Elijah Galindo '20 Recruiting Profile

Ever since I was a kid I knew baseball was for me. With my 3.91 gpa I believe I am a fairly smart kid and I wanted a sport that needed my brain along with my physical capabilities. As Yogi Berra said “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” I am a natural born leader and I love to help out my teammates with anything they need help with, mentally and physically. My coaches always tell me that I am always the smartest kid on the field no matter who we’re playing. 

My father is the one who taught me how to play baseball as he was a pitcher and shortstop when he was in high school. In 2012 it was my father, brother, and I driving to my sisters softball game when he got shot. A couple months later he was fine but a year later he collapsed in our hallway and had an avm rupture in his brain. Since then he has been in the hospital unable to speak. That has definitely been the hardest thing I had to go through in my entire life. That is the thing I have had to overcome to be the best baseball player and man I could be.