Danny Ortiz '24 Recruiting Profile

Since I was a young child I always have dreamed big, and I always dreamed of shooting for the stars as a professional baseball player.  To go to college and study in engineering has always been a goal since my school would take me on field trips to different colleges. I love the colleges in Colorado, but I prefer to attend college in Arizona or Texas, I enjoy the warmer weather because I get more chances of practicing outside, and in Colorado I can't because one day its warm, the next day we have a blizzard outside.  I believe I can make a good candidate to the team because when it is time to practice and play I am all about the game, but when that is over I enjoy making teammates laugh, giving team support. I enjoy the teamwork and friendship in a team, because along the ways of my baseball career I learned that it takes a team, not just one single person to do all the work. My experience in playing baseball has taken me long ways and understanding new techniques, meeting different kind of players and learning new moves.  Playing out of state from Colorado taught me new rules in baseball, taught me new experiences, learning from playing in competitive to  playing in more friendly game, but I always wanted to put my 100% effort into the game.  In school my bonds that I would create with my fellow peers and teachers became so unique, every teacher wants to help, they talk to me as a friend and give me my best advice. In school my grades have always been in higher grades, my parents and sister always pushed me to do good, my sister finished high school a year early to continue into her career and I want to live up to that reputation she upholds and fall into that same great example. My baseball career is something I truly want to strive high in, and I want to put all my commitment and sacrifice into that.