| It has been an interesting road for pitcher Jeremy | | | | reclaimed his career. He only went an undefeated |
| Sheehan. Going from a high school pitcher that had to | | | | seven and zero with a 3.4 ERA. |
| endure the customary career ending Tommy John | | | | He then goes on in his second year to have an ERA |
| surgery to baseball scholarships and now becoming | | | | of 1.8 and finished 6 and 2 while both losses were |
| the Ace of his college team. He attributes the injury | | | | the results of unearned runs. He earned all |
| to motivating him to work hard enough to improve | | | | conference honors and then he began to get looked |
| his strength and increase his speed enough to get a | | | | at by larger colleges. With interest from a number of |
| baseball scholarship. | | | | larger colleges he really felt the need to go to a |
| Sheehan claims, "It was tough because I was a | | | | smaller school so he could get the starts and innings |
| senior and all of my friends were going away to | | | | he needed to continue to improve. He decided on |
| college and I was stuck at home. But I just kept | | | | Centenary as they offered him and 80% baseball |
| working hard as I knew I couldn't be done with | | | | scholarship. Baseball scholarships are normally only |
| baseball." | | | | given in fractional percentages like this even for the |
| Sheehan was a 2003 graduate that spent his | | | | best of players. The colleges are so limited on the |
| freshmen year at Johnson Community College | | | | number of baseball scholarships that they are forced |
| rehabbing his arm. It allowed him to get a jump on | | | | to divide the total amount among players. |
| the classroom while building back the strength in his | | | | As his senior years approaches he can look back and |
| arm. Then he joined Cowley College, a small school in | | | | remember the conquest he had over his injury and |
| Arkansas City, Kansas on a baseball scholarship and | | | | where he is today. |