If you weren’t watching Tyler Strafaci’s last round at the US Amateur, I’m not sure what else you happened to being doing, sports-wise. When the graduating golfer graced our televisions that Sunday night, it’s not like anything else was on. Maybe Sunday night baseball, but odds are my Cubs and your Braves (or whoever you fancy in America’s pastime) were not playing that night. But that’s immaterial. What matters is what Strafaci represented.
For the first time since Sam Crawford and the Georgia Tech baseball team walked off of the field at Plainsman Park on March 10th, a Tech athlete was finishing up a competition.