About Me

I was born in the Dominican Republic, I lived there until I was 16 years old. When I was little I wanted to be a baseball player.  Baseball is a tradition in my family; for example, my grandfather, my uncle, my father, and I had played baseball. I had been playing since I was a little child. My father always told me that I had his support to play baseball; therefore’ he wants me to make the big leagues.

When I was 13 years old, I went to Panama as a member of the young national baseball team. It was an honor to represent my country doing something that I love to do. In fact, my family was proud of me. However, the trip changed my life and my young baseball career forever. At my first at-bat, I got hit by a pitch right on my throwing arm with a fastball around 92 mph; indeed, it hurt, but I didn’t mind and kept playing with that pain. Since that day I started to lose my arm power, and every time that I threw a ball, the pain got worse and worse. I kept that pain secret because I just wanted to play every game. After my lesson was discovered, my dream was over.

Three years after my injury, I came to the United States in search of a dream of overcoming and to help me be someone in life. At first, it was very hard to be able to adapt to a new culture, because I did not know the language and everything was very different from my country. Over time, I gradually became a college student, graduated from high school, then went on to college, entered the clip program and learned the language and then did ELS until everything happens and now I’m here about to graduate