Post by The Cats on Jun 17, 2019 20:04:09 GMT -5
Western Carolina is Anthony Silkwood’s next stop on his dream journey
Some may call Anthony Silkwood’s journey a saga. But to him, it’s just pursuing a dream.
A baseball dream that’s taken him from Marquette Catholic High, to the U.S. Marine Corps and deployment in the Middle East, to Quincy, then Champaign. It’s taken him to an operating table for Tommy John surgery as well.
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And now he’s heading to Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. And while pursuing his baseball dream has taken a large portion of his attention, Silkwood and friends took time out recently to help in sandbagging the Nutwood levee near a friend’s family farm at Fieldon.
read more here www.thetelegraph.com/sports/article/PETE-HAYES-Western-Carolina-is-Anthony-14002330.php
