Andrew Martinez '24 Recruiting Profile

What inspires me to keep doing what I love is overcoming the adversity I overcame in the past 2 years me starting high school baseball and high school education.  Something I overcame was not being able to be on the field because of my grades in middle school so that took a huge toll on me once I started high school everyone thought I was going to be the same person I was the previous 2 years but I couldn't let myself be like that no more, yeah I made a few mistakes till this day but its nothing I can't move forward from. Something I really feel happy I overcame was my athleticism I use to be overweight for a baseball player once I knew this was what I wanted to do in the future and be great at I had to do something about it. I grinded all 2021 summer to get in shape I did whatever took to get me to perform my best and to look my best while doing I went from 230 pounds down to 194 in the matter of May- august. I was finally able to tell I was getting stronger by lifting in the weight room and bumping up a few pounds on the dumbells.  So I know what it takes to get to where I want in life a lot of hard work and sacrifice that comes with being great.  one of my favorite quotes is" All greatness comes from suffering". Academically wise I didn't know what I wanted to do till this year (2022) and that is to study (Culinary Arts) primarily and fall back on I.T (Information Technology,).