Morgan Roast '21 Recruiting Profile

Dear Coaches,

    My name is Morgan Roast. I am outfielder, catcher and utility player entering my senior year at Gorham High School in Gorham, Maine. I have been playing softball since I was only six years old and from the moment I touched that ball, I have been in love with the sport. I am now seventeen years old and my passion for the game grows more and more each day. In 2016, I started playing travel softball with a wonderful organization, the Southern Maine River Rats. One of my achievements in softball would be making varsity as a freshman and earning a starting position at shortstop. Throughout the years, I have become a utility player for both my varsity high school and travel teams. I can play anywhere on the field and have had experience at each of the positions except on the mound. Although, I love to play outfield. I love the energy and excitement the outfield brings from running as fast as you can to get the ball or diving as your last resort. Playing softball all these years, I have learned that any place I am put on the field I am happy with. I really do not mind at all where I play on any given day, I love every position for different reasons. One thing that I have learned about myself because of softball is to keep your mind open to anything that a coach is teaching you because many coaches have different ways of teaching, just when you think you know it all someone introduces something new.

    In both life and softball I have had to overcome many difficult obstacles. With softball, I have had to overcome hitting slumps which some lasted a game or two while some lasted more than that but I always learned how to pull myself out of it. Another obstacle that I had to overcome was an injury. In one of my pre-season varsity games last year a girl slid into my hand and I got some major cuts down to my bone. I was out for a few more games after that injury but I continued to be at every game all dressed up in my uniform cheering on my teammates which I think shows a big part of my character. 

    One club that I participate in at my school is Interact Club. This club provides tasks to the members in the club in order to help out the community. For example, if an elderly club needed help raking their leaves, interact club members would volunteer their time in order to help the community. I also participate in a club called Dream Factory. This club is a volunteer wish granting organization to children that have life threatening illnesses. I am also in Adopt-A-Classroom, this is where high school students go to one of the elementary schools to help the younger kids start thinking about what their future holds. During my junior year I was also apart of a group called RAM Readers. This is where a group of high school students volunteered our time during one of our study halls to go over to one of the elementary schools. We helped kids learn how to read, that may have had a hard time reading compared to the rest of their peers.

    One of my biggest aspirations in life is to become a FBI agent working with criminal investigations mainly, a homicide detective. Since I was younger, I have been interested in law and figuring out mysteries. When not playing softball, I spend my time looking at unsolved court cases trying to solve them myself. 

    So far in my high school career, I have had good grades. I try really hard in school in order to get good grades. Courses that I taking in the upcoming school year is AP Phycology, Statistics, English 12 Advanced, and Spanish 4.