From a little kid with no power to becoming the starting shortstop for the Texas Lutheran baseball team, Danny Yancelson, junior communication studies major accomplished a milestone this year he will remember forever.
On April 1st, Yancelson hit his first career homerun and this is no "April fool's joke." The TLU baseball team traveled to Alpine to take on Sul Ross State University for a three game series. Friday night Yancelson's family read the summary of the game on the tlubulldogs.com Web site and quickly called Yancelson.Their first question was, "Did you really hit a homerun?" The Yancelson family thought the article was playing an April Fool's joke on them too but the homerun was true.
Weights are moving, conditioning is increasing, and the strength of the team is becoming the number one goal for spring training. The team is in their second week of spring training and boot camp has just finished.
"We use boot camp to teach them what total effort is and how to depend on their teammates," Danny Padron, Head Football Coach, said.
Padron also expressed that they are trying to make the team develop positive work habits so that hard work comes naturally. Creating these habits should help increase intensity during practices and hopefully carry over to the games this season. Boot camp was broken up into five different stations with five different teams. Each station has a different drill to push the players to their full potential. At the end of boot camp the teams competed in the "dog fight" and if one person was not hustling that team was disqualified.
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