Baseball Team Ends Year on High Note
By MATT SHEARMAN

he 2008-2009 academic year was extra special for the recently graduated Lynn University baseball players. Along with completing their degrees, the players experienced a fairytale ending to their college athletic careers.

As these members of the national championship winning team move on to new ventures, they fondly remember their years at Lynn. Former Fighting Knight Douglas Toro, a human services major who hails from Venezuela, says that Anna Krift, professor of international relations, was his most influential professor because she made the lessons fun and interesting.

Toro states he will miss the daily contact with teammates, and if he could rewrite the script for his NCAA baseball career, he would plead with NCAA to allow him a fifth year of eligibility. Teammate Casey Sedley said he would have wanted to have been selected in MLB draft after winning the nationals.

Toro stated that if selected to play any other Lynn varsity sport, it would be soccer. Toro is currently in the MBA program at Lynn and aspires to own his own charitable organization in the near future.

Sedley openly admits to wearing his national ring to social events, and when asked to play for another athletics team Sedley would select the basketball team as he has the height that would help.

Sedley explains how he will miss playing for the baseball team but he is keen to experience other fruits that life has to offer. He adds that going on road trips will be one of the things Sedley will miss most about not being part of the team.