“Never confuse a single failure for a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m Cody Boone, junior RHP at Radford University and I want to help other college baseball players through struggles that I have personally gone through, as well as tips and suggestions to be the best version of yourself on the field and in the classroom. As a division 1 baseball player, my life isn’t as glamorous as it seems. Baseball is a 30+ hour per week job at this level, and on top of practicing, lifting and conditioning, we have to go to class and find time to get all of our work and studying done. While nobody is perfect, whether we like to think so or not, we mess up. Some days are harder than others and as you find yourself sitting in class dosing off or staring at your homework debating whether or not to do it, I hope this blog will give you the advice you need to push through. Each week I’m going to cover a different topic that will help with these lulls in the season and life in general. While a lot is going on for college baseball players this time of the year with the season starting for us and all, I hope you will take the time once a week to join me and take this journey of being a student-athlete with me. Some of the topics include communication, knowing your worth outside of the baseball field, making the best of your mistakes and failures, dealing with an injury, and sacrifices in your social life. The goal of this blog is to be brutally honest and upfront with the way that I feel about certain things, but without honesty, it’s impossible to grow as a person and athlete.

Before we go forward, I would like to introduce myself. As I said, I’m Cody Boone and I’m a junior Right-Handed Pitcher at Radford University. I’m a marketing and management double major and have joined a few clubs throughout my time here at Radford. I am a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council for the Big South Conference, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as well as a member of Beta Gamma Sigma which is an academic “fraternity” within the business school. While I have a lot on my plate with baseball, I need to have other commitments to get your mind off baseball. After all, it is a game of failure and it can be extremely frustrating at times.