A Day In The Life Of... Connor Hill (Class Of 21' Infielder/Pitcher At Tusculum University D2)

What's up guys, I'm Hype, and this video is sponsored by Skillshare. But more on that later on this video. My name's Connor Hill, play third slash pitcher, class of 2021. Play at Tuscaloosa University, and this is a day in my life. Well, I've pretty much played every sport since I could walk, and baseball was included. And I really started playing competitive baseball whenever I was like, probably going to the middle school. So about 11, 12 was whenever I really started like focusing on it. And I mean, I just, I was good at it. And I was like, I didn't want to play any other sports. So I just focused on baseball. Well, I picked Tuscaloosa University because Coach Steele over there, he's just a cool dude. He said that I remind him of him whenever he was my age. And it feels like home. Campus is kind of small. It's more of a tight knit community. So everyone knows everybody and the field is gorgeous. And it's just, that's just amazing to me. It feels like home. My recruiting process was kind of weird at first because going into junior year, I actually committed to Wake Tech Community College first. And then I decommitted because of COVID and I didn't know how everything was going to play out. And I called Tuscaloosa, I called Coach Steele and we talked for like an hour and he wanted me to come on a visit. So I went on a visit, I sent him a lot of video and it was just, it just kicked from there. It was really a no brainer for me. I feel like my greatest strength is definitely my knowledge of the game. I feel like I know the game pretty well and my attitude. I'm pretty, I'm pretty happy go lucky kinda. You know, if I strike out four times, you know, I'm gonna be a little mad at first but then I just try and pick myself up, pick everybody else up. And also my power. I feel like my bat's got a lot of juice and I can help score some runs. And then my weakness I'd have to say is my speed for sure. I mean, I'm a big guy. 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Skillshare is created specifically for learning, meaning there's no ads and they're always launching new premium classes so you can stay focused and follow wherever your creativity takes you. Thank you Skillshare for sponsoring this video. Now let's get back to the episode. My top three favorite players would have to be Mike Trout, for sure. Definitely Otani, he's exciting to watch and Jacob deGrom, it's like watching someone who's not human pitch and hit, it's ridiculous. I definitely have, before every game, I go and get Subway. Doesn't matter if it's away, if it's home, it's gotta be Subway, I gotta get a spinach wrap with three cookies. That's gotta happen. And then before I go up to the play, I always tell myself I'm better than the pitcher and I'm just, I'm the best one on the field and I can do it. That's pretty much the only rituals I got. My biggest thing is don't worry about the guy next to you. I mean, yeah, there's gonna be guys that are better than you, there's gonna be guys that are going to bigger, better schools, but you ain't really gotta worry about that. Just, in my opinion, just email coaches, call coaches. The more you call them, the better, because they'll see that you want to actually go to their program, not just emailing you. And just work hard. I mean, take as much video as you can. More hitting videos you send on Twitter and you send to coaches, the better. That's how I got recruited. That's how I feel like it's starting to turn into with the whole COVID and videos and coaches not being able to go out and stuff. Oh my God! Oh! 87. 89. Clip deck. There we go. Might be over. I'm not throwing you another one. All right, so we started off the day at 11 a.m. in the DPC batting cages. We got some tee work in, got some front toss, got a little bit of overhand. Then after that, about 12-ish, we went to the weight room at DPC, did a little leg day, did some back squats, front squats, goblin squats, did a little bit of lunges and RDLs. And then after that, we came out to my high school and hit some front toss, some overhand, and took some ground balls at third, worked on some double plays, some short hops, some throws from across the diamond. And then we went over the first and did a little bit of the same thing. Double plays, feeds the first, and that about wraps it up. It's the day of my life.