Though he may be preparing for his senior football season at the moment, Ooltewah’s Jackson McClain knows his future is in baseball.
The senior left-handed pitcher, a 6-foot-4, 205-pounder, recently committed to Yale University to play baseball.
“I had been traveling to all the Ivy league schools since the winter and the last camp I went to was in Palo Alto, Calif. at Stanford’s all-star camp,” McClain said.
Yale was among those with representatives watching the games.
“It was about a month-long process before they called on Aug. 1 and told me what it takes to be a pitcher at an Ivy League school and then made the offer over the phone for the first pitching slot class of 2017,” he said. “I had been looking for a school that could challenge me academically as much as athletically.”