Christian Rodriguez

Christian Rodriguez played baseball at Prairie View A&M University in 2017-2018 before getting cut from the team. Instead of transferring, he stayed at the school to complete his electrical engineering degree and found a love for coaching baseball. Christian talks about growing up in Cypress, Texas, being a Chicago sports fan, how he got into baseball, playing baseball at 2 different high schools in Cypress, and his recruiting process that led him to becoming a preferred walk-on at Prairie View A&M. He explains the try out process, the difficulty of making a baseball team as a walk-on, and getting cut on the last day, and his decision to stay at the school to pursue his degree. Christian describes how he got into coaching baseball through his younger brother, the age groups he coaches, what he likes about it, and how he balanced being a coach and a student. He details the joy he gets from coaching kids, his love for the recruiting process and watching his players sign letters of intents to play at colleges, his recent move to Fort Worth, Texas, after graduating college, currently working full-time, attending graduate school, and coaching, and his future in coaching.