Just happened to run into a link to this on the Cal Poly Facebook page and I thought it would be of interest to some here:

Engineering Students Contribute to Cal Poly Baseball’s Historic Season

Taylor Chris (mechanical engineering), Jake Lesinski (biomedical engineering), Tommy Pluschkell (general engineering) and Tim Wise (electrical engineering) were members of an historic Cal Poly team that went 47-12, won the Big West Conference championship and hosted an NCAA regional championship tournament for the first time.

During a season that saw the Mustangs draw 15 crowds in excess of 2,000 fans to Baggett Stadium, all four engineering students agreed balancing baseball and schoolwork required plenty of quiet time hitting the books.

“You have to concentrate on putting the time in when you can and expect a few late nights where you’re staying up all night just to catch up,” said Taylor Chris (Gilroy, Calif.), a junior relief pitcher who finished with a 4-1 record, five saves and a 1.61 earned run average.

Lesinski, a freshman catcher from Huntington Beach, Calif., said he made through his biomedical engineering class lineup by “communicating with my professors like crazy and constantly working out times to complete work and turn in projects.”

For Pluschkell and Wise, the demands of the sport and studies, especially during spring quarter, pitch a shutout with some aspects of student life.

“There’s really no time for anything else between baseball and class, so it’s simple — no social life,” said Wise, a senior outfielder from Camarillo, Calif., who hit .289 with 20 runs batted in.

 Pluschkell, a junior infielder from Pleasonton, Calif., added: “When we come here as freshmen, coach (Larry) Lee tells us there are three facets of life — there’s sports, there’s school and there’s your social life. And in order to be successful, you’re going to have to give up one of the three. That means the social life.”

After the successful season, all four agreed the sacrifices were worth it.

“We love baseball and we love engineering, too,” Chris said. “So we just have to find a way to make it work.”  

From this page:  https://ceng.calpoly.edu/featu...lls-historic-season/