In the past two years, two members of the baseball team faced cancer and a third had heart surgery, but now as the 2017 season approaches, FAU has been able to just focus on baseball.
Florida Atlantic baseball has had a quiet number of months leading up to its 2017 season compared to its previous ones, and the team couldn’t be more grateful.
CJ Chatham did make noise in June by becoming the highest drafted Owl in program history, but compared to the nightmares of what some of his teammates, and his coach had to face the previous two offseasons, his dream felt exactly like that — a dream.