Steven Pagan '15 Recruiting Profile

Everything is a process. If you want to play baseball in the pros, you have to do this, this, and this. If you want to play at the college level you have to do that, that, and that. The one thing holding you back is yourself. Everyone can become the best, but not everyone wants to work for it. I am here to work for it. To prove to myself that the end result is part of the process. I am inspired by many things, they come as often as they go. Inspiration can be a short lived moment of rush, which leads to short-term routines. I am shortly inspired by certain things, but what the real test to me is how often do I wake up wanting it. How often do I find myself holding back or letting it rip. The process is to construct yourself into wanting it all the time. Never holding back and always letting it rip. Throughout my years as a student-athlete I have learned many things regarding how difficult it is to be at the top. One question that has not been asked is why? Why am I here working for the future to be better? Why am I here playing day in and day out to become a better player? Why? Because it is part of the process. I am in a process that only ends when I choose it to end. The day I stop trying is when it ends. The day I stop wanting it is when it ends. The day where the controllable factors are pushed aside is when it ends. I am working for the future, but playing for now. I am striving to play a sport that has consumed my life. On and off the field I will make every curve-ball thrown at me turn into a fastball belt high. I am willing to go through this process and see my end result. I am no longer trying to achieve a dream, I am trying to achieve a goal.