My son just graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and I would like to take the opportunity to thank Tom Rizzi (AKA TRHit) for all of his help.
We live in Wisconsin, Hopkins is in Baltimore. We hooked up with Tom and College Select and he went way out of his way to help us.
Started out by us signing up for his show case, but the day we were to leave for the showcase my Son came down with Mono.
Tom could have simply said to bad, instead he gave us 2 options, 1) refund our money (he didn't need too), 2) have my son join his travel team for a tournament. Since my son really wanted to go to college on the east coast, my son joined Tom for a tournament. Tom then invited my son to play in the PG Wooden Bat tournament in Jupiter.
After the tournament Tom called several coaches he knew personally on my sons behalf, recommending my son to them. One of the coaches he call was Coach Babb at Johns Hopkins.
If you know these High Academic schools, they get 20,000 applications for 2,000 openings every kid with a 4.0+ GPA. You need something to set you apart from the other 20,000 applicants. With Coach Babbs help, my son got accepted and was awarded a Bloomberg scholarhip that covered full tuition (35K+/year).
A couple of injuries, including Tommy Johns surgery (and playing behind a couple of DIII All-American Outfielders) made his baseball experience less then successful. But that drives home what many of the old timers on this site say, pick a school that you will love if your baseball ends short.
With the coach writing a recommendation, my son got accepted to JHU and graduated in 4 years with a major in Neuroscience and is going on for his PHD in either Neuroscience or Biomedical Engineering.
Anyway we wish to express our deepest gratitude to Tom. I am not sure any of this would have been possible without his help.
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