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Zach Daw

Formerly Guiford College. Now Charlotte, NC

Former Quaker Pitcher...Currently working around the country for College and Pro Sports.

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Two Parter: Braves/Red Sox Collapse and Jersey Curses

With the epic conclusion of the MLB season this past Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, may go down in the record books as one of the best nights in the history of professional baseball. Unfortunately for many fans on the East Coast, this night will instead go down as a night... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Advice For the New Quaker Athletes

Ever since I graduated last May, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have been key in helping me keep tabs on all my peeps from Guilford, most of whom I won’t see again in person until a homecoming of reunion event. While this is a great perk of the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Summer 2011: A Little Change in Plans - July 2011

So a few weeks ago, I made mention that my future plans included a year-long stint at Florida State University as I pursued a Masters in Sports Management. Well...a funny thing happened on the way to Tallahassee and that is no longer the plan. I have been spending the last... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Summer 2011: The Original Plan...May-June 2011

(Note: This article was written for the Morganton News Herald in June 2011) One of my favorite parts about writing this blog last year was the therapy that went along with it. During my senior year at Guilford, it offered the opportunity to frame both my successes and stresses that... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Guess Who's Back

Hey everyone. First off, let me apologize for disappearing this past summer. The last four months have simply been insane since graduation. I would like all of my readers to know that the Blog once again has a pulse and I'll be posting again on a semi-regular basis. Considering the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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On May 7th, 2011, four years of studying, stressing, and occasional sleepless nights all came to its stunning conclusion as I, along with over 400 classmates and nine of my teammates, received our degrees from Guilford College. The entire weekend was an emotional one as I was thrilled to have... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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End of the Road

My apologies for missing out on last week’s article as I was legally identified as a “missing person” as I was lost under a pile of tax forms, economic data, and my horribly-written notes studying for my last round of exams at Guilford College (or with a little bit of... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Four years is a long time. I’ve been fortunate that my time at Guilford has not had the eternal feeling that loomed over my four years of high school. With less than a month left before I graduate from college, I am spending about half that time preparing for my... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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The Road to Wrestlemania

As I mentioned in the intro to last weeks article, I spent last weekend making a five-and-a-half hour trip to Atlanta with two of my friends to attend what is considered to be the Super Bowl of professional wrestling. While I’m sure some of you may be laughing right now... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Baseball Blog (Generic, Yet Informative Title)

Tis a magical time of the year. A time where the winter and fall sports take their rightful places in the backseat of the sports world and the baseball season takes center stage. As I write this I am sitting in a house deep in Braves Country, on the outskirts... Continue reading

Posted Apr 2, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Charlie Sheen May Be Onto Something With This Winning Thing

Winning. This term has been thrown around a lot recently mostly do to the on-air antics of Mr. Charlie Sheen but despite his apparent insanity, you can’t blame the guy for seeking a positive outlook on his life that seems to be falling apart. If the Wild Thing is simply... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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The Best Sports Season of the Year - March Madness

(Written 3/5/11) In the south, and especially in Burke County, we are about to enter one of our favorite sport seasons of the year as the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament will begin on Thursday, followed by the “Big Dance” a week later when the NCAA Tournament begins. However, before we... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Short-Term Memory

Back in my elementary school days, I remember a time where I was going through academic screenings to figure out what my “Academic Level” would be upon entering the 4th Grade. One of the biggest flaws these screeners mentioned was my weak “short-term memory.” While this appeared to be a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 19, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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First Week of the Season

Losing sucks. Plain and simple. Growing up, you learn the old cliche that “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game,” and while this is a true statement referring to how to handle a loss, there isn’t an athlete on earth who doesn’t feel accomplished... Continue reading

Posted Feb 19, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Your puny ballparks are too small to contain my gargantuan blasts for I am the King of the Diamond! Let There Be a Grand Clubhouse Feast! Bring Me the Finest Meats and Cheeses in All the Land!!!!

(Alternate Title: Sportscenter Overload) - For full enjoyment, please check out all the links... ESPN’s Sportscenter is a staple of almost every red-blooded American male’s daily television routine. Whether it’s for 15 minutes or two hours, guys always know that one of the five or six ESPN networks will be... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Report from McBane Field - First Week Back

(Written January 21) As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Mother Nature was quite a fickle mistress during my Winter Break as she made pitching and conditioning a major challenge during my winter break. Unfortunately for the rest of my team, Mother Nature decided to follow me back to Greensboro.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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When a Hat Does More than Hide Your Bed Head

(Written January 11th) Now that I am back on the campus of Guilford College, this blog can now retake its original theme of discussing the life of an NCAA student athlete. Ironically, with all the winter weather the southeast has seen this past week there has been very little “student”... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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(Blog Note: I wrote this two weeks ago and forgot to post it so some of the references to the weather may be inaccurate. Currently I'm sitting on the couch watching the BCS Championship Game next to my best boy Monty. Meanwhile, it continues to snow outside my apartment window.)... Continue reading

Posted Jan 10, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Why Didn't I Play Football?

First off, Big Props to by fellow blogger Kyle Wooden (http://blogs.guilford.edu/wooden) for coming up with the novel concept of writing player profiles for the entire team. Wish I had thought of that. Check out the first one at the link above about how #1 Jesse DeSanto loves to "churn da... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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My Top 50 Songs

Well, my iPod is broken so I will soon be forced to wipe it's memory and/or get a new digital music device. I wasn't sure where else to post this, but I figured maybe some blog readers would get a kick out of this. I have always been supr OCD... Continue reading

Posted Jan 1, 2011 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!

MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY CHANUKAH/HAPPY KWANZAA EVERYBODY! As I write this entry at 10pm on Christmas Eve, I do so while partaking in one of my favorite Christmas traditions: 24 Hours of A Christmas Story on TBS, a tradition that began for me about five years ago. Over the 24 period that... Continue reading

Posted Dec 24, 2010 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Annnnd....We're back

Hey everyone. Sorry for being visibly absent here on the blog but, to say the least, the last month has maybe been the busiest of my life. The following is a rundown of the major events of the month of December (pre-Christmas of course.) ACC Football Championship As an ACC... Continue reading

Posted Dec 21, 2010 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Since this is the week of Thanksgiving, I have found it appropriate to utilize the blog to send a big “Thank You” to all of those who’ve been keeping up with my writing since this began in September. When this began, I honestly expected this blog to be mostly for... Continue reading

Posted Nov 28, 2010 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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A Suit For Monty

Hello again, everyone! It's good to be back so let's get right to it... At the ACC we are about a week-and-a-half away from our biggest weekend of the year in the form of the ACC Football Championship Game in Charlotte. Last year was my first dip into the festivities... Continue reading

Posted Nov 22, 2010 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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Zach Daw: Pitcher, Student, Hockey Nut

It was a typical May evening in 2002 where 13 year-old Zach Daw was scanning through the channels and came across a a Carolina Hurricanes’ broadcast. It was the first game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs with the Hurricanes facing-off against the New Jersey Devils and I decided to... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2010 at Baseball: Zach Daw

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