John "Austin" Rotramel '16 Recruiting Profile

My main goal is to gain more experience against tougher competition. I would also like to gain more knowledge about the game and take my abilities as far as possible.

I believe that my character is very different compared to the characters of other recruits due to the fact that I understand that this is my future I am dealing with. I know for a fact that I want to be successful, therefore, taking every aspect of this game as a joke is definitely not the way to get me where I want to go. That being said, there is times to joke and times not to joke, I understand that team chemistry is extremely important to a teams success, but you have to know when its time to get serious.

As an athlete I am always open to advice, I will never take an opportunity that I have to better myself for granted. I have also been told that I am a quick learner, a coach only has to correct me once, almost every time after I receive the advice I will utilize it to the best of my abilities in order to execute it in practices and games.

I take academics very seriously because education is extremely important to ones future. Even if I able to one day make this sport my profession, once I retired from it I cannot just kick back and relax for the rest of my life, I need an occupation and for that I need a college degree.