. After the pins-and-needles wait for an EA decision, I can finally announce my son’s college situation. Barring a financial aid debacle (ya just never know until ya know), Young Krak ('08 RHP) will attend Trinity University and follow in the baseball footsteps of Webster sons Jason Armstrong, Drew Bignall, and Evan Jones (whose parents have been immensely helpful along the way!).
As you might imagine, trying to build any interest in a player that has lived in South Korea for the past 12 years was not an easy task. It was just me and him, in the middle of an Asian metro area of 20 million strangers, throwing wherever we could whenever we could.......in parking garages, in alleys, against cement walls, in the old cleaning lady’s cabbage garden, and sometimes even on real baseball fields!
Fortune smiled on us, however, as Coach Scannell was made aware of him at the last Stanford Camp and was then able to key on him at the HeadFirst camp a day later. He pitched exceptionally well, and even had Rob Kremer’s son to catch for him! We were able to go down and visit the campus (gorgeous place) and spent several hours talking over things with Coach Scannell and Coach Smith, the pitching coach. They gave support to his application throughout the process and are very excited to have him. They have a lot of belief in him and big plans for continuing development.
Mrs. Krak and I couldn’t be happier, even though we will be devastated for awhile when we drop him off and then get on with the 20-hour trip back to Seoul.........definitely bittersweet stuff! (Maybe I should get a job driving one of those tourist boats up and down the Riverwalk...hmmm....) Thanks SO MUCH to those of you whom have offered to help look after him!!
Trinity is a great academic school (ranked #1 master’s university in the West sixteen years’ running), has beautiful dorms, is in an interesting and intriguing city, warm/hot climate, super-friendly kids, smallish student body, major baseball facility upgrades in the works.....it ‘fits’ all the criteria Tristan wrote out a couple of years ago. AND, some of the nicest people on the HSBBW have/had players at Trinity!
This site has been an immense help. Without everything I’ve learned on the HSBBW, and the earnest support and encouragement of numerous websters, there’s NO way we would have ever figured out what we needed to do to make this dream come true. Thanks to all who have freely offered tips, advice, and online smiles over the past several years!
And to all who have asked 'how do I get noticed?', if we can do it from the other side of the world, YOU can do it, too!!
