both self-made. My maternal grandparents education was 2nd and 3rd grade elementary school in a small Mexican town (Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico). From a family of nine brothers and sisters, my mother worked hard to help her family, and graduated medical school in the top 10% of her class, completed internship and social service (charity). My father's parent's did not graduate high school. As an adult, and while working full time at night as newspaper pressman at San Diego Union Tribune, Dad attended community college, then University of California at San Diego, and University of San Diego Law School. Mom and Dad both practice their professions today. My maternal grandfather, Ignacio Quiroz, who worked almost his entire life, lives full time with our family, and celebrated his 96th birthday just last month. Every day I take inspiration from my family, and work hard in school and baseball.