It was 1999. I sat in the library at Chico Senior High School during third period Monday through Friday as a “library aide.” My duties consisted of sliding the sections of the day’s newspaper into the bamboo scroll and placing it in the rack for students and faculty to read, replacing books according to catalog number, and meticulously searching the internet using Netscape or Lycos for anything and everything to do with high school football recruiting. Anything.
Flashback: A Typical Spring Tuesday Afternoon
On a typical Spring Tuesday, as a high school student-athlete, what is your day like?
It’s a typical Spring Tuesday as a high school student-athlete in California and the sun shines bright in the early afternoon now that the clocks have changed.
It’s baseball season. This means time to grab the various left-handed mitts I’ve accumulated over the years from the closet under the stairs of my family’s apartment and get ready to steal some bases. On any given day, that closet was home to shoulder pads, helmets, bats, cleats of all sorts, and whatever else made the journey from home to home over the years.
Aaron M. Plunkett (Publisher's Blog)
Hometown:
Chico, CA
