Western Kentucky usually doesn’t practice on Monday nights. But the Hilltopper coach Pawlowski told the catcher Wood several weeks beforehand that he was changing the schedule and that WKU would have a workout about 7:30 p.m. April 17.
That was the exact same time WWE would be hosting an event on campus at E.A. Diddle Arena. Wood didn’t think twice before answering his coach.
“He told me, ‘Well, you all can practice but I won’t be there,’” Pawlowski recalled this week.
Baseball is the first passion for Wood, a Hilltopper senior who’ll play his final home games this weekend.