Case Study: New High School Star

Wednesday, March 1, was the 3rd game of the Chino Hills Varsity Baseball season. In this game, versus West Covina, Jacob Hobson took the mound in search of increasing Chino Hills’ record to 2-1. Jacob Hobson was excellent in his pitching performance on Wednesday by going to four innings, allowing no runs, two hits, and striking out 3 hitters. All three of Hobson’s strikeouts were on curve balls and had West Covina’s hitters out in front all game. Jacob Hobson was so successful in his start due to his mixing of speeds between his fastball, curveball, and change-up. The offense for Chino Hills was phenomenal by racking up eight runs on ten hits to give Jacob Hobson the win. The offensive star of the game was Gavin Woodward who went 4-4 with a

The Gents captured five different spots on the Second Team, including senior Dakota Brown receiving honors both as an outfielder and as a relief pitcher. Joining Brown on the Second Team are sophomore catcher Chris Zapata, freshman shortstop Colten Maples, and junior Aaron Quintanilla as a designated hitter.

“When [Perez] pitches well, the rest of the team feeds off it,” third baseman Michelle Silva, ‘18, said. “We want to play just as strong as she is.”

Hector Olivera starting in left field, a questionable trade the Braves made for him. He has not shown much promise at the minor league level last season or during Spring Training. He hit is first home run over the weekend but it did not count since the game was rained out.

On Sunday May 15, 2016, The Stanford Cardinals suffered a major loss to the Washington Huskies. The Cardinals finish 13-35, but 0-24 in the PAC 12. The seniors had four runs all together but it wasn't enough. The defense was lacking having sophomore Hayley Snyder being pulled from the game. She was pulled because by the second inning, there have been five runs. Snyder was replaced with freshman Caroline Lee. Offensive wise, they were lacking but had no trouble getting on to the bases. The trouble was, no one seemed to get on homebase. The Cardinals catchers, Jessica Palaz led the team, and it was her game with Stanford. Her career record was the highest with 4 RBI’s in her senior year. The Cardinals were up by four in the bottom on the fourth,

“It was just being confident, working on my hitting, keep on driving the ball and going out there with confidence, don’t let the pitcher out-think you, just work on driving the ball," he said. "If he gets two strikes just work on putting out the play and see if you can beat anything out.”

Kowar worked quickly in the top of the fourth, getting a fly out and a line out before Jackson Lueck singled to left — the Noles’ third two-out hit of the night. What happened next is a pitcher’s

The youth that dominates the Cincinnati Reds roster may have been like a booster shot to Joey Votto’s intensity and competitive edge.

Tyler chose to skip college and go straight into the minor leagues, where he made a lot of mistakes

At only 17 years old Harper was attending the college of Southern Nevada and playing ball. In his first season, in a wooden bat league, Harper was batting .443 with 31 home runs and 98 RBI’s. In June 2010, Bryce Harper was drafted as the number one pick to the Washington Nationals. “The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Harper surpassed former big-league pitcher Alex Fernandez, who went fourth overall to the Chicago White Sox in 1990, as the highest-drafted junior college player” (nationals). Before the draft, the most common place to find Harper would be on the baseball field practicing his swing.

Albies was moved to second on June 7th, he made errors that the Braves front office were not expecting. In Triple A players should be fielding close to perfect and not committing any errors at all. The Braves thought he needed to iron some fielding out before moving on past Triple A in order to be successful.

Without a doubt I had always loved baseball since I was little and had always dreamed about playing with my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs. But here I was in 2016, my first year in the major leagues for baseball. I got signed to the Chicago Cubs in the first round of the draft as a shortstop, number 14. So here I am a starting player for the Chicago Cubs my rookie year in the majors. Who would have ever thought that Jacob Wyler from Belvidere, IL could be the starting shortstop for the Cubs.

On Monday Lauren went to go see the list of players who made tryouts. She pushed through the crowd of people standing by the bulletin board. Reading the list, Lauren looked for her name. There it was! Lauren! She looked a little closer, to see in a different column there were last names. It said her last name was Johnson which was not true.

This week, Noel and I met with his academic counselor to discuss his 10th-grade-course load and graduation. As of right now, he is on track for university admission. In fact, Noel is currently working towards the scholar and merit designations (something students can earn for going above the standard diploma). Also, his counselor advised us he may qualify for bright futures, depending on his upcoming SAT or ACT scores. She also went over Noel's current grades, which I've attached below, and his GPA. All in all, he's doing very well for just finishing up 9th grade. Most kids only have between 5-7 credits; Noel will have 11 credits before he starts10th grade (they need 24 credits to graduate with a standard diploma).

After receiving approval from the Institutional Review Board, participants will be recruited from Harrisburg 328 Public School District*. In publications, pseudonyms will be used. The method of recruitment will come from posters in all the schools within the district as well as reaching out to teachers and other instructors if they have students who fit the criteria of the study. Inclusion criteria included (1) students who are currently using an AAC system, specifically PECS, (2) in the Special Education sector in primary and secondary education classrooms, (3) chronological ages 11-17 years of age (4) and an official diagnosis of a developmental disability (DD) and (5) have a lunch period or recess period with access to