My name is Dylan Hefflinger. I am from Defiance, Ohio attended and graduated from Defiance High School in 2004. I decided to attend Ashland University on a baseball scholarship. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out there so I ended up attending Owens Community College. After a couple of years at Owens I decided to transfer to Bowling Green State University. Here at BGSU I am pursuing a degree in Sport Management. I believe sport management is the perfect degree for me, as sports are my passion.
I have been in sports in some way my entire life. My favorite sports include: baseball, football, and basketball, which I’ve played my whole life. The reason I love these particular sports is because of how I was brought up by my parents, especially my father. Mostly everything I know about sports I learned from my father.
The top male and female athletes I would pay to watch would be Omar Vizquel and Dominique Moceanu. As an eleven year old boy I remember watching the Olympics and was amazed by everything Moceanu could do. It also probably didn’t hurt that it was easy on my eyes to watch her. When it comes to a male athlete, I chose Omar Vizquel for many reasons. I played shortstop, and idolized him growing up. He is my favorite player of all time. The last reason is that he played for my favorite team, the Cleveland Indians. To me the greatest thing I could do right now in sports would be something that most people wouldn't even consider. I wouldn't consider anything else, and that is to hit ground balls to Omar for as long as I could. I would love to just watch him field the ball with the ease he has his whole life. I just hope when he retires the Indians call him up and make him our manager. I’m just not a huge fan of Eric Wedge.
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Hi Dylan,
ReplyDeleteFirst, let me say that I loved what you wrote about Omar Vizquel. To this day, I wish we would never have traded him. When Jhonny was playing the position, it was so hard to watch him, knowing what it was like to see Omar. I know a lot of people would like to see the Indians hire Omar now that Wedge is out of the picture (I am with you--I was never a big Wedge fan either... maybe I mentioned that in class:-) But since Omar wants to play one more year, I guess he will not be in the market for any managerial positions. Anyway, shortstop was also my favorite position to play, even though most of my experience came in softball, rather than baseball. Since you are an Indians' fan, who do you think will be the next Cleveland manager?
Speaking of Dominique Moceanu, apparently she is still coaching gymnastics in the Cleveland area. She is coaching one of the gymnasts in another class that I teach.
I look forward to reading more of your blog entries.
Dr. Spencer