Vincent Pennisi '23 Recruiting Profile

My goal is to play college baseball and I have a plan to make it happen. It took the struggles of my sophomore year to understand what I was missing. I would love to say I started every game, but that isn’t true as I was benched after a few weeks. The same thing happened during summer ball as well. First I asked my coaches how I could improve, and they all said work on your fielding. So I studied and watched our starting infielders, and worked one-on-one with a local baseball coach. I discovered that I didn’t have the confidence in my abilities, and I was too scared of making a mistake. This changed my thinking, I thought if I want to start on varsity I need to be relentless and have no fear of failure, I need to act like I’m the best player out on the field.

So that’s the plan, hustle, sweat, and bleed until I convince myself that I have put in the work to be the best. I feel that I have accomplished that goal, I’ve been playing fall ball to further my skills and haven’t sat on the bench all season. So with every setback, challenge, or wall that blocks my path, I will adapt and persevere relentlessly until I can say I have shattered that wall. I’m always ready to learn something new from every experience I have whether it be in baseball, in the classroom, or just everyday life.