Growing up in Louisiana, University of South Alabama baseball outfielder Travis Swaggerty always thought playing summer ball in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League would be "awesome," but playing for his country never entered his mind.
"I never even thought that would be a possibility, especially being from a smaller school that had never sent anyone there before," Swaggerty said of his USA Baseball Collegiate National Team invitation. "It's crazy because in high school before I was being recruited, I thought I would probably just go to school at LSU. I just blew up all of a sudden because a lot of guys who were better than me when we were younger got complacent.